You and Me: Our Place

You Must Be Joking!

Tom Tom is always busy. He goes to pre-school, where he likes to paint pictures and make damper with playdough. He visits his Granny Annie and Granny May and Grandfather Joe. Every day he swims with his brothers and sisters and cousins in the cool, clear water of the Lemonade Springs.

Rosemary Sullivan’s simple text and Dee Huxley’s vivid illustrations capture the rich, full life of a small boy living in a remote Aboriginal community in Australia’s Top End.

ISBN: 978 1876288 98 3
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $24.95
Full colour

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Captain Congo and the Crocodile King
Ruth Starke & Greg Holfeld

A graphic picture book by award-winning writer Ruth Starke and prize-winning animator, Greg Holfeld, featuring heroes, Captain Congo and his sidekick Pug.

In this first adventure, Captain Congo and Pug are sent by the Agency to Abyssinia to locate a missing anthropologist who has been searching for the Treasure House of the Queen of Sheba.  With spies, scorpions, crocodiles, human sacrifice, heroism, this story has it all.

ISBN: 978 1876288 91 4
290 x 230 mm
HB 48 pp $24.95
Full colour

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Baby Bird's Blankie
Margaret Wild & Gwyn Perkins

Baby Bird loves his blankie.  But when it comes to bedtime Baby Bird would rather play than sleep.  A book full of fun, humour and gentle repetition that will surprise and delight both adults and young children. Not to mention baby birds!

ISBN: 978 1 876288 87 7 250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $19.95
Full colour

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Boom Bah!
Phil Cummings & Nina Rycroft

Shhh … Listen! What’s that sound?

When a tiny mouse taps a cup with a spoon and creates a simple TING! everyone else wants to join in. Ting! Tong! Clickety-click!   Follow the band as it gathers and grows from a solo performance, to an explosive full orchestra.

Winner of the 2008 Advertiser Little Big Book and Windmill Performing Arts Picture Book to Performance Award.

ISBN: 978 1876288 90 7
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $19.95
Full colour

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The Smallest Bilby and the Easter Games
Nette Hilton & Bruce Whatley

When the rabbits decide to stop delivering Easter eggs, all the bush animals want to be the new Easter Bunny.  After all, Easter wouldn’t be the same without eggs!  But how can the rabbits choose the best animal for the job? The lop-eared rabbit has an idea – and that’s when the Easter games begin.

ISBN: 978 1 876288 77 8 250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $24.95
Full colour

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Alberta
Tania Cox & Janine Dawson

Nothing Alberta does is small.  So when her parents tell her she will soon be a BIG sister she is very excited.  But on the day the eggs arrive Alberta can’t help being a little disappointed. 

A great book for introducing children to the idea of having a new sibling – or possibly even two!

A 2008 CBC Notable Book: Early Childhood

ISBN 978 1 876288 86 0
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $24.95 Full colour

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Cat
Mike Dumbleton & Craig Smith

Share a day with Cat and find out how exciting, exhausting, and downright dangerous life can be!  A warm, funny picture book for children aged 2-3.

Winner of the 2007 Advertiser Little Big Book Windmill Performing Arts Picture Book to Performance Award

Honour Book 2008 CBC Book of the Year: Early Childhood

ISBN 978 1876288 80 8
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $19.95
Full colour

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You and Me: Our Place
Leonie Norrington & Dee Huxley

At the edge of a northern Australian city, where river and mangroves reach the sea, two young boys join Uncle Tobias for a day of fishing and hunting.

Leonie Norrington's beautiful text and Dee Huxley's lush, vibrant illustrations create a world in which the old and new cultures exist comfortably together and children move easily between them.

Shortlisted 2008 CBC Book of the Year: Picture Book

ISBN 978 1876288 79 2
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $24.95
Full colour

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Piglet & Papa
Margaret Wild & Stephen Michael King

Piglet is feeling a little unsure of herself.

Horse, Sheep, Donkey, Duck and Dog all tell her they love her - but someone else loves her a million times more! Who can it be?

A 2008 CBC Notable Book: Early Childhood

ISBN 1 876288 75 4
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $24.95
Full colour

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You Must Be Joking!
Mike Dumbleton & Greg Holfeld

Superhero Jason and his faithful companion, Yapper, take on the task of rescuing the world’s best soccer player from a gang of kidnappers on the other side of the world..
Despite all odds and his
parents’ warnings, boy and dog survive tornadoes, fires and crocodile infested swamps and return victorious.

ISBN 978 1876288 67 9
280 x 230 mm
HB 32 pp $19.95
Full colour

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For we are all travellers on the wheel of life.
We halt, we pause and take new births.

Samsara Dog lived many lives. Coming back again and again didn’t worry him. He lived each life as it came until one day he learned the most important lesson of all..
A picture book for older children that looks at life, love and dying from a Buddhist perspective.

A 2007 CBC Notable Book: Younger Readers

ISBN 978 1876288 62 4
280 x 230 mm
HB 40 pp $29.95
Full colour, Cloth binding

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The Smallest Bilby and the Midnight Star
Nette Hilton & Bruce Whatley

Every night the smallest bilby in the bilby patch looks up at the midnight sky and searches for his favourite star. Every night she shines down on him. But one night, fearful that she may go away and never come back, he decides to give her something that will make her remember him - forever and always.

ISBN 978 1876288 71 6
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp $24.95
Full colour

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The Adventures of Edgar
Remington the Third
John Moreton & Terry Denton

Edgar Remington the Third has always wanted to sail to the other side of the world. But in his eagerness to leave he has forgotten his map and his compass. Now he’s lost!

ISBN 978 1876288 63 1
280 x 230 mm
HB 40 pp $15.95
Full colour

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