Hunting for Dragons Bruce Whatley (Scholastic)One of the very best Australian illustrators is Bruce Whatley and he has the most fun story about one of my favourite animals - dragons. This book is such a joy to devour - both in the simple storyline and the illustrations.
This is the story of a child (complete with dragon discovering armour) who spends most weekends hunting for dragons, and dragons are found in the most amazing places around the home and the yard. Of course when a 'real' dragon is discovered and announced, not everyone is a believer.
Make sure you look closely at the illustrations ... it is amazing how many wonderful dragons appear here and where they are!
My Country Dorothea Mackellar & Andrew McLean (Scholastic)Australia is a beautiful country and this is the classic poem about the landscape of our country written by Dorothy Mackellar when she was feeling homesick for Australia. It is accompanied by classic pictures of the Australian landscape - in its many wild and beautiful ways.
The poem describes our beautiful country including the bushfires, and deserts to the storms, moon-lit forest, floods and droughts.
With such delightful illustrations this book is a lovely image of the Australian landscape. And this is the complete poem too.
Zoobots Bruce & Ben Whatley (Angus&Robertson)Zoobots, created by Bruce and his son Ben, is lovely and kids all over will be making their own Zoobot characters from any bits of junk, and more, that is left lying around once they have discovered this book.
This is the story of three junk yard best friends and their quest to 'create' another best friend ... but things don't quite go according to plan,
The book is illustrated very differently from most of Whatley's other titles with the illustrations using cinematic 3D type imagery which makes it quite amazing. This book celebrates friendship and recycling!!!
Have fun sharing these.
