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An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award–contending short film. In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders return this gift with a monument of four boulders in their honor, which the Mahu imbue with healing powers before disappearing.   As time passes, foreigner...

  School is tough enough without throwing a hijab into the mix... Amal is a 16-year-old Melbourne teen with all the usual obsessions about boys, exams, chocolate and magazines. She's also a Muslim, struggling to honour the Islamic faith in a society that doesn't understand it. The story of her decision to "shawl up" and its attendant anxieties (like how much eyeliner to wear) is funny, surprising and touching by turns. Explorin...

Bronte is nervous about meeting a group of girls who are friends of her best mate Annabelle. Will she like them? Will they like her? How will they all get along for two whole weeks? Bronte needn’t have worried, as they all connect when something which has been playing on Bronte’s mind gets the girls to unite as a team. Bronte has always been a beach girl. She grew up by one and has been a Nipper for as long as she can remember. She’d do anything for her beach… so when she realises that not...

Our lives are measured by the places we hold dear, the people we love and the paths we have trodden. So, who better to tell our stories than the shoes we wear? Boots, exactly as the title suggests, describes a beloved pair of working boots. Through their endearing perspective, this picture book narrates the life of a cattle farmer and his love of the Australian bush.Written in simple, but lyrical prose, Boots breathes life into a generation of hardworking men and women, their humble lifestyles,...

Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.

Have YOU ever had a bad week? The hilarious new series taking the world by storm. He’s been naked in front of the whole school, survived a marooning, a kidnapping AND a giant sinkhole, and every one of these cringe inducing moments has gone mega viral! Justin Chase is having the WORST WEEK EVER! Time for nice relaxing weekend, right? WRONG! As Justin must face his spookiest challenge yet… zombies! No, really! And these aren’t just any zombies… he lives next door to the cemetery for ELITE ATH...

Under the moon, by the big gum tree, let's sing and dance in the corroboree.With ochre on our bodies, Our dance awaits,Our mob, Our culture, let's celebrate.Join in the fun as we come together and dance at the corroboree! Learn how to slither like a snake, jump like a kangaroo, crawl like a goanna, walk like an emu and fly like an eagle.A joyful celebration of First Nations culture and Australia's unique animals through dance and music, with rhyming actions to get young readers moving and vibran...

Three bite-size stories kick off a series based on a popular TV show about all the fun (and maybe a little trouble) that happens at snack time. Little Lunch — aka snack time — is only fifteen minutes long, but it’s always full of surprises. In this trio of tales, Rory forgets his snack and does something that shocks everyone, Battie thinks he might have ruined Grandparents Day, and Melanie decides to hold a bake sale to raise money for homeless puppies . . . but the only thing she’s selling is...

Once, in the Dreamtime, the biggest frog in Australia woke up thirsty. So thirsty that he drinks up all the water from the oceans, lakes, rivers, billabongs, puddles, and even from the clouds. When he is done, the earth is parched, and the other animals are thirsty. Wise old Wombat suggests that the animals try to make the biggest frog laugh, so the water will spill out of his mouth. But the frog barely hears Kookaburra's best jokes, and yawns at Kangaroo's acrobatics. Koala waddles ridiculous...