Puggle

Ballroom Bonanza

Tom Tom

Puggle
Catriona Hoy & Andrew Plant

When Puggle the baby echidna is found on the side of the road in his dead mother’s pouch, he is tiny, blind and helpless. At first Puggle must be taught how to suckle milk from his carer’s hand. Then, as he grows older, he must learn all the skills he will need to survive in the wild.

This heart-warming story of an orphaned echidna will entrance young readers.

ISBN 978 1 921504 01 3
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp RRP $24.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ

Ballroom Bonanza
Nina Rycroft

An animal ABC with a difference. Join alpacas, bears, camels and a host of other animals as they conga, can-can and hip-hop the night away.

Find out why the jaguar blushed and what happened to the elephants when the music stopped.

A sumptuous, playful picture book with a dash of mystery and a lot of monkey business.

ISBN 978 1 876288 93 8
305 x 250 mm
HB 40 pp RRP $27.95
Full colour

Rights Available: Foreign Language rights only

Piglet and Granny
Margaret Wild & Stephen Michael King

Piglet loves her granny. She’s been waiting all day
for her to visit. Why hasn’t she come? Cow, Horse, Duck, and Sheep all think she’ll be here soon—but what is taking her so long?

Piglet’s story will resonate with any child who has ever had to wait patiently for someone they love.

A companion to Piglet and Mama and Piglet and Papa.

ISBN 978 1 921504 02 0
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp RRP $24.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ, USA, Canada and Brazil

What Will Baby Do?
Mike Dumbleton & Craig Smith

What will Baby do? Turn the pages to find out!

A book to enchant all babies, from the team
that created the award-winning picture book Cat.

ISBN 978 1 876288 96 9
250 x 240 mm
HB 32 pp RRP $19.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ

Captain Congo and the Maharaja’s Monkey
Ruth Starke & Greg Holfeld

When the Maharaja of Bekar dies suddenly and mysteriously, Captain Congo and his loyal offsider Pug are despatched by the Agency to investigate. They arrive in India to find the Palace of Rajputana teeming with intrigue.

While Pug goes deep under cover, the ever-observant
Captain Congo races against time to unravel the villains’ plot.

ISBN 978 1 921504 04 4
290 x 230 mm
HB 48 pp RRP $24.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ

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

Rights Available: World rights excluding ANZ

Shortlisted 2009 CBC Picture Book of the Year

Crocodile River
Diana Lawrenson & Danny Snell

Life is dangerous for Cranky the saltwater crocodile. Even before she is hatched, wild pigs and goannas come searching for her mother’s eggs. Sea eagles swoop on her tiny hatchling brothers and sisters. Older crocodiles chase her away. Humans come hunting.

Every day is one of survival, until Cranky discovers she has outgrown her enemies and is mature enough to establish her own family.

An absorbing story about the life cycle of a saltwater crocodile, full of fascinating facts.

ISBN 978 1 876288 92 1
280 x 230 mm
Hardback 32 pp RRP $24.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ and Korea

Look, Baby!
Penny Matthews & Cheryl Orsini

Baby in the morning,
As bright as you can be!
Look around your bedroom.
What things can you see?

A bright, colourful ‘pictionary’ that introduces babies to the words for more than sixty objects they see around them every day while waking, eating, dressing, playing and bathing.

Guaranteed to absorb very young children, and to put them on the path towards independent reading.

ISBN 978 1 876288 95 2
250 x 240 mm
HB 24 pp RRP $19.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ

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

Rights Available: World rights excluding ANZ

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

Rights Available: World rights excluding ANZ, USA & Canada

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 $14.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World rights excluding ANZ

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

Rights Available: World rights excluding ANZ

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

Rights Available: World rights excluding ANZ

Honour Book 2009 CBC Book of the Year: Early Childhood

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

Rights Available: World rights excluding ANZ

Baby Gets Dressed
Katrina Germein & Sascha Hutchinson

It’s time to get dressed. But what will Baby wear?
Help Baby choose.

A perfect interactive book for parents and babies and a great way of introducing Baby to the words for familiar objects.

ISBN 978 1 921504 00 6
175 x 165 mm
Board Book 24 pp RRP $14.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ

See Me Move
Sascha Hutchinson & Heidi Linehan

See me wriggle, crawl and squirm.
Watch me tumble, twist and turn.
Join me as I dance and sway.
See me move!

Babies will love this colourful photographic board book featuring sixteen different toddlers on the move. 

Winner 2008 The Advertiser Little Big Book Club Baby Book

ISBN 978 1 876288 88 4
175 x 165 mm
Board Book 24 pp RRP $14.95
Full colour

Rights Available: World excluding ANZ