Finding Home Gary Crew & Susy Boyer (Ford Street)A young boy, a lover of books, loves a tall ancient tree solitary standing proudly on his parents bush property. it is the home to a flock of cockatoos which he sees as truly beautiful. His parents though see the cockatoos as destructive pests and set about ridding the property of this last lone tree and to the boy's distress the cockatoos.. Inevitable conflict follows with a dramatic conclusion.
Set in the time of the early settlers with hand driven bush saws, and travelling library staff and ha'pennies, this is a book that will leave an impact on its readers in both the text and in the well created bush illustrations.
This is one of those special picture books for mature readers.
Never Ever Before Stephen Michael King (Scholastic)Big dreams of drifting with the wind like the Smalls. Talls are wibbly wobbly and fall over in the wind. Smalls are carefree light and drift in the wind ... but when a breeze becomes a big wind all three team together and help each other as one. The Smalls are protected, the Talls, strengthened and Big gets to fulfil his wish.
This is not the usual book about small and big and tall ... this book has a very different treatment for them and has many different themes; about wishing for change, staying the same, safety, teamwork and friendship, security, shelter and wishes.
Beautiful 'shape' illustrations.
Princess and Fairy Most Charming Flower Girls Anna Pignataro (Scholastic)
The delightful bunnies, Princess and Fairy are back in their third look-and-find adventure.
Miss Joy and Princess Charming and getting married and Princess and Fairy are to be flower girls. But before they can attend the wedding they have to find everything on their list of charming things -- which will all be found inside the covers of this book.
With sweet illustrations and delightful rhyming verse, this book will be looked at again and again to find the items on the list and flower girls will especially love this glittery book!
Princess and Fairy Most Charming Flower Girls Anna Pignataro (Scholastic)The delightful bunnies, Princess and Fairy are back in their third look-and-find adventure.
Miss Joy and Princess Charming and getting married and Princess and Fairy are to be flower girls. But before they can attend the wedding they have to find everything on their list of charming things -- which will all be found inside the covers of this book.
With sweet illustrations and delightful rhyming verse, this book will be looked at again and again to find the items on the list and flower girls will especially love this glittery book!
