A playful take on the traditional 'This Little Piggy' nursery rhyme that will delight young children; perfect for parents to read aloud.[...]
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English.
Margaret Armstrong, a prolific book cover designer and illustrator, spent a few years travelling around the western United States at the beginning of the twentieth century and in 1911 she was one of the first women to descend to the floor of the Grand Canyon. There she discovered some new flower spe[...]
Fox is a picture book in a class of its own. A compelling drama about friendship, loyalty, risk and betrayal - a story that is as rich for adults as for children. A ground-breaking picture book that has been translated into many languages and won prizes and awards around the world. Dog has only one [...]
The Dream of the Thylacine is a lament for a lost species, and a celebration of the Australian landscape. It interposes arresting text and images of the last known thylacine in a concrete cage with sweeping colour paintings of the animal in its natural environment. Intense, poetic and beautiful, thi[...]
If you could live a different version of your life, would you take the chance? From the award-winning author Margaret Wild, this spellbinding story places two young women at the turning point in their lives, and each must choose to accept the life she has, or to leap into one she might yet live.[...]
Dog is blind in one eye and cannot see. Magpie has a burned wing and cannot fly. But together the two make a perfect whole. Until Fox comes around and coaxes Magpie away from Dog. This long-awaited paperback edition of a multi-award-wining picture book is both stunning in text and unusually powerful[...]
This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Luke and Alex are neighbours and, on Luke's part, reluctant friends. They spend their free time on a large heath, looking for anything to keep themselves amused. Mean[...]
Jen är sjutton år och bor tillsammans med sin mamma och lillasyster i en stad i Australien. Hennes liv kretsar kring kärlek. Kärleken till sina vänner. Den komplicerade kärleken till pappan. Den okomplicerade kärleken till sin utvecklingsstörda lillasyster. Och den stora översvallande kärl[...]
Det handlar om Gabe och Helen, men också om Al, Bram och människor i deras omgivning. Det handlar om deras rädsla, utsatthet och frustration, om smärtsamma svek som skaver mot revbenen och framför allt om de val som går hand i hand med det oväntade. Och med modet.
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