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August 2011
The Learning Ladder
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Toddler 16 Preschool
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Starter Stiles
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DK Made Easy
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Lower Primary
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Young Fiction
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Upper Primary
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Family Reference
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What parents will love: •
An expert guide to health, body image, sex and relationships by one of Australia’s most trusted writers on issues concerning women
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The best friend in the form of a book, a complete guide to how to get your life together and face any challenge at any age
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It’s the ultimate fib detector - Kaz sifted the facts and tested the claims, exposing the lies women are told about cosmetics, other products, and their health
Why it is great for parents: •
Three years in preparation with quotes and comments of more than 7000 people from all over the world, Women’s Stuff will save you money and make you happier!
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First Words Picture Puzzle Box (page 23) What children and parents will love: •
Bright beautiful DK photography
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20 puzzles in one gift box with handle that makes keeping the puzzles together easy
Why it is great for children and parents: •
Young children can start by piecing together the pictures and progress to spelling words
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Great for developing spelling skills and increasing children’s confidence
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Introduces children to spelling in a fun, accessible way
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BrainBox Australia (Page 59)
Alien Robots Kit (Page 60)
What children and parents will love:
What children and parents will love:
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Learn fun facts about Australia
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There are 6 eye-catching Alien Robot models to build again and again
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Bright, colourful illustrations
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Stunning graphics and photographs help children to safely construct and play with the models
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Easy to play, and multi-levels mean that adults and children can play together or by themselves!
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Includes a graphic novel companion book that brings the story of the Alien Robots to life!
Why it is great for children and parents: •
Fun and educational game for the whole family to play
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Helps children with memory training
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Contains great general knowledge about Australia, its history, places and people
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Feature Products
Women’s Stuff (page 3)
Why it is great for children and parents: •
Children can learn about physics while they play
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Each model is used to highlight a new area of science, including friction, vibrations, and gears. Even the electrical circuit that brings the models to life is explored and explained in a way that is easy to grasp.
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How to Get Things Done
365 Thank Yous
Losing the Last 5 Kilos
Are you overwhelmed by loose ends and unfinished projects? Do you despair of finding time to concentrate on the bigger picture? This book offers powerful, practical strategies for vastly increasing your organisation, efficiency and creativity – in work and life. Personal productivity expert David Allen shows how to cut through the clutter in your mind, on your desk and on your PC to get a lot more done with a lot less effort.
One recent December, at age 53, John Kralik found his life at a terrible, frightening low. All aspects of his life seemed to be failing: his relationships with his children and partner, his work, his health. Then, hiking on New Year’s Day, John was struck by the thought that his life might become at least tolerable if he could be grateful for what he had.
Lose 5 kilos in 30 days. It sounds straightforward and it is. Losing the Last 5 Kilos gives you all the information you need to get back to your perfect size.
• 198 x 129mm • 288pp • PB #00181
$26.95
365 Thank Yous is a rare memoir, its touching message delivered in the plainspoken storytelling of an ordinary man. To read 365 Thank Yous is to be changed. • 198 x 129mm • 240pp • PB #65413
• Day-by-day menu plans, with weekly shopping lists • Michelle’s favourite low-cal but filling recipes • Easy-to-follow, highintensity exercises, with step-by-step photos • Michelle’s best tips for success • 235 x 189mm • 176pp • PB
$19.95
# 74815
$29.95
New
New Crunch Time Confidence Gap
Persuasion
This is a hands-on, self-help guide that has a gentler, more thoughtful approach to teaching confidence than the typically aggressive/peppy self-help approach. It is instructive, reassuring and gentle in tone, which will appeal to women as well as men and the business market.
Persuasion will boost your persuasive and intuitive skills to amazing new levels and will help you achieve more in every area of your personal life, professional life and wherever interpersonal skills are at the fore. Learn the power of words; how to be an effective listener; how to develop and enhance your memory; how to control the attention of others and how to read body language and other non-verbal signs.
• 229 x 152mm • 288pp • PB #18966
$29.95
• 216 x 140mm • 312pp • PB #34161
$24.95
So you want to lose weight? Why settle for half a kilo here and there when you can lose MORE weight FASTER - and keep it off! Michelle Bridges, expert trainer from The Biggest Loser, is here to help you do it. Drop weight fast with Michelle’s: • Intensive 12-week workout • Easy-to-follow menu plans • Irresistible recipes • No-nonsense motivational guide • Training tips and secrets • 262 x 212mm • 212pp • PB #72972
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Women’s Stuff
Girl Stuff
Now you have a baby, what on earth are you going to do with it? Kaz Cooke delivers all the up-to-date, reliable information, with advice from the experts, including real mums and dads. Kidwrangling is funny, reassuring and practical, with no judgemental guru-speak about the right way to do things — just a range of great solutions for you to choose from.
Whether you’re starting or ending a relationship, a friend has found a lump in her breast, you’re in debt, or you don’t know whether to believe the moisturiser label, Women’s Stuff is your must-have guide, from leaving school to menopause and beyond. It’s a best friend in book form, a complete guide to how to get your life together and face any challenge at any age.
Teen suicide, bullying, online dangers, celebrity ‘role models’ – girls (and their adults) urgently need help. Kaz Cooke’s Girl Stuff is funny, reassuring, practical, non-judgemental, and based on extensive research and the input of leading professionals. Girl Stuff will help every girl feel more confident about growing up and finding her own path.
It covers the practical side of life, including work, money and homemaking, as well as getting to know and make friends with your body, family, mental and physical health, and sex and relationships.
Ages 12+ • 230 x 185mm • 564pp • PB
• 230 x 152mm • 652pp • PB #73986 $45.00
#28870
$39.95
245 x 185mm • 896pp • HB #73696 $59.95
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Ready, Set, Go? One of the most significant milestones in a young child’s life is starting school. But how do you know if your child is ready to take this big step? This book is an essential guide to help you make this decision. Educational and parenting expert Kathy Walker explains all the important factors to consider and gives you the information you need to be confident you’re making the right decision for your child. She also provides advice on how to prepare your child for school and explains the strategies schools use to familiarise children - and their parents - with school. • 164 x 138mm • 192pp • PB #65420 $19.95
For the Parent
Kidwrangling
Parenting 100% Me: The How, Why and When of Growing Up From growth spurts to sex education, this straight-talking but fun guide to how girls and boys grow up will tell your child everything they need to know, and comes packed with cool graphics, quizzes and loads of answers to common questions. Ages 7+ • 217 x 170mm • 96 pp • HB #21907 $19.95
Being a parent isn’t always easy! In Parenting, expert parenting and educational consultant Kathy Walker shows you how to create a calm and nurturing home environment for you and your children, as well as strategies for managing challenging behaviour. Kathy offers advice on handling everyday family situations such as fighting between siblings as well as challenges related to school, friendship, and families. • 230 x 152mm • 272pp • PB #74228 $32.95
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Babycenter Pregnancy: From Preconception to Birth
Babycenter Baby: The All-Important First Year
Locally adapted for the Australian market this up-to-theminute guide to preconception, pregnancy, birth and the first few weeks with your baby, combines expert advice from health professionals with shared experience, suggestions and tips from parents, taken from the Babycenter online community.
Specially adapted for the Australian market this up-to-theminute guide covers all the essentials for your baby’s first year, with a special focus on the most frequently discussed topics on Babycenter, from sleep to solids. Find out what to expect at every stage, with inspiring advice on bonding and practical care to keep your child happy and healthy, including an invaluable medical section.
With top tips on practical care, understanding your emotions and a host of suggestions from other Babycenter mums who have been there too!
