For Valour: Australia's Victoria Cross Heroes (Our Stories)
by Nicolas Brasch
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. On a tiny island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, stand hundreds of giant stone statues. Made long ago, they hold the secrets of a lost pe...
Is there somewhere you really want to travel to, or just yearn to know better? Do you want all the essential facts about Australia at your fingertips? If you want to know what it's really about (rather than the things your parents think you should see!), The Real Australia is a great place to start. . What's hot: Australia highlights you really won't want to miss . Get a taste for Australia's amazing food scene, from beach barbecues to top chefs . Tantalising accounts of the best sights . Maps a...
Explora Australia y Oceania (Explora Los Continentes)
by Bobbie Kalman and Rebecca Sjonger
This book is suitable for ages 6 to 10 years. This text is in Spanish. "Explore Australia and Oceania" leads children on an exciting trip through Australia's beautiful and diverse landscapes. Considered both a country and a continent, amazing full-colour photographs feature the Great Barrier Reef, the rugged Outback, and Australia's interesting and unique animals.
Journey to the heart of Australia and find secret life in the harshest of deserts in this riveting true story captured in stunning illustrations. In the center of Australia lies a strange desert wilderness called the Dead Heart. It is difficult to imagine anything can exist in such a forbidding place. But the Dead Heart contains amazing stories of adaptation and survival. Follow in the footsteps of early explorers like Charles Sturt and learn what the indigenous people of Australia have long kn...
Meet a Baby Crocodile (Baby Australian Animals Lightning Bolt)
by Jon Fishman
One, two, three. Nakudji, bokenh, danjbik. Accompanied by illustrations drawing on traditional Kunwinjku art, each of the twelve entries of this counting book showcases a different animal of West Arnhem Land, Australia. From crocodiles and echidnas to wallabies, children and adults alike will enjoy learning the Kunwinjku names for numbers and animals, as well as discovering more about these animals' habitat and behavior, and what they mean to the indigenous Bininj. Whether teaching you how drago...
Award-winning author Ann Ingalls’s A is For Australia invites little readers to embark on an alphabet adventure in the land down under—featuring illustrations by Kat Kalindi. A is for Aussie B is for boomerang C is for crocodiles . . . G’day, mates! With D for didgeridoo, R for reef, and V for vegemite, this colorful primer has everything you need to know about the land down under. Take an alphabetized bushwalk from the Outback to the Reef, and learn what makes Australia so amazing!