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Amazing Grace : An Adventure at Sea by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Reference & Fun Facts | Series: Heritage Heroes Ser.
Age range 7 to 12 This is an exciting tale of the courage of 16-year-old Grace Bussell, an ordinary teenage girl who is thrust into an extraordinary situation when a steamship runs aground near her home on the south-west coast of Australia in 1876. Using eyewitness accounts and other historical document ...Show more
Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
This is an exciting tale of the courage of 16-year-old Grace Bussell, an ordinary teenage girl who is thrust into an extraordinary situation when a steamship runs aground near her home on the south-west coast of Australia in 1876. Using eyewitness accounts and other historical documents of the time, the ...Show more
Australia's Wild Weird Wonderful Weather by Stephanie Owen Reeder; Tania Mccartney (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Reference & Fun Facts
Age range 5+Did you know that, in 2009, a massive dust storm in Australia blew red dust and sand all the way to New Zealand, where it turned the glaciers pink? That, in 1899, Cyclone Mahina plucked dolphins out of the ocean in Far North Queensland and deposited them on cliff tops? That it snowed at Ulur ...Show more
Courageous Kids and their Amazing Adventures by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$19.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Bio & True Stories
Age range 6+Stephanie Owen Reeder’s Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistance and resilience by young people. This book binds together the five original, beloved stories with two brand new ones:Brave Bee and the Castaway KidsWill the Wonderkid and the Elusive Treasure ...Show more
Lost !: A True Tale from the Bush by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Heritage Heroes
Age range 7 to 12 Now in new flexi-bound series edition! Tales of children lost in the bush have frightened and fascinated Australians public since colonial times. In August 1864, three children-Isaac aged nine, Jane aged seven and Frank aged three-survived nine long days and eight cold winter nights in ...Show more
Marvellous Miss May by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Reference & Fun Facts | Series: Heritage Heroes Ser.
In 1901, aged just seven, tiny contortionist May Zinga was given away to Wirth Brothers Circus by her desperate mother. Imagine Miss May's horror when the first thing the Wirths did was cut off all her hair. Poor May had lost both her family and her crowning glory! But this feisty, talented and determin ...Show more
Sensational Australian Animals (HB) by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$29.99 AUD
Category: Kids' Reference & Fun Facts
Discover the intriguing and astonishing things that these sensational Australian animals can do! Age range 8 to 12Explore the fascinating world of native Australian animals through the five basic senses — sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Covering more than 145 truly astounding animals — from sharp- ...Show more
The Vision Splendid by Stephanie Owen Reeder
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Vision Splendid features the sketchbooks of 22 nineteenth-century artists, ranging from well-known professionals like Eugene von Gurard and John Glover to amateurs about whom little is known. These artists, engineers, surveyors, military men, solicitors, public servants and pastoralists all delighte ...Show more
Trouble in the Surf by Stephanie Owen Reeder; Briony Stewart
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range 5+ It’s a hot summer’s day in Sydney Town, and nine-year-old cousins Charlie Smith and Rupert Swallow can’t wait to dive into the surf at Bondi Beach. But the beach can be a dangerous place. Out past the breakers, where the seagulls swoop and soar, lurks a strong rip that can drag unsuspectin ...Show more
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