#37922
Reinforce the loving bond between you and your child with easy-to-learn massage techniques that soothe and promote all-round wellbeing. • Safe and soothing massage routines to settle babies to sleep • Therapeutic routines for easing common ailments, including colic and teething pain • Written by a consultant child psychologist and a health visitor, who run successful sleep and crying clinics • 235 x 183mm • 96pp • PB
• 235 x 196mm • 320pp • PB #37984
• 235 x 196mm • 320pp • PB
Baby Massage
#04344
$39.95
When Your Child is Ill
$39.95
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New Parenting by Heart
The Babysense Secret
Bringing a new baby home can be one of the most intimidating experiences of our lives and can fill us with selfdoubt. But in order to nurture our child, parenting expert Pinky McKay says we must maintain our own sense of worth. Pinky's techniques are based on the latest scientific research but always come back to her philosophy that every parent and child is unique, and that parents need to follow their hearts rather than a onesize-fits-all model.
A gentle routine for your baby, trusted by thousands of mums, from bestselling author Megan Faure. The Babysense Secret is based on the simple idea, that by observing your baby, you can determine when he wants to sleep, feed, or interact with you and thereby establish a routine structured around your baby’s needs. This routine will lay the groundwork for a calm and contented first year, ensuring positive early sensory experiences leading to a happier childhood.
#48232
An illustrated quick-reference guide with authoritative information on major childhood diseases and disorders. Comprehensive question and answer charts help you make informed decisions about your child’s health. • 235 x 185mm • 216pp • PB #34817
$29.95
How to Raise an Amazing Child A practical parenting program for the years from birth to six to help you build a calm and happy home life with your child. Packed with enticing activities based on the Montessori method of helping children make discoveries about their world and foster independence.
• 235 x 183mm • 224pp • PB
$24.95
• 230 x 152mm • 352pp • PB #75089 $35.00
• 235 x 185mm • 192pp • PB #12998
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The Princess Bitchface Syndrome
Questions Children Ask
What to do when your previously quiet, loving daughter becomes a restless, rebellious stranger who behaves like a responsible adult one day and a vampish brat the next. We appear to be losing it when it comes to parenting our girls and it’s time to grab back the reins.
This indispensable rescue manual helps you answer all your children’s difficult questions with honesty, sensitivity and confidence. Answers are specially tailored to suit two to eleven-year-olds with different levels of understanding. Topics include sensitive ones such as sex, having a baby, divorce and death.
With clear step-by-step instructions, you’ll find these eye-catching cakes are surprisingly easy to make. The comprehensive introduction includes baking tips, decorating techniques and shopping suggestions. You’ll also find recipes for basic cakes and icings, and all the templates you’ll need. • 200 x 192mm • 252pp • PB #06446 $24.95
New GuItar What you’ll need • 1 × slab cake (27 cm × 32 cm/ 10½ in × 12½ in)
• templates (pages 198–99) • decorative cake board • 2 quantities basic icing (page 28) • 2 quantities buttercream icing (page 26)
tIMelIne one day before: Bake and ice the cake, and make fondant
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on the day: Decorate the cake.
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• gel paste food colouring:
Bake the cake, then turn out
• 1 × 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) packet
Level the top of the cake, then use the templates provided to cut out the guitar shapes. Assemble the cake pieces on the cake board. Apply a crumb coat of basic icing and set aside to dry.
blue, black
white fondant
• 2 cm (¾ in) round cutter • 2 piping bags • 2 mm (⅛ in) round piping nozzle • ½ quantity royal icing (page 30) • large silver or gold cachous • #7/15 mm (⅝ in) star piping nozzle • silver edible glitter
and allow to cool.
Set aside 5 tablespoons of buttercream icing in a small bowl. Colour the remaining buttercream blue. Reserve 4 tablespoons of blue buttercream, then use the rest to ice the main part of the guitar. Using the reserved uncoloured buttercream, ice the neck and head of the guitar. Refrigerate the cake. Roll out the fondant to a thickness of 5 mm (¼ in). Use the template provided to cut out the pickguard. Place the pickguard on a tray lined with baking paper and set aside to dry. Use the black gel paste to colour the leftover fondant grey, then roll it out to a thickness of 5 mm (¼ in).
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• 164 x 138mm • 180pp • PB #04660
$19.95
• 256 x 193mm • 96pp • PB #03569
100 Ways to Happy Children Dr. Tim Sharp is a clinical psychologist at the forefront of positive parenting. In 100 concise chapters he establishes his positive techniques to raise happy, well-adjusted kids, derived from cutting-edge world research. Perfect for the busy parent, Tim simplifies the enigma of parenting, giving user-friendly instructions and simple, clear advice on how to develop a happy family and well-adjusted kids. • 197 x 130mm • 194pp • PB #38101 $24.95
These cakes are guaranteed to add a sparkle to any celebration. There are 49 inspired designs, with easy-tofollow, step-by-step instructions, to make creating these masterpieces child’s play. • 200 x 192mm • 252pp • PB #38149 $24.95
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Best Seller Kids’ Parties This sanity-saving book sets out everything you need to know about organising parties. There are great ideas for themes, games, activities, decorations, invitations and more! • 220 x 165mm • 144pp • PB #P05179
Party Cakes
$29.95
For the Parent
Hip Hip Hooray A spectacular homemade cake can make a great party unforgettable. Children and adults alike will have a ball deciding which of the 50 inspired cakes to make first: the submarine, the robot, or perhaps the lollypop cottage?
$24.95
Playtime Play is one of the most basic aspects of a young child’s life, but by the time we have children of our own, many of us have lost confidence in our ability to play. Mother and daughter Elspeth & Fiona Richards explain why play is so important, and what role parents can play in ‘play’. • 213 x 149mm • 208pp • PB # 07869 $24.95
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Organic Baby & Toddler Cookbook
Favourite Recipes for Your Baby & Toddler
New Guide to Medicines & Drugs
How to prepare quick, delicious and nutritious meals for your baby and toddler. Fresh, additive-free natural foods are essential for the healthy development of all children. Including essential nutritional information for each stage of your child’s development – from birth to preschool – this inspiring cookbook is much more than a tempting collection of recipes. It is your guide to introducing your child to healthy eating habits for life.
With essential nutritional information and expert tips, Annabel offers 75 new recipes for purées and finger foods, dishes to tempt fussy eaters and meals for the whole family.
Fully updated quick-reference guide to drugs for anyone wanting to know more about the medication they’re taking from Australia’s leading authority, the Royal College of General Practitioners. Essential guidance for anyone taking medication, or wanting to know more about the major drugs used in common medical practice.
• 233 x 211mm • 144pp • PB
• 235 x 283mm • 192pp • PB
#34372
#66571
$29.95
Menu planners for each agerange and handy fill-in pages so you can record your child’s reactions to new foods, and your own menus and recipe variations, makes this an exciting and essential addition to any parent’s bookshelf.
• 235 x 184mm • 512pp • PB #36277
$39.95
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$29.95
Feeding Your Baby & Toddler Mums’ favourite, Annabel Karmel’s best-selling guide to feeding your baby and toddler. The link between the food children eat and their health is widely recognised today. Armed with this easy-to-use cookbook, discover how to prepare enticing food to give your child the best start in life. Cook up to 200 delicious recipes, from healthy breakfasts and tempting food for fussy eaters, to lunchbox ideas and meals for the whole family to share. • 255 x 195mm • 192pp • PB #59788
$29.95
Complete Home Medical Guide
What to Feed When More than 400 Q&As guide you through the many issues you may encounter, with tips on when to wean and advice on allergies. 50 tasty ‘recipes to the rescue’ help to solve key challenges such as how to ensure your child is getting enough omega-3s and how to sneak vegetables into your fussy toddler’s diet. • 217 x 170mm • 224pp • PB #62085
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The medical reference for every Australian home, this is the most accessible and authoritative source of up-to-date medical and health information available. The Complete Home Medical Guide will answer all your questions and provide all you need to know to participate effectively in your family’s health care. • 265 x 205mm • 1104pp • HB #31176 Was $99.95
Now $69.95
Food Intolerance Management Plan
Entertaining the easy way! Bring family and friends together for great food and good company with the help of this terrific recipe collection. Whether you’re planning a barbecue, a sit-down dinner or a quick and easy meal, Eating at Home is all you need for a perfect night in.
