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This book, in Guinness Book of Records style, tells the remarkable true stories of some of Australia’s youngest heroes.
At different times and in different ways, these brave, clever, adventurous, creative, athletic, caring or enterprising young Australians have done something amazing. |
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Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots is full of rhymes, riddles and objects to search for; these provide the clues for what to search for on each page. So the book becomes a language learning experience as well as an enjoyable read.
The book has detailed and humorous full-page colour illustrations that children will revisit time and time again. |
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Newts, Lutes and Bandicoots, Mark Carthew, illustrated by Mike Spoor, IP Kidz, 2009/ HB:
ISBN 9781921479335
32 pp, $24.95 |
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In the sequel to The Greenhouse Effect, Tiger the Cat heads off to the coast with his friend Wanda the Blue-tongue and the frog Tark (who is really an extraterrestrial from the Planet Griffon) to spread the word about how to save the Earth. |
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Plato, an eco-warrior, and part-time plumber fixes watery problems like leaking taps, but he also fixes grumpy people with jokes or a smile spray. His tool kit is legendary.
Despite ferals along the creek bank, Plato is on call to help Zanzibar and his family who are renovating their old creekside house. |
| Global Cooling, David Reiter, IPK, 2008. PB: ISBN
9781876819767, 206 pp., $15.95 |
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Plato the Platypus Plumber (part-time), Hazel Edwards & John Petropoulos, IPK, March, 2010. HB:
ISBN 9781921479373 $26.95. |
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Who is setting fire to the old cypress hedges?A team of young detectives sets about to solve the crime. Just about everyone these young detectives come across has a motive and as time goes on there are more and more fires and more serious confrontations...
This is the first of a series featuring Anna and Zach, Private Eyes (A~Z PIs). |
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Jon,
like many young boys, is fascinated by guns. He finds a loaded pistol hidden
under
his parents’ bed, with nearly tragic consequences. The close call
prompts his father to explain to Jon why he needs to keep the gun, forging
a much closer bond between father and son. |
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Real Guns, David P Reiter
(author), Patrick J Murphy (artist), IP Kidz, 2007.
ISBNs: 9781876819835 (HB) 9781876819842 (PB)
9781876819842e (ebk)
HB, 32 pp., 4 colour; $29.95; PB, $16.95; eB, AU$12.95. |
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Jason Chen learns of a strange and powerful machine lurking in his neighbour’s backyard. Mrs Bryant is supposed to be weird, but she buys fish and chips from his parents’ café so he thinks she can’t be too bad. But Mrs B has a secret. And when she says she can’t succeed in her dangerous mission without him, Jason agrees to join her for a ride in her Time Banana |
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Jason Chen and the Time Banana, Duncan Richardson, IP Kidz, 2008.
PB:
ISBN 9781921479038, 192 pp, $16.95 |
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Lily and Amanda Smart are lucky girls. They live in a tall house made of purple bricks, and every day they get to walk to school through a park filled with beautiful trees. Their favourite tree is the Giggle Gum, and they look forward to playing in it. |
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The Giggle Gum Tree, Juliet Williams, illustrated by Elizabeth Gotte, IP Kidz, 2009.
HB:
ISBN 9781921479182
34 pp, $24.95
Release date: 15 May, 2009. |
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When Hanna and her younger sister Zoe find a duckling with a broken leg in a nearby park, they are determined to nurse it back to health. The local postman for thirty-five years, Reg Reid, is given the job of collecting all the townspeople’s stories.
But after doing so, they realise that an even greater threat to the duckling has appeared: someone wants to develop the park into a shopping centre! |
Lame Duck Protest, Goldie Alexander, IP Kidz, 2009.
PB:
ISBN 9781921479137
32 pp, $24.95
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When
Tiger the cat moves to Canberra with his owner, he befriends a local,
Wanda the blue-tongued lizard,
who is suspicious of introduced species. A delightful children's novel
with an environmental conscience! |
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The Greenhouse Effect,
David Reiter, Lothian, 2004.
PB:
ISBN 0734406428
206 pp, $14.95 |
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Winner, IP Picks 09 Best First Book.
A creative and well-crafted fantasy story for young adults, and takes the reader on an entertaining ride as it looks at magic curses, good and evil, and the challenges of dealing with the adult world. |
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The Secret Stealer,
Jess Webster, GHB, March 2010.
PB:
ISBN 9781876819330
232 pp, $24. |
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When Willow Farrington first meets Isaac Silberstein she doesn’t know what to expect. He’s a gnome-like old man who survived a World War II concentration camp, and she’s an almost-14-year-old who’s just back at school after a four-month stay in hospital with an eating disorder. He’s written a recipe and gardening book, and she has to do a talk on it for school. |
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Willow Farrington Bites Back,
Rebecca Bloomer, GHB, 2009. PB:
ISBN 9781921479336
100 pp, $24.95. |
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What will happen when Zahara reaches the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and tries to see the Queen? Much acclaimed author, Libby Hathorn has told a gentle, celebratory tale, illuminated by the evocative illustrations of Doris Unger. |
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Zahara's Rose, Libby Hathorn, illustrated by Doris Unger, IP Kidz. Release date: 15 Aug 2009.
HB:
ISBN 9781921479236
32 pp, $26.95 |
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