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Walker Books

Funny, charming, disarming and full of surprising adventure, featuring the one of our most unusually endearing creatures, from award-winning author, Juliette MacIver.

This is Axel’s axolotl. Hi ho, Harris Aristotle!

Harris Aristotle is a much-loved axolotl. Axel attends to his every wish and want and need and feeds him with the finest cheese, and warms him with the warmest of hats. Axel's fishy feet never touch the ground ... But despite his life of ease, Harris has a secret dream ... and hatches a secret, and daring scheme. Harris is about to surprise everyone!

Little Axel's Axolotl

Allen & Unwin

A funny exploration of the most mysterious organ in the human body from the bestselling and award-winning author of Do Not Lick This Book.
Hi, I'm your brain.
Here are some things you should know about me:
I'm about the size of a pineapple.
I sit behind your eyes. I look like a big walnut (but gooey). I'm not a computer.
So what do I do? Oh, just about everything. 

A fun-filled book made by brains, about brains, for brains.

Your BRAIN is a LUMP OF GOO

https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=9781400242054&tag=hcaps-20

Dinosaurs are big, and strong, and scary, and farty,
So do you really want them coming to your birthday party?
Watch out! Birthdays will never be the same with this silly picture book adventure featuring lively rhymes and hilarious illustrations!

A Very Dinosaur Birthday

https://www.booktopia.com.au/colour-makes-the-world-go-round-christopher-nielsen/book/9781760655655.html

A whimsical, layered exploration though colour celebrating that variety, diversity, and difference creates joy.
Imagine a RAINBOW without colour, or FLAMINGOS, or RED SHOES, what about a ZEBRA? Oh …
Christopher Nielsen invites the reader to imagine a world with colour ... and without. Cleverly juxtaposing illustrations, he shows how colour, in all its variety, is what creates our wonderful world. Deceptively simple, this is a book that can spark discussion about difference and the depth that it creates.

COLOUR MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND

Not so long ago, in a town not far away, on a shelf marked ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN, sat a book waiting to be read. Arabella's Alphabet Adventure was the most borrowed book in library but Arabella dreamt of a more exciting life...A timeless story about an alphabet, a daring adventure and a book who learns she is perfect, just the way she is.

Arabella's Alphabet Adventure

In 1960, the first humans touched down on the deepest part of the ocean floor. But how did we get here? From Shore To Ocean Floor explains how, in just a few hundred years, humans went from building their first fishing boats to sending explorers to the bottom of the ocean.

Shore To Ocean Floor

Horror calls you! Yes YOU! Dear Reader,You  hold, in 
your sweaty, human hand, one of a series of Eerie books all  dripping 
with horror and awfulness. As your wander further into each  terrible 
tale, fear will grip you, fright will freeze your brain and you  will 
not want to turn the page. A series of 12 middle grade chapter books.

Eerie Series

All it takes is the will to make dreams come true. Just One Bee is a story of hope, determination and never 
giving up: the story of One-bee and her dream to revert desolate wastes 
back to fields of flowers. But to change a desert to meadowland she 
needs to go alone because when she comes across another bee, she 
discovers not only is he hoarding a single precious flower and a queen 
bee, but he refuses to believe positive change is possible. Other-bee 
does all he can to quash One-bee’s dream. But One-bee’s persistence, 
patience and optimism eventually prove Other-bee wrong, and she shows 
how dreams can come true.


Just One Bee

Long before anyone had designed a rocket, the Montgolfier brothers were
 making hot air balloons. In October 1783, they became the first people 
to experience controlled flight. Balloon to the Moon starts there and 
leads to Neil Armstrong's 'small step' and beyond. But why stop there? 
Learn about the great innovations of the past, then get ready for BLAST 
OFF into an unknown but exciting future.

Balloon To The Moon

In a mulberry brick house on the harbour that Lara explores while her 
mother cleans, Lara meets Pierre, a boy about her age with a beautiful 
antique puppet theatre. With his puppets, he tells her a story about a 
boy whose family has been eaten by wolves. The boy is lost. He needs to 
find his grandmother. Lara takes the part of a dog, but suddenly she can
 no longer tell where she ends and Dog begins. Or is she Wolf? Caught up
 in Pierre's story, Lara has to fight to protect her identity - and her 
new friend. Can she help Pierre find his way home?

Pierre's Not There

A romp through both the alphabet and the world of folk tale!

Once Upon An ABC

What happens when a jellyfish falls in love with a plastic bag she mistakes for a jelly-boy? He is big and strong, and so very brave, but holds a dangerous truth. A passionate, cautionary conservation tale about protecting our oceans.

Jelly-Boy

Once upon a time a boy was born. He laughed. He kicked. He grew. He wondered, and had many dreams. When the boy leaves home, he meets a peddler of dreams the like of which he has never imagined. But these dreams come at a cost. A powerful fable for older readers that inspires on many levels and invites multiple readings.

The Dream Peddler

Ponk can't fly but he lives at the top of a tree because the view is so exciting. The trouble is, when Ponk gets excited, he gets dizzy...and tumbles out of the tree. Ponk!

PONK!

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