An informative and user-friendly guide to understanding food intolerances, including irritable bowel syndrome, coeliac disease and dairy intolerance. Also includes a collection of 80 simple, family-friendly recipes, designed to show how people with food intolerances can still get a great deal of pleasure out of cooking and eating, with chapters on Light Meals, Main Meals, Baking and Desserts.
• 261 x 222mm • 208pp • PB #02943 $29.95
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Eating at Home
• 240 x 240mm • 264pp • PB #74419 $35.00
The Diabetes Cooking Book Managing your diet is the key to good diabetes control. With recipes for lunch, dinner and healthy snacks, The Diabetes Cooking Book is guaranteed to tempt your taste buds whilst contributing to your health and well-being. Featuring over 250 delicious recipes, each recipe has a simple points system that allows users to track their glucose, saturated fat and cholesterol intake to balance their diet – the key to staying healthy. • 238 x 204mm • 352pp • HB #41783 $39.95
Favourite Mince Recipes
Allergy-Friendly Cookbook Showcasing more than 100 delicious recipes for people who need to avoid nuts, dairy, gluten or eggs, with each recipe offering a variation for each allergen. There’s also reassuring advice and tips, particularly for parents of children with allergies and food intolerance. • 244 x 187mm • 224pp • HB #35867 $39.95
Versatile, delicious and economical, there’s never been a better time to discover the delights of cooking with mince. Get ready to throw out any preconceived notions you may have that mince is an old-fashioned or humdrum ingredient - with this book you’ll discover just how tasty, easy-to-use and endlessly versatile mince can be. • 201 x 193mm • 180pp • PB #02905 $24.95
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VTech Exclusive TLL Range TLL would like to present our exclusive VTech Baby Range! The VTech Baby range has been designed to bring out the best in babies, infants and toddlers by encouraging them to play, learn and discover. These development toys stimulate the senses and imagination by introducing age-appropriate concepts such as shapes, colours, objects, numbers and letters. These baby toys develop a child’s mental and physical abilities as they inspire, engage and, of course, teach.
VTech Splash and Squirt Elephant
VTech Roll and Learn Pooh Ball
Enjoy bath time every day! Fun bath time sounds, phrases, songs and melodies encourage play and motor skill development. Learn about bath objects and counting to help with first words and sensory stimulation. The soap will be the only slippery thing in the bath, as elephant’s suction cup will securely fit him to the bottom of the bath. Water sprays from his truck and the flower on his belly lights up; you’ll have a splashing time!
Roll the ball to activate the motion sensor and hear music, sounds and cute sing-along songs. Press the light-up shape buttons to hear them introduce 1-2-3, shapes, sounds and music through 2 modes of play. Tigger, Pooh and Piglet character buttons play fun responses. Watch the lights flash along with the sounds.
Huggable plush cow with a grabbable plastic ring features 2 light-up push buttons and a spinning block that teach a-b-c, 1-2-3, shapes and colours with fun phrases, and a sing-along song. Let your little one get creative by jamming fun sounds into recognisable melodies. Baby can learn about cause and effect, by pressing the buttons and sliding the beads. Also encourages motor skills. Ages 3m–18m • 200 x 190 x 110mm #64322 $39.95
Encourages motor skills and language development, and is lots of fun for baby! Ages 6m–24m • 200 x 190 x 160mm #64346 $54.95
Ages 12m+ • 180 x 240 x 110mm #64339 $59.95
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First Focus Library
This award-winning series provides a feast for the senses and an ideal start to first books for children to enjoy and share with parents. Each book is gorgeously colourful and fun; filled with smiling faces and lots of touch-and-feel elements. The rounded corners and sturdy pages make them perfect for babies and toddlers to handle. Ages 6m–18m • 260 x 260mm • BB
Beep! Beep! #07914 Playbook #30465
Twinkle Lullaby Book #08485 $16.95 each
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Baby Touch: Big Noisy Playbook
Baby Touch: Peepo Teddy
The bright colours and bold images encourage focusing skills and there is also a built-in shiny crinkle, soft padded rattle and clicky dial to stimulate developing senses and hand eye coordination.
Look at the bright pictures on the left-hand pages. Who’s in the boat? Who’s in the house? Lift the flaps to reveal the friendly animal characters residing there – peepo!
Ages 6m–18m • 260 x 260mm • 12pp • BB #05828 $19.95
Ages 6m–18m • 147 x 133mm • 10pp • BB #08287 $12.95
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This delightful boxed set is specially designed to stimulate very young babies’ developing eyesight through high-contrast shapes and patterns. It contains three brand new sturdy books with bold black, white and yellow images that will captivate all babies from birth. 3 book set: Ages 6m–18m Faces, Patterns, • 183 x 179mm Things That Go • 36pp • BB #35057 $16.95
Baby
Baby Touch
Snuggle Book Very young babies will love snuggling up with this soft, padded cloth book with a crinkle noise on every page! Stroking the sheep’s woolly tummy, rubbing the shiny butterfly and feeling the dog’s velvety ear will help to stimulate developing senses. Ages 6m–18m • 225 x 185mm • 8pp • Cloth #30397 $16.95
Baby Touch Cot Cloth Book A sensory feast for babies, stimulating growing minds and active senses. Ages 6m–18m • 270 x 260 x 70mm • 10pp • Cloth #60364
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TLL Baby Sign Learning Kit
Baby’s Busy World
Imagine your baby telling you exactly what they want before they start crying, and long before they can talk. This baby sign language learning kit provides everything you need to start using sign language to communicate with your baby.
A first word and picture book for babies and parents to enjoy together. Bright, lively pictures provide plenty to talk about, and rhyming, read-aloud text for babies to listen to. Simple questions introduce colours, shapes, and other first concepts.
Contains: • 20 First Word Flash Cards • 20 removable stickers for placing around the house • A2 poster with 20 early word signs • DVD Dictionary containing over 200 signs and a fun quiz • Signs That Move – amazing interactive 2D flashcards • Comprehensive parents guide to answer all your questions and give you plenty of tips and information to get you started.
Ages 9m+ • 276 x 216mm • 26pp • BB #09059
Peter Rabbit: Ten Juicy Radishes Ten Juicy Radishes is a sturdy board book that can be read again and again. As each page is turned, the number of holes in the page - and the number of radishes - goes down, providing a really vivid illustration of the mechanics of counting. Ages 6m+ • 204 x 263mm • 22pp • BB #66969 $19.95
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All signs depicted are Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Ages 6m–3 • 160 x 440 x 70mm #62977 Now $59.95
New I Can Eat a Rainbow Get your child eating all the colours of the rainbow! Simple text will encourage them to try new foods, and handy parent notes give lots of nutritional facts and helpful advice on encouraging healthy eating. Perfect for turning fussy eaters into healthy eaters! Ages 12m+ • 214 x 163mm • 18pp • BB #39063 $12.95
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Peter Rabbit Finger Puppet Book This simple counting book with a soft finger puppet of Peter Rabbit will really help adults to bring the pages alive. The Peter Rabbit puppet is cleverly stitched into the book so it can’t get lost, and is integral to every page! Ages 6m+ • 210 x 140mm • 12pp • BB #66396 $16.95
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Night Night Peter Rabbit: Luxury Cloth Book A delightful, incredibly soft cloth book featuring squeaks and rustles alongside very simple text and images in the classic Beatrix Potter style that baby will love. Packaged in a smart box, this is a perfect gift for a special new baby. Ages 6m+ • 190 x 190mm • 6pp • Cloth #66556 $24.95
A special book for you and your baby to share. With an embossed fabric spine and a novelty photo frame within the cover, this book can even be personalised with your very own photograph.
Peekaboo! Play baby’s favourite game with these interactive novelty flap books. Exciting touch-and-feel elements make these delightful books instantly appealing.
