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  • All Monkeys Love Bananas

    by Sean E Avery

    All monkeys love bananas! For breakfast for dinner for snacks and for lunch they all crave bananas, munch, munch, munch. Well, maybe not all monkeys …

    A very funny picture book about one poor monkey who can’t stand to see another banana. Read more »

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  • Two-Hearted Numbat, The: PB

    by Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina

    Numbat has two hearts, one of stone and one of feather. His stone heart makes him strong and powerful while his feather heart makes him soft and gentle. When having more than one heart becomes troublesome, Numbat must choose which one to keep…

    Praise for The Two-Hearted Numbat
    It is so visually vibrant it will immediately appeal…while the…Read more »

    Price $16.95 Add to cart

  • Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck

    by Michelle Gillespie with illustrations by Sonia Martinez

    Sixteen-year-old Grace Bussell was hailed a hero for her part in rescuing the passengers and crew of the Georgette from sure drowning. She was called Australia’s own Grace Darling. But the rescue would never have been possible without the guidance and leadership of Sam Isaacs, an Aboriginal stockman.

    This beautifully illustrated book is an evocative…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • The Last Viking

    by Norman Jorgensen with illustrations by James Foley

    Let the pillaging begin! CBC Picture Book of the Year winner, Norman Jorgensen, teams up with illustrator James Foley on this fun picture book about a boy who outwits local bullies by channelling his inner Viking.

    James and Norman run a blog for teachers, students and aspiring authors. It follows the real-time trials, tribulations and joys of creating…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • My Country

    by Ezekiel Kwaymullina with illustrations by Sally Morgan

    Best-selling author and internationally renowned artist Sally Morgan teams up with Ezekiel Kwaymullina for a story celebrating country. A gorgeous new picture book in simple, lyrical prose and vibrant colour.

    ‘The book was inspired by my Nana and Gran, who passed on their love of country to me. When I wrote the book I imagined what it would have…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Caterpillar and Butterfly: PB

    by Ambelin Kwaymullina

    There was once a caterpillar who lived all alone. Everything around Caterpillar seemed large and strange, and she was full of fear. Determined to escape any possible danger, Caterpillar hides away in the safety of her chrysalis. There, she finally discovers the inner strength she needs to truly live. Her fears discarded, she emerges triumphantly as…Read more »

    Price $16.95 Add to cart

  • Crow and the Waterhole: PB

    by Ambelin Kwaymullina

    There was once a crow who lived in a tree by a waterhole. Each morning, she stared into the water, and saw another crow staring back. Crow thought Crow-in-the-waterhole was the most wonderful bird she had ever seen.

    ‘She looks like a crow who could change the world. I wish I could be like her.’

    Crow and The Waterhole is an inspiring and…Read more »

    Price $16.95 Add to cart

  • A Sausage Went for a Walk

    by Ellisha Majid with illustrations by Peter Kendall

    Want to butter up your young reader? 47,000 children have egged on Sausage as he scrambled away from the breakfast table.

    Find out why Sausage is so full of beans after 20 years spent avoiding poachers and cereal killers who’d like to get him into hot water.

    A flaky story that, two decades later, is still so fresh it’s straight from the…Read more »

    Price $12.95 Add to cart

  • How Frogmouth Found her Home

    by Ambelin Kwaymullina

    ‘Kwaymullina’s intriguing story is complemented by her masterful artwork, with bush creatures and landscapes rendered in a vividly coloured palette…’ — Sydney’s Child

    Frogmouth isn’t like the other birds. She doesn’t want to live in the trees. Frogmouth is in search of something more.

    Frogmouth travels the land hunting for a new nesting…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Lighthouse Girl paperback edition

    by Dianne Wolfer with illustrations by Brian Simmonds

    ‘Full of evocative illustrations, sepia photographs and news clippings, Wolfer’s book transports. A great one for early and older readers alike,’ — Frances Atkinson, The Sunday Age

    ‘This lovely book is based on the real Faye Howe and her life as a lighthouse keeper’s daughter…Fay’s reflections on her life and her relationship with the far-away…Read more »

    Price $19.95 Add to cart

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An Easeful Death

by Felicity Young

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Outdoor Reading in Freo

The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au