Put the fun into gardening with this beautifully illustrated guide to growing plants indoors and out. An ideal introduction for complete beginners as well as families with young children, designed to inspire a life-long love of gardening.
A true story about the first Camel Cup races in Alice Springs. Humorously told by one of the young camel trackers/musterers himself, Vincent Forrester. The beautiful illustrations are detailed and filled with humour - find the snake in every picture!
Father Emu protectively sits on his eggs, and after they hatch he teaches the chicks how to find food, while being on the lookout for predators. One day a skilled hunter follows Father Emu’s tracks and no amount of speed or caution can protect him..
A group of young men, some on horseback and two in a land Rover, have fun tracking down camels, who are not very happy about being caught. An added bit of fun for the reader is a snake hidden on every page! Book 13 in the Reading Tracks series.
Set in Southern Africa. Four San men track and hunt an Eland bull, large enough to feed all their families. When they return home, the whole community comes out to help, before celebrating with food, dance and music. Scientific information about Eland and the San people is provided at the back of the book.
Told in the first person, a young lady follows echidna tracks through grass and under rocks to find a big mob of echidnas. She is helped by her mother to carry them home in a bag, where her family help her to clean and cook them. Book 11 in the Reading Tracks series.
A mum and her family go tracking echidnas amongst anthills and spinifex grass. With the help of an old tobacco tin and the sun’s reflection, Mum is able to see into the echidna’s dark hideaway. Readers have great fun finding the hidden mouse in every picture!
Mum and her young daughter go digging for honey ants, and enjoy eating the honey in the ants, once they find some.
Two cousins and their uncle go tracking and hunting for kangaroos early one hot morning. The older cousin nervously shoots his first-ever kangaroo. Full of pride they take it back to their camp, where their proud great-grandparents teach the cousins how to prepare and cook the meat.
Four boys creep out of the house early one morning to fish for barramundi. They have a few adventures along the way, but return home in time to cook the fish before the storm breaks. Illustrated by five Tiwi girls and one Tiwi boy. Book 14 in the reading tracks series.
Mum and her three young children go looking for goannas. They find a big one but it runs up a tree to escape from them. Finally, it returns to the ground and they run after it. The children back in the camp are very happy when the family returns with a yummy meal to share with them all. Book 7 in the Reading Tracks books.
Set in Southern Africa: The book opens with a San woman and four San men doing chores in their traditional village. The men go to hunt for an Eland bull, which they kill and eat. Book 2 in the Reading Tracks series.
Mum and three children go looking for echidnas one hot day. When they find one, they cook it and eat it, the traditional way!
A young man tracks a big kangaroo, which he spears and carries home to cook and share with his family.
A group of children are playing in a tree. One child is still in the tree when he spots a brightly coloured snake sliding down the branches beside him. He calls out to his friends, who fetch an adult to help them to catch the snake.
Told in the first person by an elderly lady who goes into the bush looking for signs of witchetty grubs. When she finally finds the signs in the sand under a witchetty tree, she digs up the roots, and shares the grubs with the women and kids back home.
A new addition to any family is exciting, but the experience can alsobe worrying and confusing for siblings. Coping with the new situations and emotions that arise can be very challenging. This series of four board books deals with the anticipation of waiting for the new baby, the excitement of the arrival itself, and the beginnings of the ......
2 men go tracking and hunting for cattle on horseback in the hot, dusty Central Australian Desert. When they return to the Cattle Station yards a few days later with several young bulls, their enthusiastic children enjoy watching the process from behind the safety of the wooden rails.
A group of four young boys, cousins, go on a barramundi fishing adventure early one morning, to be tested by a croc, a hungry eagle, the weather and – in some cases – a lack of fishing skills!
Father Emu protectively sits on his eggs, and after they hatch he teaches the chicks how to find food, while being on the lookout for predators. One day a skilled hunter follows Father Emu’s tracks and no amount of speed or caution can protect him…
A family go hunting for a goanna on a wintery desert day, helped by their very exuberant dog and his thorny devil friend. Find the thorny devil in every beautiful, colourful picture!
A collection of ten original songs that introduce children to Spanish language and culture through music and pictures. The booklet contains the song lyrics and an illustrated vocabulary list. English translations are provided at the end of the booklet. The music styles are varies and instrumental versions of the songs are included on the CD. ......