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Ages 6m+ • 180 x 180mm • 12pp • BB Bathtime #09210 Bedtime #12769 Eyes, Nose, Toes #31487 Playtime #09229 Rainbow Colours #31593 $12.95 each
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Play peekaboo with your baby and hear them giggle in delight as hidden baby faces are revealed! Lift the giant flaps, then explore the soft, shiny and bumpy textures, plus baby’s very own mirror!
Ages 6m+ • 130 x 130mm • 12pp • BB
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Baby Faces
Baby
Mummy Loves Me
Daddy and baby moments are lovingly captured in the most adorable close-up photography, while the warm and gentle rhyming text is perfect for reading aloud. Ages 6m+ • 133 x 133mm • 16pp • BB #34643 $10.95
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Buggy Books With their tough board pages and detachable strap and clip, these mini board books are perfect for entertaining little ones on the go, and can be attached to a buggy, cot or highchair. Ages 6m+ • 90 x 90mm • 12pp • BB
Baby Touch Smile! #04456 Colours: Tinga Tinga Tales #31614 Green Sheep #04610
Peter Rabbit #66648 Very Hungry Caterpillar #85105
$9.95 each
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My Little Carry Books A great new series for babies and young toddlers on the go! With six bright photographic spreads and rhyming read-aloud text, these small die-cut books encourage speaking and development of early reading skills. The tactile, easy-grip format is lots of fun for children. They can play as they learn, developing bookhandling skills, language, and reading readiness, and finding out about colours and animals. Ages 12m+ • 165 x 120mm • 14pp • BB
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Animals #62603 Colours #62610
$7.95 each
My First Books Here’s an old favourite with a great new look! These colourful first word-and-picture books are specially designed to introduce first concepts and early learning topics to babies and young toddlers. With a stimulating mix of lively pictures and large, simple text, the My First Board Book series provides many talking points for parents and children and helps develop vocabulary. Ages 12m+ • 150 x 120mm • 36pp • BB
Abc #59429 Animal #59412 Body #59450
Colours #59443 Numbers #59436 Word #59405
$9.95 each
Perfect for introducing young children to some of the more exotic animal species while also teaching them their own special place in the world, this great new title from award-winning author Mem Fox covers themes of security, love and family. Ages 6m+ • 170 x 166mm • 32pp • BB #04139 $16.95
Pop-Up Peekaboo! Perfect for reading aloud and encouraging early word recognition, your baby will love the new pop-outs. The latest addition to DK’s highly successful, award-winning Peekaboo! range, this new series features big, bold pop-ups that jump out of pages when babies lift the flaps. Great for developing imagination, early-thinking and memory skills. Ages 6m+ • 220 x 212 mm • 12pp • BB
Farm #62887 Playtime #62870
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Noisy Peekaboo!
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes This hugely popular picture book is now in adorable board book format, perfect for little fingers to hold! An irresistible story celebrating babies everywhere and the love every mother feels for her child. Ages 6m+ • 170 x 190mm • 38pp • BB #53583
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Hello Baby!
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These larger format board books are part of the award-winning Peekaboo! range and have two favourite preschool novelties – noises and lift-the-flap surprises! Littlies can search for the five sounds hiding under flaps in these colourful titles. Perfect for developing observation skills, language skills, memory, and manual dexterity, this delightful, high-quality novelty series is great fun! Ages 9m+ • 240 x 240 mm • 12pp • BB
Baa! Baa! #37007 Beep! Beep! #37014 Choo! Choo! #52697 Toot! Toot! #56879 Roar! Roar! #52659 Woof! Woof! #41356
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Laddie Activity Doll All dressed up and ready to teach, this gorgeous, bright and fun velour activity doll with embroidered face is made by Russ and is the perfect companion for little ones. His overalls and shirt are removable, to help them learn basic dressing skills using buttons, zippers, press studs and Velcro. And the washable surface makes him perfect for encouraging learning in young children aged 12 months plus. With laces to untie, zippers to unzip, and snaps and buttons to be undone, youngsters will be fascinated with this bright and colourful friend.
Young babies and toddlers will love looking at the colourful pictures in the My First Series. Pointing to the characters in the pictures or pointing to the letters and saying them aloud will help your child to develop early word skills and to start to recognize simple words. Ages 12m+ • 246 x 212mm • 12pp • BB
My First ABC #07891 My First Rhymes #07884
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Baby Touch and Feel Board Books
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Teach your baby all about the familiar things around them with the touch and feel textures in these great padded board books. Let their little hands roam and feel just how feathery a duckling is, and how cuddly a teddy bear feels. They’ll learn as you play together. With soft, bumpy, scaly, silky, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package, these books are perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and young minds to develop. Ages 6m+ • 130 x 130mm • 14pp • BB
Baby Animals #36765 Bedtime #36802 Farm #29125 Things That Go #50167 Tractor #62573 Trucks #29118
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Jerry the Giraffe
A great way to read and explore Eric Carle’s classic picture book, this interactive gift set combines the bestselling board book with colourful number and picture blocks which can be used to: • count along from 1-10 • match numbers and colours with all the things he eats • build picture puzzles of the very hungry caterpillar and the beautiful butterfly
Jerry the Giraffe is such a fun and cute way to provide children with those essential hand-eye coordination exercises, with stacking, shape sorting and roly poly elements all rolled into one, as well as bright colours that make playtime so much fun! Kids will love taking Jerry apart and putting him back together time and time again.
Ages 12m+ • Box 120 x 187mm • 24pp • Box #39672 $24.95
Ages 12m+ • Box 170 x 170 x 170mm • Colours may vary #56716 $26.00
Rhyming Flap Books Ladybird’s Peekaboo series is a lovely first lift-the-flap range for babies and young toddlers! There is a mirror on the last page, so baby can have the excitement of finding themselves in the picture! The classic game of Peekaboo is brought to life in these gorgeous books, perfect as a gift for babies and young children. Ages 12m+ • 210 x 210mm • BB
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book and Block Set
Peekaboo Baby! (10pp) #07242 Peekaboo Moo! (10pp) #07099 Peekaboo Moon! (12pp) #07235 Peekaboo Zoo! (10pp) #07228
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Peepo! Gift Box 30th Anniversary PEEPO! has become a classic for babies and toddlers. It follows a baby through the day in a style full of wit, charm and ingenuity. A series of holes peeping through to the next page leads the child on to the next stage in the day, giving a hint of what is to come. An original book that has long delighted young children and now with a gorgeous soft plush teddy.
