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Speedy Edie
Written by Teena Raffa-Mulligan, Illustrated by Veronica Rooke
Edie dreams of being the champion runner at the inter-school sports. Perhaps then the other children will like her. But her hopes are dashed when the big day doesn’t go to plan. A few days later, there is a wild storm and a giant tree topples down, crashing into the little bush schoolhouse and trapping everyone inside. Their teacher is injured. What can they do? Only Edie is small enough to climb through the window and run for help. Can she brave the storm and be a true champion?
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The Yesterday Dress
Teena Raffa-Mulligan
A pearl button from Mama’s wedding glove starts Angelina’s yesterday collection. Soon everyone in her big multicultural family has a memory to share and a special keepsake to give her. “What will you do with them?” asks Mama. A school dress-up parade for Pioneers Day gives Angelina a wonderful idea of what to do with her yesterday things.
A warm-hearted story about family connections.
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The Mum for the Job
Teena Raffa-Mulligan
Elephants never forget – or do they? One rainy day Jumbo Jim is on his way home from school alone when a tiger stops and offers him a lift. Tim promises to get him home and dry quicker than a snake can blink an eye – but Jimbo says no. Mum has told him never to go with strangers. That’s when Tiger Tim says he is a family friend – and he has chocolate, too. Will Jimbo remember his mother’s stranger danger warnings – or go with Tim?
Poems on topics as diverse as peas, aliens and windy days feature in this lively collection that will encourage young readers to enjoy poetry and marvel at the wonder of words. Funny, thoughtful, silly and serious, Sleepy Socks and Sometime Rhymes is a celebration of the everyday and the imaginary. It is ideal for home or classroom, for sharing or for quiet moments curled up in a comfy chair.
It’s 1817 and Rosie has lived all her life in Parramatta. Pa came to the colony in New South Wales as a free settler and is a successful trader, importing goods from foreign lands. Ma is an ex-convict who stitches fine gowns for the ladies of the colony. Now Pa’s brother is on his way from England with his family to join them. Rosie can hardly contain her excitement. She and Cousin Amelia will surely become the best of friends, sharing secrets and adventures. When Pa decides to take Rosie along with him and the new arrivals to help set up their farm in the bush a day’s journey from town, she can’t believe her luck. It means leaving behind the puppy she rescued from a group of cruel boys but what fun it will be to spend every day with Amelia. It is fun…but there is also danger. A raging bushfire threatens to destroy the farm and everyone in it. How will they survive? Will Rosie ever return home to Ma, the little kids and Patch the puppy?
Trouble comes to Tea Tree Bend… In cowboy movies the sheriff forms a posse to round up all
There is magic, mystery, adventure and fun in this collection of short stories for young readers. Meet a monster with a toothache, a princess who doesn’t behave like one and a fairy who can’t fly. Find out what happens when Cinderella’s slipper is the wrong fit, how to solve a Dads’ Day dilemma and the solution to losing a little brother in another time. Often funny, sometimes serious, the 15 stories are an entertaining mix of humour and whimsy, fantasy and reality. The Fifty Per Cent Princess & Other Goodnight Reads is certain to become a family favourite for bedtime sharing or reading alone.
Jake can’t believe his luck when he finds a strange object at the beach. It is shaped like a banana, gleams like a copper coin, crackles and pops and is getting hotter by the minute. The story about a flying saucer crashing in Pelican Bay must be true and this is an alien object. There is only one thing for four cousins to do – take home The Find and study it in secret. Strange things begin to happen to Jake and the cousins have to figure out how to return him to normal before the grownups find out. But just when they think their problems are over, The Find’s owner turns up and wants it back. It might have been best to leave the strange object where they found it… An alien encounter story for young readers.
Emi and her twin brothers have a secret. There’s a Christmas elf in their backyard and she’s eaten so many strawberries it’s given her a tummy ache. Cam Emi, Max and Sam help her recover so she can return to the North Pole and deliver her Christmas gift list to Santa on time? An Australian Christmas Story.
Amy’s unusual pet has won the family a summer vacation in the school Pet Parade but Mum and Dad say Rocky has to stay home because no pets are allowed at the beach cottages. How is that fair? They wouldn’t be going to the seaside if weren’t for Rocky. Amy has to find a way to take him. Luckily the strange neighbour who gave Rocky to Amy has an interesting solution to the ‘no pets’ problem. Mum and Dad don’t know it but an extra guest has come along to join the summer fun. Can Rocky stay Amy’s secret? Perhaps her holiday will be a monstrously more fun if he doesn’t…
Jane stops being Jane at breakfast on Monday. It’s way too plain a name.There must be a better one, more suited to who she is. Mum and Dad go along with her plan. So does her class teacher. But finding the right name is far more difficult than Jane expected. Every name she tries for herself feels wrong until her class holds a Name Jane Contest. Jane chooses a winner and the family plans a picnic to celebrate her new name. When there is an incident at the park, Jane must decide whether to become Sharla – or stay Jane.
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