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A Year on our Farm by Penny Matthews
$15.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: YEAR ON OUR FARM
Every month of the year there are jobs to do on a small Australian farm. Fruit ripens, lambs are born, hay is harvested. 'A Year on our Farm' shows the passing of the seasons through the eyes of the children for whom the farm and all its animals is home. This delightful picture book won the Children's B ...Show more
Crusher Kevin (Aussie Nibbles) by Penny Matthews
$12.95 AUD
Category: Kids' Fiction | Series: Aussie Nibbles
"Charlie really wants a dog, and his Mum and Dad say he can have one when they move ito their new house. But Crusher is not the kind of dog Charlie wants, or is he?"--Prelim. Suggested level: primary.
Finch by Penny Matthews
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Fiction
Audrey is used to not fitting in. She knows she's different - even her little sister calls her "Nerd Girl". When her family moves to the country to live on a vineyard property, Audrey makes a secret friend: a boy, Finch, who seems to understand her as nobody else can. But there's something mysterious ab ...Show more
One Night by Penny Matthews
$16.99 AUD
Category: Christmas
On the first Christmas Eve, so the story goes, the animals were given a very special gift to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Since then, at midnight on Christmas Eve the animals remember. A beautiful retelling of an old Christmas folktale.
Our Australian Girl: Meet Nellie (Book 1) by Penny Matthews
$18.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1849 Ser.
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie O'Neill is arriving in South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses. Nellie and her best friend, Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind, and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. Nellie longs to learn to read, to be part of a family on ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Nellie and Secret the Letter (Book 2) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction & First Readers | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1849 Ser.
It's 1849 . . . and Nellie is starting her new life as a kitchen maid in a grand Adelaide house with her best friend, Mary. But Nellie's desire to live out her dreams soon leads to a battle with the spiteful cook Bessie Rudge... Can Nellie keep her temper and avoid being thrown out to beg on the streets ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: Nellie's Greatest Wish (Book 4) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: Kids' Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl
Nellie returns to Adelaide, where a shock awaits her. A reunion with someone from her past has the power to fulfil the wishes she made when she first arrived in Australia...A dramatic conclusion to the Nellie books that will have readers weeping and cheering in equal measure.
Our Australian Girl: Nellie's Quest (Book 3) by Penny Matthews
$14.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction & First Readers | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1850 and Nellie's best friend, Mary, is gravely ill. To provide Mary with the care she needs, Nellie must break a promise and go on a quest to find the Thompson family. But will they be able to help? And who will Nellie turn to when her own life is in danger? Follow Nellie on her adventure in the t ...Show more
Our Australian Girl: The Ruby Stories by Penny Matthews
$26.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Fiction | Series: Our Australian Girl Ser.
It's 1930 . . . and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she prepares for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier, but the world outside is experiencing harder times. Ruby knows that lots of people are losing their jobs, but her o ...Show more
The Gift by Penny Matthews
$15.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A rather plain bear sits next to a gorgeous plush crocodile in the toyshop. As Christmas shopping becomes frantic, each one hopes to be chosen as a gift, and to find a home with a child to love him. But as hope dwindles, the little bear makes his own gift to the crocodile.
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