My First Spin & Match Puzzle This fantastic two-piece puzzle features nine mummy and baby animals at home in their natural habitats. When the puzzles have been pieced together, spin the wheel to find the colour or pattern that matches mummy! Ages 12m–3yrs •215 x 215 x 95mm #62502
Ages 12m+ • Box 150 x 168mm • 32pp • Box #37081 $24.95
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Peepo! A touch and feel series with a difference - take a peek! Have fun reading with your toddler as you turn the pages of these special touch-and-feel books. Can they guess what’s peeping through the peephole? Is it a red checked hat, or a bright bouncy ball? Turn the page to find the answer! Ages 18m+ • 200 x 200mm • 14pp • BB
Peepo: Farm #45422 Peepo: First Words #45415
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Beautifully illustrated First Favourite Nursery Rhymes and First Favourite Fairy Tales books with tabs, this series is perfect for toddlers. These lovely books have squishy padded covers and sturdy tabbed edges to help find and choose playtime, singalong or bedtime favourites! Contains 15 popular First Favourite Nursery Rhymes or three First Favourite Fairy Tales. Ages 18m+ • 260 x 260mm • 32pp • BB
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Ladybird First Favourite Nursery Rhymes #05729 Ladybird First Favourite Fairy Tales #09000
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This Little Books The perfect touch-and-feel book for toddlers! This new series from Ladybird features gorgeous new artwork, a chunky format full of touch and feel elements and fun, rhyming text that makes reading to little ones enjoyable for parents, whilst helping to build sensory and language awareness. Ages 18m+ • 185 x 185mm • 10pp • BB This little Fairy #08386 This little Kitten #08379 This little Monster #08393 This little Pirate #08416 This little Puppy #08362 This little Teddy #08423
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Let’s get learning with this great My First format! Each title has 13 inviting picture tabs, 13 fun-filled spreads, imaginative photographic designs, simple word labels, and stimulating questions that will keep toddlers interested and enthusiastic time and time again. With these new editions, the size of the books is just right – big enough to show lots of stimulating things, but not so big that they become too heavy and unwieldy! Age 2+ • 210 x 210mm • 28pp • BB
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Let’s Get Counting: My First Numbers #70127 Let’s Get Moving: Things that Go #70165 Let’s Get Talking: My First Words #70134 Let’s Learn Them All : My First Colours #70158 Let’s Squeak and Squawk: My First Animals #70141 Let’s Get Learning: My First Busy Day #67745
My Very Noisy Sound Series A gorgeous new sound book series for toddlers. My Very Noisy Sound books are a fun, interactive series for little girls and boys who love to have fun! There is a fun choosing game on every spread and a magical, musical sound button. Help choose your Pirate or Ballerina outfit, eat a fairy cake or drive a big, exciting truck! This sturdy board book is a perfect gift for under-fives. Age 2+ • 210 x 210mm • 12pp • BB
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My First Tabbed Board Books
My Very Jolly Pirate Sound Book #08805 My Very Noisy Digger Sound Book #08270 My Very Twinkly Fairy Sound Book #08263 My Very Twirly Ballerina Sound Book #08799
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Where is the Green Sheep? A wild, rollicking, woolly adventure in search of the Green Sheep. This best-selling book is now available as a toddler-friendly board book. Ages 18m+ • 160 x 150mm • 32pp • BB #01763
$14.95
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Stack-a-Peg
Tractor Wheelies
Featuring 20 pegs in four different shapes and five different colours, Stack-a-Peg adds a new dimension to visual discrimination and colour and shape recognition.
Babies through to young children will have hours of non-stop fun with this sturdy and durable board book on wheels.
Ages 18m+ • 145 x 180 x 58mm #1243
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Jumbo Shaped Board Books Humorous storylines and distinctive, detailed artwork make for absorbing entertainment for toddlers. Loads of visual jokes kids will love picking up! These models are specially commissioned from the Wallace and Gromit animators. Ages 2+ • 230 x 285mm • 12pp • BB
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Fire Engine #55305 Tug Boat #55313
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Ladybird BIG Noisy Books Ladybird’s Big Noisy Books are lovely, sturdy sound books with colourful illustrations and eight exciting sound buttons. Diecut tabs along the top of the book make it easy for children to pick out their favourite pages. These wonderful sound books will be adored by young toddlers who can’t get enough of big noisy books! Ages 2+ • 300 x 280mm • 10pp • 8-Button Sound Book Emergency! #05835 Farm Hullaballoo! #06689
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Whose? Lift the Flap Books Who’s that hiding on each page? Children will love guessing who the different noses, bottoms, spots and stripes belong to in this bright, sturdy lift-the-flap series from Ladybird. Read the rhyming text together and talk about what you can see in the pictures, then lift the giant flaps to reveal the animal each time. Ages 18m+ • 178 x 178mm • 10pp • BB
Whose Bottom #05606 Whose Ears #05613 Whose Feet #05620
The specially shaped format makes it feels like you’re climbing into the cab of a fire engine, a digger, or a tractor. Each of the spreads is packed with useful facts that combine with the read-aloud text and stimulating questions. Now in a bigger, better format! Digger #62924 Fire Truck #62931 Tractor #62948
Ages 2+ • 317 x 270mm • 10pp • BB
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Transport Shaped Board Books
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Whose Nose #05576 Whose Spots #05590 Whose Stripes #05583
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Noisy Noisy Books What’s that noise? Find and press the button on every page to hear a different sound each time. Encouraging interactive and imaginative play, these titles are perfect for sharing with young children, and are fun to read together again and again! Ages 2+ • 210 x 210mm • 8pp • BB • Batteries are changeable Mermaids #65284 Mooo! #67288
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Flaptastics!
Potty Time!
Discover a world of lift-the-flap surprises with this innovative series that will appeal to any child’s inquisitive nature. Perfectly sized for young children, the sturdy pages and flaps are encased in eye-catching, tactile covers. With six spreads in each book, every page is a voyage of discovery. Each surprise flap opens in a different direction to complement early-learning concepts of colours, numbers, words, shapes and sizes. Big and bold photographs combine with fresh and fun text to make each book a little learning adventure, and prompt children to discover more about each subject for themselves.
Say goodbye to nappies, it’s potty time! With a super duper liftthe-lid potty-shaped cover, these brilliant toilet training books for boys and girls will help your child make the transition from nappies to pants in no time. Full of fun rhymes and pictures that will show your child how to use the potty, it’s ideal for any place and time, from out-and-about to just before bed. Books include special reward stickers, so you and your child can celebrate their success! Ages 18m+ • 210 x 210mm • 14pp • BB
My Very First Bible
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Sing-Along Rhymes Sing along to the classic counting rhyme, explore the duckshaped and star-shaped holes and listen out for the special surprise sound at the end!
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Perfect for helping to develop first counting skills or for sharing with young children at bedtime.
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Ages 2+ • 178 x 178mm • 12pp • BB
Where is the Green Sheep Gift Set Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep? Find your very own green sheep with a copy of Mem Fox and Judy Horacek’s internationally acclaimed book in this gorgeous box set. Ages 1–5 • 255 x 235 x 135mm • 32pp • HB #73641
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Ages 2+ • 263 x 201mm • 80pp • HB
Boys’ Potty Time #52550 Girls’ Potty Time #52567
Ages 2+ • 180 x 180mm • 12pp • BB Colours #37342 First Words #62894 Numbers #55006 Shapes #37359 Sizes #54511
Stunning illustrations bring traditional bible stories to life in this very first bible for toddlers and young children.
Five Little Ducks #07945 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Sing Along #07952
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4 in a Box Puzzles - Australian Animals
Over 800 clearly labelled colour photos are grouped by category for baby to recognise. From animals and flowers to buildings and machines, this classic DK book is a must-have for every curious child. Ages 18m+ • 305 x 255mm • 62pp • HB #5466X
Introduce your child to the wonderful world of puzzles with these beautifully photographed puzzles displaying four muchloved Australian animals: a wallaby with her joey, a green tree frog, a mummy and baby koala, and a rainbow lorikeet. Each of the puzzles is graded for increasing difficulty, starting from 4 pieces up to 12 pieces, assisting children to develop their hand-eye coordination and problem-solving skills. Ages 18m+ • Box 185 x 185mm • Contains 4 puzzles with 4, 8, 10 & 12 pieces
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My First Touch and Feel Picture Cards Perfect for parents who want to help their young children develop early language skills, each themed pack contains 16 sturdy photographic cards. The cards feature exciting novelty textures and sparkly coloured foils, which reinforce learning through touch.
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Baby and Toddler’s Big Book of Everything
Developed in consultation with an expert in early education, key words are also shown in Spanish, French, German and Chinese. Farm #35836 Ages 18m+ First Words #35597 • Cards 180 x 110mm Numbers and Counting #35607 • 16 double sided cards Things That Go #35843
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Cotton Reels Cotton Reels provide 40 colourful reels in a strong plastic tub. Two metre-long nylon strings encourage two-handed coordination as well as invaluable threading, sorting, stacking and colour grouping experiences.
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Alphabet Book
Counting Book
A sumptuous A–Z book crammed with hundreds of objects to find and name. Every letter has its own theme, with riddles, questions and picture puzzles. Complete with an A–Z list of the words, how many can you find?
A photographic delight to help young children develop essential early number skills. Easy riddles and counting exercises will keep younger children amused, while more difficult questions and simple sums will engage older children.
