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Grandma Wombat (PB) by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
20.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
From the award-winning, best-selling creators of DIARY OF A WOMBAT comes another Wombat picture book - this time about more senior members of the species. Ages: 3+ She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. And like all grandmas, she thinks her grandson is the best-behaved baby ever. But this baby wombat has ...Show more
Hitler's Daughter by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Matilda
WINNER CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER READERS Did Hitler's daughter, Heidi, really exist? - What if she did? The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the concentration camps, but all Hitler's daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs she rescued from the co ...Show more
I am Juliet by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Senior Fiction
The world's most famous love story told by one of Australia's most respected authors. This is the well-known story of Juliet Capulet and her love for Romeo. It also the story about the increasing helplessness Juliet feels as she realises that unlike young men her age, her life will effectively be determ ...Show more
Josephine Wants To Dance 10th Anniversary Edition by Jackie French, Bruce Whatley
18.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of this wonderful story about dreams, believing in yourself ...and a dancing kangaroo. Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop - but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the ...Show more
Just a Girl by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a truly extraordinary woman. And after 2000 years, the story of her brave and remarkable life continues to inspire and enthrall us, as that young woman from Nazareth was never 'just a girl'. In 72 AD, as the Roman army pillages Judea and destroys their village, fourteen-ye ...Show more
Koala Bare by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
For too long koalas have been called bears. But this koala is out to prove to the world that he is BARE! And that never, ever, ever can a koala be called a bear From the internationally renowned author of the bestselling Diary of a Wombat comes a hilariously funny picture book that Jackie French has ...Show more
My Name Is Not Peaseblossom by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A FRESH REINTERPRETATION OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM BY THE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S LAUREATE Titania rose to her feet. 'What is going on here, Peaseblossom?' she demanded. I bowed to her. 'I apologise, Your Majesty. But I'd rather be known as Pete.' 'Pete?' She frowned. 'That's no name for a fairy.' 'No ...Show more
No Hearts of Gold by Jackie French
33.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
SOME GIRLS ARE BORN TO BE LOVED,SOME ARE BORN TO BE USEFUL,AND SOME ARE BORN TO BE BAD ... Indulged and wealthy Kat Fitzhubert is 'sold' in an arranged marriage to a colony across the world. Lady Viola Montefiore is the dark-skinned 'changeling' of a ducal family, kept hidden and then shipped away. Tita ...Show more
Ophelia: Queen of Denmark by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Following on from I AM JULIET (August 2014), this is the second title in a proposed new series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare's classic and enduring plays. Ages: 10+ Who was Ophelia? She only appears twice in the play Hamlet. The rest of the time we only hear about ...Show more
Pandemic (HB) by Jackie French
30.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, Closed. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful story ...Show more
Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: Matilda
It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi ...Show more
Pete the Sheep (Board) by Jackie French
18.00 NZD
Category: Board, Cloth & Bath Books
Sean is a shearer, and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style and even the shearers' dogs end up arr ...Show more