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The Book of Horses and Unicorns by Jackie French
$19.99 AUD
Category: 9 – 12 years old
From Australia's Children's Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. Take a journey through the ages and around the world - from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s. Each story weaves the fantasti ...Show more
The Turtle and the Flood by Jackie French
$24.99 AUD
Category: 2 – 6 years old
A companion title to the best-selling The Fire Wombat, this is the story of Myrtle, a small turtle who, by heading uphill, tells the other animals that a flood is coming. Myrtle the turtle knows everything about the waterhole where she lives in the creek. She can also sense the giant flood that is comi ...Show more
They Came On Viking Ships by Jackie French
$15.95 AUD
Category: 9 – 12 years old
This is the story of a Scottish wolfhound called Snarf and his owner, Hekja, whose simple but happy lives change unrecognisably when their village is raided by Vikings. As a puppy, Snarf is fortuitously rescued by a young girl called Hekja when he is badly injured. Both are then captured by raiding Viki ...Show more
Tom Appleby, Convict Boy by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: 9 – 12 years old
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot offer what the colonists want. While the people's health is better than ever, their morale is low as they wait for news f ...Show more
Walking the Boundaries by Jackie French
$14.95 AUD
Category: 9 – 12 years old
All Martin has to do is walk the boundaries and the farm will be his. It is a bright sunny day when Martin sets out, but suddenly he finds himself being swept away in a flsh flood. Ages 10-14.