Ages 2+ • 260 x 240mm • 24pp • HB #38189
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Hide and Seek Books Play I-spy with your toddler and they’ll learn lots of first words! Throughout each book there are lots of fun and engaging surprises to find, from 20 creepy snails and animals to a teeny tiny baby asleep in First Words. Children will want to return again and again as they try to spot all the different things. With helpful notes for parents and a wealth of talking points for parents and children to share, these books are perfect for building book confidence and encouraging speaking and listening. Ages 18m+ • 301 x 252mm • 48pp • HB
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My First Book of Time Developed with a leading educational consultant, children will learn to tell the time in no time with this interactive book, which includes notes for parents. Little hands play with the colourful foam clock, take out the removable numbers, spin the hands and play games while learning all about time. Ages 2+ • 288 x 243mm • 12pp • BB #20641 $16.95
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Early Learning Flash Cards These great flashcard packs are perfect for familiarising young children with first letters and numbers. Big chunky cards with clear text and engaging pictures are fun and easy to use. Simple games are perfect for practice at home or when travelling, and also included are 30 reward stickers, comprehensive tips for parents, and hints and ideas for fun games to play. Ages 3+ • 156 x 100 x 25mm • Contains 52 cards • 30 reward stickers
My First Wipe Clean The My First Wipe Clean books make learning fun and are specially designed for preschoolers. Each interactive title will develop your child’s pre-reading and numeracy abilities, together with concentration, object recognition, and matching skills. The book and pen combination also encourages first writing, pen control, and motor skills. Ages 3–5 • 220 x 220mm • 26pp • BB
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My First Words
Animals #58637 Farm #58620 Letters #58606 Numbers #58613
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abc #32742 123 #32759
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First Words Picture Puzzle Box This exclusive puzzle box contains 20 My First Words Puzzles, a great introduction for children to start formulating basic words.
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Young children can put the puzzles together by matching up the images, and as they develop they will be able to complete the puzzles by spelling the words. Covering everyday words such as dog, ball and house, the puzzles are accompanied by beautiful DK photography. Ages 3+ • Box 247 x 162 x 40mm #38165
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Get Ready for Kindergarten Kit
Lace Up!
The first day of kindergarten is a momentous occasion. Will your child be ready? Will you? The Get Ready for Kindergarten Kit is everything you and your child need to have a great kindergarten experience! With activity books and over 20 reusable games, this kit provides the information, advice and hands-on tools you both need to guarantee a confident, successful and happy kindergarten year!
A hands-on, interactive pop-up book that will teach little hands to tie shoes. Use the lace to thread through some fun challenges, from stringing a necklace to scoring a goal! They’ll learn threading and tying techniques, and they can even put their foot in it as the brilliant boot pops up so they can try it on for size! This amazing book supports developing core skills including manual dexterity, concentration, logic and memory.
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Boost your child’s early learning skills with these seven colourful books. Each focuses on a different skill in a fun, accessible way – from first counting and recognition of letters, shapes and colours to understanding opposites and building up vocabulary. Ages 3+ • 170mm x 112mm • Slipcase contains seven hardback books #08669 $29.95
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Spot’s Birthday Balloon Spot and his friends are going to Grandma’s birthday party and Spot is taking her a special balloon. But a strong gust of wind whisks the balloon away and Spot, Tom and Helen have quite a chase before help comes from an unexpected quarter. This book has folds on every spread which open out to reveal the next stage in Spot’s balloon hunt. Young children will love lifting the flaps to discover how the story progresses. Ages 3–5 • 218 x 211mm • 12pp • BB
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What’s That Noise, Spot?
Spot’s Essential Childhood Pack Spot is one of the essential experiences of childhood and this pack is specifically designed to encourage personal, social and emotional development. In Spot Bakes a Cake, Spot decides to surprise his dad on his birthday! First he goes shopping for tasty ingredients then he starts cooking in the kitchen – and things get a little messy!
Ages 3–5 • 210 x 215mm • 24pp • PB Pack Contains: Spot Goes to School Spot Bakes a Cake Spot Goes on Holiday Spot Visits His Grandparents
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Then follow Spot as he takes a trip to the seaside and discovers all the fun that can be had on the beach and in the water. Spot spends a day at his grandparents’ home and discovers how much fun his mum, Sally, had when she was a pup. He plays with grandma and grandpa and the visit ends with a story from one of Sally’s childhood books.
Spot’s Essential Childhood Pack #62717 $59.80
In Spot Goes to School, Spot’s first day at school turns out to be an exciting adventure! The perfect tool for parents introducing children to the concept and fun that is school.
Young Spot fans will find plenty of fun and lots to discover in this large-format 18-button sound book. Each page shows Spot in a different scene which toddlers can recognise – at home, at the farm, at school, at the seaside and at the park. Sound symbols indicate which buttons to press to make the sound effects for each location, and words are labelled to encourage young children to identify familiar objects and begin to explore the world. The book provides a wonderful interactive treat for children and adults to share. Ages 3–5 •308 x 290mm • 18-button sound boardbook #65368 $29.95
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Twist and Check Card Games These Twist and Check card games are self-checking activities which reinforce and develop your child’s reading skills in a fun way. Keyword Card Games are a great way of practising 48 keywords that all beginning readers should know, whilst Phonics Card Games practise letter sounds and rhymes to build confidence in reading. Ages 3–5 • 126 x 82 x 30mm • 6 card games • 54 game cards • 2 Parent’s Guide cards
Twist and Check Keyword Card Games #14085 Twist and Check Phonics Card Games #14077
Make-a-Word Magnets
Learning Ladder Pre-School CD-Rom
Children will love this interactive phonic spelling book. Have fun using the magnets to form words, then practise the sounds they make. Perfect for supporting first phonic learning at school.
Welcome to DK’s powerful curriculum-based learning system. Woody the pencil takes you on an incredible learning adventure involving: • Stimulating activities • A huge variety of fun exercises • Screens that monitor progress Developed with experienced teachers, this disc provides the essential literacy and numeracy skills to give your child a head start at school.
Ages 3–5 • 217 x 252mm • 10pp • BB #65581 $16.95
Ages 3–5 •190 x 133mm •CD-ROM GAME
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Dinosaur Snaps Children will love to match and sort the colourful picture cards that make up this delightful set. Four different games, each for two to four players, will bring hours of fun while teaching children to recognise dinosaurs of every shape and size. Ages 3+ • 160 x 120 x 30mm • 72 full colour cards #52985 $17.95
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These 32 double-sided, durable cardboard dominoes have been reissued with a gorgeous new design! Each new animal is featured in a colourful and fun way to teach early learners the essential skills of matching and number and colour recognition. A great game for the whole family! Ages 3+ • 152 x 152 x 76mm #5097
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My First Tell The Time Game
All the colour animals from the farm are playing in the field. The little farm helpers need to make sure all the animals are on the farm by calling them. Be the first helper to call the animal matching the colour on the dice to win. This game of quick observation will have the whole family mooing like a cow!
Developed by an educational consultant, this lotto time game for young children is an entertaining way to introduce them to telling the time, or to build on time-telling skills. The matching of the clock faces also encourages visual awareness and teaches the details of time.
Great for developing memor y and speed skills. Contains: • 8 Wooden Animal Cards • 3 Wooden Dice • 4 Wooden Scoring Boards • 16 Wooden Scoring Coins • Illustrated Rules • Cotton Pouch
Ages 4+ • 200 x 200 x 30mm • 24 press-out clock cards • 4 lotto boards #30922
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Quack Quack
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Ages 3+ • 175 x 175 x 55mm #64353
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Construction Set New Bingory Part Bingo, part Memory, Bingory is an entertaining and challenging memory game for kids and parents alike. Be the first to complete your bingo card by finding the matching pairs and you win! Great for developing association, memor y and observation skills.
