Bold Types: How Australia’s First Women Journalists Blazed a Trail by Patricia Clarke
29.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and equality.Together, stories of women from Anna Bla ...Show more
Great Expectations Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia by Patricia Clarke
19.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
The Bird Art of William T. Cooper by Wendy Cooper
64.99 AUD
Category: Art
William T. Cooper is considered a master painter of birds. He painted them for many books, mainly bird monographs. He also created many individual paintings of various species that appealed to him, especially birds of paradise, cockatoos and hornbills. These paintings were often large with a broad techn ...Show more
The Imagineer by Christopher Cheng
17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Penny has a massive imagination. She loves to draw up plans, gather her tools and turn sketches and scribbles into new creations. One day, she visits her grandpa’s house and is amazed at his gadgets and gizmos. He has a telephone hanging on his wall, an organ with bellows to pump and a contraption with ...Show more
Frank by Jordie Albiston
24.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
In Frank, Jordie Albiston has combined daily snapshots from Australian photographic pioneer Frank Hurley’s Antarctic diaries into a moving poetry collage. This volume, comprising about 120 poems, offers a portrait of Hurley as photographer and as man, at the end of the heroic era of exploration. Albisto ...Show more
The Great Book-Swapping Machine by Emma Allen
9.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Age range 4 +Late one night, a thing appears in the paddock next to Fabio’s house.His dad calls it ‘space junk’ but inside Fabio discovers books. Books about the galaxy; big, fat books; books full of poems. He swaps a book with Leila from next door and the thing becomes a Great Book-swapping Machine.But ...Show more
Where's Jessie? (HB) by Janeen Brian
2.00 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Age range: 3+ Bertie Bear was going on a long journey. He didn't realise it would be on a camel! And he never imagined he would be having adventures on his own, far away from Jessie. Bertie sets off with his family to head out into the Outback. He is packed into a box to travel with the cameleers as he ...Show more
Wiradjuri Country by Larry Brandy
24.99 AUD
Category: NLA General
Age range 6+Welcome to Wiradjuri Country.The Wiradjuri are the people of the three bila (rivers) and their nguram-bang (Country) is the second largest in Australia. Come with Uncle Larry Brandy on an enlightening journey through his Country’s rivers, woodlands, grasslands and rocky outcrops, as well as ...Show more
Courageous Kids and their Amazing Adventures by Stephanie Owen Reeder
19.99 AUD
Category: Older Readers
Age range 6+Stephanie Owen Reeder’s Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistance and resilience by young people. This book binds together the five original, beloved stories with two brand new ones:Brave Bee and the Castaway KidsWill the Wonderkid and the Elusive Treasure ...Show more
New Year Surprise! (PB) by Christopher Cheng
17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Little Brother is told by his brother and his friends that he's too small to help out at the Spring festival. He's not strong enough to hold onto a kite, and too little to hold the dragon poles. But Father says that he has a special job to do. What can it be? He knows it's not hanging the lanterns up, a ...Show more