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Blue Flower: CBCA shortlisted picture book 2022 by Sonya Hartnett
24.99 AUD
Category: K Self Help Kids
A beautifully told picture book about self-esteem, resilience and the discovery that being different can be something wonderful. From award-winning author Sonya Hartnett, with stunning illustrations by Gabriel Evans.A gentle exploration of a child's realisation that it is her individual differences and ...Show more
Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett
29.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
With their father, there's always a catch ...Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts - toys, bikes, all that glitters most - and makes them the envy of the neighbourhood. To Freya Kiley a ...Show more
Of A Boy by Sonya Hartnett
24.95 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
Adrian (9) lives with his gran and uncle Rory. He loves to draw, wants a dog and fears quicksand, shopping centres and self-combustion. He cannot understand why three local children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home... Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and t ...Show more
Of a Boy: Popular Penguins by Sonya Hartnett
14.99 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Internationally published author: the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark. Award winning author. The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he's afraid of quicksand, shopping centres an ...Show more
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
9.95 AUD
Category: CLASSICS | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
"Sophisticated young readers will be awed by the delicate, measured, heartbreaking portrait that emerges." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant ...Show more
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
22.95 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
Gabriel is dying from an undisclosed illness. He relives his brief 20 years, remembering his parents' over-protectiveness, his wild friend Finnigan who encouraged him to do terrible things, and his dear dog Surrender. Told from the perspectives of Gabriel and Finnigan, the voices are eerily alike in ton ...Show more
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
24.95 AUD
Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
Two gypsy boys are fleeing through a war-ravaged countryside during the night carrying a secret bundle. The boys stumble across a town that has been reduced to smoking rubble, and a zoo that is still intact. When the boys take shelter in the zoo, they discover a menagerie of talking animals. Both the bo ...Show more
The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett
19.99 AUD
Category: 10+ BIGGER KIDS
One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle. In return for their kindness, the soldier tells the sisters marvellous tales, each story connected to the keepsake he carries in his pocket: a perfect, ti ...Show more
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