Children can now build anything they dream up with this functional wooden construction set. Containing 90 pieces including a spanner and a screwdriver, this construction set can easily be assembled and reassembled time and time again and will help young children to develop their fine motor skills, problem solving abilities and scope for imaginative play. Ages 3+ • 90 wooden pieces • Tub with plastic handle #34180
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Contains: • 16 matching pairs • Bingo cards • Illustrated Rules • Cotton Pouch Ages 4+ • 175 x 175 x 55mm #64377
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Topsy and Tim Go Green
Feed Me!
Super Shiny Robots!
Topsy and Tim learn all about how the world is getting destroyed by fumes and rubbish. To cheer them up, Mummy shows them lots of ways they can help the environment, they even recycle their old sandpit to make a pond! A trusted and well-loved pair, Topsy and Tim demonstrate to young children learning to read, how they too can go green.
This hugely engaging, innovative book from Ladybird is perfect for encouraging imaginative play and developing hand-eye coordination in young children. There is a friendly animal character on every page, each with a working, chomping mouth that can be pushed open and shut to simulate eating. Match the correct food to the character or have fun making them all eat silly things!
Discover some amazing and funny robots in this engaging book. Each page features a robot with an interactive novelty such as a flap to lift or a wheel to turn. Simple, rhyming text describes robots with clocks for eyes and springs for hair, who can whizz around on wheels and even cook your meals!
Ages 3+ • 198 x 147mm • 32pp • PB
Ages 3+ • 234 x 200mm • 8pp • BB #32872 $16.95
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This Dinosaur is so BIG!
Time for Bed
This Dinosaur Is So Big! is a magnet book filled with brilliant and bright illustrations, engaging text and eight giant magnets. Small children will love using the huge magnets to create their own silly sentences such as “This dinosaur is so BIG… it can eat a boat, play football with a bus, or swallow a sea monster!”
Settle down to a treasury of traditional tales and nursery rhymes by award-winning author and illustrator Debi Gliori.
The colourful magnets encourage children to be creative whilst they read as well as providing a great bonding opportunity for parents and children. The book is packed in a beautiful padded case with a die-cut panel to reveal the magnets. Ages 3+ • 270 x 225mm • 12pp • HB
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Read along with your child and watch the stories and nursery rhymes come to life with colourful, bright and funny illustrations. Each book is accompanied by a CD that your child can listen to while you read. This is a delightful package, packed with charm, which you and your child will love reading together. Ages 4+ • 276 x 216mm • 144pp • HB #73463
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What better way to build reading and counting skills than with the award-winning Zingo! product line. With Zingo! 1-2-3 and Zingo!, your family will have hours of fun while learning at the same time!
Zingo! 1-2-3 What better way to build reading and counting skills than with Zingo! 1-2-3, the newest game in the award-winning Zingo! product line. With Zingo! 1-2-3, players match numbered tiles to images on their cards. The first player with a full card wins by yelling “Zingo!” Two levels of play focus on counting and addition. This fast-paced game will have the whole family yelling “1-2-3 PLAY!” Also great for developing learning skills such as counting, simple addition, number sense, and word recognition. Zingo! 1-2-3 contains: • 6 double-sided Zingo! cards • 72 double-sided tiles • Zingo! Zinger easy cleanup! Ages 4+ • 262 x 210 x 90mm #62564 $36.50
Zingo! Zingo! is a fast and fun matching game. It’s great for prereaders and early readers alike since it uses both pictures and words. Playing Zingo! will help build these learning and social skills: image and word recognition, matching ability, verbalisation, concentration and memory, fine motor skills, ability to follow instructions, and concepts of winning and losing. Zingo! contains: • 6 double-sided cards • Zingo! Zinger easy cleanup! • 72 picture tiles Ages 4+ • 262 x 210 x 90mm
The I-Spy Game
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Zingo Games
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‘I spy with my little eye, something beginning with…’ This fun game teaches awareness of letter sounds. Its highly detailed and imaginative scenes develop observation and vocabulary. Variations of the basic game can be played to suit different ages and abilities. Ages 4+ • 230 x 230 x 50mm • 4 game boards • 1 alphabet spinner #10082 $26.00
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Make a Word Make a Word is an exciting and original educational game designed by The Learning Ladder to develop children’s pre-reading skills. Playing with Make a Word, children from as young as three years will learn to: • Name and sound the letters of the alphabet; • Recognise vowels and consonants; • Spell simple words; • Make their own simple sentences; • Make and read their own more complex Best sentences Seller Make a Word contains: • 110 lower-case letters • 80 double-sided word cards selected from the Dolch 100 First Sight Words and Fry’s List of Instant Words • 6 plastic playing boards • A comprehensive Parent’s Guide Ages 3+ • 200 x 300 x 80mm #16622 $40.00
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Why is the Sky Blue?
What do birds say
This beautiful book is made from recycled paper, and is the perfect first book for young children interested in the world they see around them. Packed with real questions that children wonder about, such as ‘Why is the sky blue?’ and ‘What do birds say when they sing?’, it also contains exciting flaps to lift and tabs to pull that reveal the child-friendly answers, encouraging hours of fun and discussion.
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Green Book
Do sheep get cold without their wool? Why can’t penguins fly? Children have always been fascinated by animals, and with real children’s questions clearly and simply answered, this book is a great way to encourage them to learn more about the animals of the world. From the maker’s of Why Is The Sky Blue, this fantastic title has flaps to lift and tabs to pull, and is made from 100% recycled paper. Ages 3+ • 275 x 235mm • 22 pp • HB #31967 $24.95
Two games in one, Criss Cross is both exciting and educational. ‘Mathematics’ is a fast-moving, quick-thinking game which helps the players develop and practise their times tables and all the important number skills. ‘Word’ is a more challenging game and develops vital spelling and language skills. A fun, educational game for the whole family.
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Mousetrap Maths It’s a race to win the cheese but beware of the mousetraps! Mousetrap Maths contains two fun, educational games designed by The Learning Ladder that: • Provide practice in solving addition and subtraction problems • Teach number recognition and counting skills • Teach game-playing skills
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Ages 3+ • 250 x 210 x 45mm • Playing board • 2 packs of cards (32 cards per pack) • 12 playing markers • Instructions #16592
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Tinga Tinga is a land full of BIG stories and BIG surprises, all based on classic African folk tales and features the colourful cast of Tinga Tinga animals and glorious Tinga Tinga inspired artwork. Why Elephant has a Trunk #27815 Why Giraffe has a Long Neck #35056 Ages 3–5 Why Lion Roarrrs! #35216 • 250 x 250mm Why Monkeys Swing in Trees #27839 • 32pp • PB
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The bad-tempered ladybird picks fights with every animal he meets, but soon learns the importance of friends and turns into a far nicer, happier bug.
Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite. Its imaginative illustrations and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar.
The beautifully illustrated pages of this entertaining book demonstrate the sizes of the different animals and the sun’s path across the sky as time passes.
Ages 3–5 • 210 x 295mm • 28pp • PB #69322
Ages 3–5 • 260 x 260mm • 38pp • PB #32031
$16.95
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Tinga Tinga Tales
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird
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Pat the Cat and Friends Young children will enjoy learning to read as they follow these fun antics in the humorous illustrations. Each of the five books uses a flip-the-pages format to teach the five vowel sounds. Ages 3–5 • 173 x 173mm • 24pp • HB 5 book Set: Jen the Hen Tog the Dog #53566
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The Jewel Fish of Karnak
One Small Island
The Jewel Fish of Karnak is set in ancient Egypt and follows the story of two happy-go-lucky characters - an ibis and a jackal as they journey through the desert and along the Nile, trying to reclaim the magical fish of Karnak, which was stolen form the Cat Pharaoh by the Evil Crocodile Prince!
A beautifully designed and illustrated non-fiction picture book about the life and times of Macquarie Island – a sub-Antarctic Island and World Heritage Site – from the bestselling and award-winning picture book creator, Alison Lester, and Coral Tulloch.
