Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (#1 Harry Potter PB) by J.K. Rowling
$16.99 AUD
Category: Series | Series: Harry Potter | Reading Level: very good
Strange things always seem to happen when Harry Potter is around. Things that unsettle his guardians, the Dursleys. They strongly disapprove of strangeness. It's only when a letter arrives, delivered by a shaggy giant of a man called Hagrid, that Harry learns the truth that will transform his entire fut ...Show more
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Little Histories | Reading Level: very good
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to imme ...Show more
Open City by Teju Cole
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book - One of the ten top novels of the year --Time and NPR NAMED A BEST BOOK ON MORE THAN TWENTY END-OF-THE-YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING The New Yorker - The Atlantic - The Economist - Newsweek/The Daily Beast - The New Republic - New York Daily News - Los Angeles Times - The Boston G ...Show more
On Photography by Susan Sontag
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Category: Photography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' ha ...Show more
Draw, Paint and Print Like Great Artists: Marion Deuchars' Book of Great Artists by Marion Deuchars
$32.99 AUD
Category: Art
In this imaginative new activity book, Marion Deuchars makes learning about art fun. Young readers are introduced to 18 great artists, then encouraged to try out the techniques that lie behind their greatest works. Short and accessible facts about each artist's life and works are followed by creative pr ...Show more
The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley: (who can't help flying high and falling in deep) by Martine Murray
$15.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction
When Cedar’s almost-boyfriend leaves to join a professional circus, her world is turned upside down and she is pulled between a glamorous, high-flying dream and her own circus of friends. “Part of me wants to keep it to myself... Part of me wants to shout its brilliance from the roof tops.” — Philip Ard ...Show more
Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars by Martine Murray
$14.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Reading Level: From 7
A delightful story about friendship and acceptance and learning to see the wonder in the world. Molly has a strange life. Her mama collects herbs at dawn and makes potions, her father and brothers have gone away, and her house feels like a gypsy caravan. Molly doesn't want to know anything about herbs ...Show more
The Wishing Spell (#1 The Land of Stories) by Chris Colfer
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Fiction | Series: The Land of Stories | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
The first book in Chris Colfer's #1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories about two siblings who fall into a fairy-tale world Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic f ...Show more
Henrietta and the Perfect Night by Martine Murray
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Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Henrietta Ser.
Hello everybody, it's me. Henrietta the Great Go-Getter, and I'm having a big think. Right now I'm thinking I'd like a baby sister, so I can dress her up in different sorts of hats. But Mum says we'll have to wait and see. I'm terrible at waiting. Meanwhile, I'm an explorer of life, and that includes tr ...Show more
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket
$22.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction Series | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and ir ...Show more
Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau by Andrea Beaty
$21.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
In a three-story house with a shop down below, lived the worlds finest hat maker, Madame Chapeau. Like the Lady herself, all her hats were refined. Brilliantly singular. One of a kind. So begins the tale of a lonely hat maker who matches customers to the perfect hat but lacks her own perfect match i ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more