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Josephine Wants to Dance Boxed Set by Jackie French
28.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: 3-7
Josephine is a kangaroo - who loves to dance. Her little brother, Joey, tells her that kangaroos don't dance, they hop, but Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air. When a ballet troupe comes to town and both the lead ballerina and understudy are injured, Josephine's talents are c ...Show more
Night Ride into Danger (PB) by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
From one of Australia's best-loved storytellers comes an exciting mystery adventure story set in 1874 about the Cobb & Co. It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem ...Show more
Oracle by Jackie French
23.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: 10-14
Nikko lives in a small farming village in Greece near the stronghold of Mycenae in 1200 BC. When his sister Thetis is born, Nikko rescues her from the hillside where she has been abandoned, setting off an unforeseen chain of events. Thetis survives the trauma of her birth but is rendered mute until the ...Show more
Pandemic (HB) - Natural Disasters by Jackie French
30.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, Closed. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful story ...Show more
Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult | Series: Matilda | Reading Level: very good
It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Christmas by Jackie French
19.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
From the creators of the delightful QUEEN VICTORIA'S UNDERPANTS comes the story of the first 'traditional' Christmas, complete with a Christmas tree and presents for the family, as seen from the point of view of Queen Victoria's dogs. Something strange is happening at the palace and the dogs can't work ...Show more
Queen Victoria's Underpants by Jackie French
19.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
A very funny story about the most famous underwear in the British Empire.Ages: 4+ Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria ma ...Show more
The Beach They Called Gallipoli by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
An extraordinary exploration of Gallipoli created by the incredible Jackie French and Bruce Whatley Many books have been written about the battles of Gallipoli; the men who went to war and what they faced, the letters, and the tears of those left behind. But this is a book about Gallipoli, the place, an ...Show more
The Book of Horses and Unicorns by Jackie French
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
From Australia's Children's Laureate comes a delightful collection of stories about horses and unicorns. Take a journey through the ages and around the world - from ancient Greece, to the time of Genghis Khan to Arthurian England and then to outback Australia in the 1950s. Each story weaves the fantasti ...Show more
The Girl from Snowy River (#2 The Matilda Saga) by Jackie French
25.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult | Series: The Matilda Saga
In the tradition of THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER comes a gripping and courageous sequel to A WALTZ FOR MATILDA Ages:10-14 The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in the heart of Australia, particul ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
20.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mor ...Show more
The Great Gallipoli Escape by Jackie French
23.00 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction
Renowned for her historical fiction titles, Jackie French now tells the story of the brilliant and famous evacuation of Gallipoli. Sixteen-year-old Nipper and his Gallipoli mates Lanky, Spud, Bluey and Wallaby Joe are starving, freezing and ill-equipped. By November 1915 they know that that there is mo ...Show more