A World Full of Poems by .
$42.99 AUD
Category: Gifts
A gorgeously illustrated introduction to poetry for children, featuring poems about everything from science, sport, and space, to friendship, family, and feelings. This thoughtfully crafted anthology is perfect for children new to verse, and for young poetry fans seeking out new favourites. Explore poet ...Show more
An Emotional Menagerie: An A to Z of Poems About Feelings by The School of Life
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Verse
An imaginative and engaging exploration of childhood emotions through poetry and evocative illustration. An Emotional Menagerie is an emotional glossary for children. A book of 26 rhyming poems, arranged alphabetically, that bring our feelings to life - Anger, Boredom, Curiosity, Dreaminess, Embarrassme ...Show more
Ask No Questions by Eva Collins
$25.00 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No Questions, Eva Collins writes spare affecting lines about her own experience as a teenager when her parents decided to emigrate from ...Show more
Birdy by Sharon Kernot
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
An exquisite young adult verse novel that delves into the pain of loss and trauma and the healing balm of friendship, from the highly acclaimed author of The Art of Taxidermy. Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are staying in a farmhouse on an ...Show more
Booked by Kwame Alexander
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can't nobody stop you/can't nobody cop you... Twelve-year-old Nick is a football-mad boy who absolutely hates books. In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, fo ...Show more
Booked: Graphic Novel by Kwame Alexander
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
Kwame Alexander's acclaimed verse novel Booked is vividly brought to life as a graphic novel with stunning illustrations by star talent Dawud Anyabwile. Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can’t nobody stop you/can’t ...Show more
Courage Out Loud - 25 Poems of Power by Joseph Coelho; Daniel Gray-Barnett (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Verse | Series: Poetry to Perform Ser.
From Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho come 25 more bold and brave poems for children. These waltzing verses for reading aloud were written to comfort and inspire!With his third read-aloud poetry book, Coelho focuses on building kids' courage! It follows Poems Aloud and Smile Out Loud, books ...Show more
Grace Notes by Karen Comer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult - 12+
This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, not played. Tonight, I add it in - just because. We can all do with an extra note of grace. Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. Jam ...Show more
Inside Out & Back Again (#1) by Thanhha Lai
$16.95 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds
Moving to America turns Ha's life inside out. For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by...and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Ha and her fami ...Show more
It's the Sound of the Thing : 100 new poems for young people by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade - 9 to 12 year olds
It’s the Sound of the Thing is an exuberant and evocative collection of poetry for young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australia’s most innovative and celebrated poets. This extraordinary collection celebrates the joy of language and features enticing and relatable poems about everyday life ...Show more
Lullabies for Bed Time by Various
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry & Verse
Beautifully written and illustrated lullabies by emerging and award winning Australian authors. Goodnight moonbeam, goodnight tree, Goodnight stars... and goodnight me. Sure to become a much loved and treasured bed time book.
Mina and the Whole Wide World by Sherryl Clark
$18.00 AUD
Category: Younger Readers - 6 to 9 year olds
Mina wants her own bedroom more than anything else in the whole wide world. And it's almost ready! Just one more lick of sunny yellow paint and it's hers. But when Mina's parents take in an unexpected guest, they give her room away. At first, Mina is too upset to speak. She doesn't care that this new ki ...Show more