Young readers will be delighted and intrigued by the intricate code, in the shape of a stunningly beautiful fish, which can be found in the end pages of this beautiful book.
Ages 4+ • 220 x 285mm • 32p • HB
Ages 4+ • 290 x 270mm • 32pp • HB #74679
This book traces the history of the island and the story of how its precious ecosystem has been damaged over the years, and how recently attempts have been made to regenerate and restore it to its former pristine state. It’s a story of hope and renewal, and Macquarie Island’s plight is a microcosm of the environmental issues facing us today. It’s the story of paradise lost and found, and the life and times of one small island in relation to the whole planet.
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Uno’s Garden This award-winning book by Graeme Base is an illuminating blend of storybook, puzzle book and numbers book – a moving and timely tale about how we all unknowingly affect the environment around us, and how we can always learn from our mistakes and find better ways of doing things. Ages 4+ • 292 x 272mm • 46pp • HB #41916
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A Giraffe in the Bath A giraffe in the bath - does that make you laugh? Or a frog in the flour? Or a sheep in the shower? An owl with the flu? Or a roo on the loo? A crocodile with style - does that make you smile? What makes you laugh? Ages 3+ • 289 x 217mm • 36pp • HB #72132
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Hullabazoo!
The boat that this little boy has so carefully crafted from bits and bobs gives him much delight as he sails it safely attached to string. Then one day the boat is swept away by the elements. A lovely story about friendship, determination and facing your fears.
It’s a perfect day for a trip to the zoo. But Lochlan and his dad haven’t counted on a cage of clever crocs and their cunning escape plan! Impressive illustrations with a very funny, surreal story in rhyme, this is a fantastic book to read out loud and will have the whole family in stitches. Ages 3+ • 294 x 278mm • 32pp • HB
Ages 3+ • 241 x 241mm • 32pp • PB #02531
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Toy Boat
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Big Red Hen and the Little Lost Egg Big Red Hen looks after everyone else’s babies, but what she wants most of all is someone special of her own to love . . . Ages 3+ • 244 x 193mm • 32pp • PB #04740
Captain Buckleboots on the Naughty Step The naughty step is the place where Sam has to sit when he has done something he knows he REALLY shouldn’t have.
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New Felix Grandma was VERY CROSS. ‘Someone’s been nibbling the bread,’ she shouted, ‘and someone’s been eating the jam!’ ‘It wasn’t me,’ said Grandpa. ‘It wasn’t me,’ said Molly. Could it be Felix?
One day, he’s surprised to find he’s not alone . . .
Mine! Meet Funny Bunny, the absolute MOST favourite toy of Frankie and Fifi, the twins. Wherever they go, Funny Bunny goes too. But, when it comes to sharing...Uh-oh DOUBLE TROUBLE!
And he’s not the only one who needs some help to work out how to say sorry!
Ages 3+ • 89 x 248mm • 32pp • PB
Ages 3+ • 270 x 250mm • 32pp • PB
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Poor Felix! He knows he’s not to blame, so he sets out to find the thief... Ages 3+ • 228 x 228mm • 32pp • PB #04801
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Each Peach Pear Plum A poem on each page gives the clue as to what is hiding in the picture opposite, so young children can follow the rhymes. Ages 3+ • 190 x 246mm • 32pp • PB #09199
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All Through the Year
Isabella’s Secret
From this beloved author/illustrator comes a personal almanac of a little girl and her family that opens a window onto a magical journey through an Australian year.
Isabella trembled with excitement. She had always looked for fairies in the garden, and here they were! In her delightful picture book, Jane Tanner celebrates every child’s need for time alone, time to enjoy nature and time to dream.
Superb, wistful illustrations and beautiful rhyming text that will take us all back to our childhoods.
Ages 3–5 • 250 x 250mm • 32pp • PB #55676
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Ages 4+ • 268 x 264mm • 36pp • HB
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Sophie’s Big Bed Sophie has always slept in her nice, cosy cot with a blue, starshaped pillow. But now she has a new big bed. When she tries to sleep in it with her toys Bunny, Bear and Scarlett, they object. It is too big and they fear they will get lost under all the sheets. Will Sophie and her toys learn to sleep in the new big bed? A sweet and adorable tale that perfectly captures childhood imagination, the illustrations are clear and bright making this appropriate for even the youngest child. Ages 2–5 • 230 x 230mm • 24pp • PB #53125 $14.95
Lifetimes It’s Lovely When You Smile When Little Roo wakes up, he just feels grumpy. He doesn’t want to play and he doesn’t know why. His mother tries hard to cheer him up, but can she make Roo smile? An endearing and heart-warming tale guaranteed to make everyone smile! Ages 3+ • 270 x 214mm • 32pp • PB #69919
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With its sensitive discussion about death and the beautiful celebration of living, Lifetimes is a wonderful source of comfort for both children and adults. Ages 3+ • 211 x 208mm • 40pp • PB #01445
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With over 250 nursery rhymes, including both well-known favourites and hidden gems, this collection has something for every child. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Raymond Briggs, the much-loved creator of the Snowman, this revised edition of a famous classic first won the Kate Greenaway medal in 1966 and is now available again for a whole new generation. Ages 3–5 • 290 x 222mm • 160pp • HB #29666
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Sing a Song of Bottoms!
Bottoms Up!
Sing a song of bottoms cos everybody’s got ‘em They come in every shape and every size. Everyone’s behind is perfectly designed But which behind deserves to win the prize? Laugh-out-loud funny and bursting with bottoms - it’s terrific fun and will have children squealing with delight!
Terrific fun and laugh-out-loud funny, this is a book bursting with bottoms, the perennial favourite that will have children squealing with delight! With a fabulous cast of humorously illustrated animal characters, the story is so funny it will have children wetting their pants – IF they’re wearing any! Bottoms Up! is a book guaranteed to cause giggles.
Ages 3–5 • 275 x 250mm • 32pp • PB #28805 $14.95
Ages 3–5 • 275 x 250mm • 32pp • PB #52137 $14.95
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The Puffin Mother Goose Treasury
The Puffin Book of Five Minute Stories This lively collection of 19 five-minute stories, perfect for reading aloud to young children, can be enjoyed again and again. There’s always time for a five-minute story! The stories included in the collection combine the old with the new, such as Dick King-Smith’s “Norty Boy” and the traditional tale of “The Three Little Pigs”. Ages 3+ • 263 x 193mm • 128pp • PB #08791
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Tiddalick The Frog Who Caused a Flood
Funnybones
Tiddalick was so thirsty that he drank up all the rivers and billabongs in the land. Now all the other animals have to find a way to get the water back! An adaptation of an aboriginal dreamtime legend, this classic story is sure to engage and delight.
In this big, big book with its bright, bright colours there is a dark, dark house and in that dark, dark house in a dark, dark cellar live some . . . skeletons!
Ages 3–5 • 195 x 195mm • 32pp • PB
Ages 4+ • 264 x214mm • 78pp • PB
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Look After Your Planet
My New Extremely Busy Activity Pack
Charlie persuades Lola that instead of throwing her things away, she should recycle them. ‘Recycle it? What is that?’ asks Lola. A great book that teaches children all about recycling!
Lola loves drawing and scribbling and cutting and sticking and painting and colouring. You can be just like Lola with this new completely brilliant activity pack, containing My Picnic Sticker Book, the drawing, colouring and sticking book I Completely Must Do Drawing Now, pencils for colouring and collage paper, all packed in a handy carry bag.
Ages 3–5 • 235 x 214mm • 32pp • PB #33731 $14.95
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Green Book
Contains • 1 colouring book (24pp) • 1 sticker book with over 100 stickers (12pp) • 30 sheets of collage paper • Pack of 10 colour pencils Ages 3–5 • 280 x 275mm #51284 $19.95
Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs
Out of the gate and off for a walk went Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy . . .
In this rollicking adventure series, fearless Flinn must face up to the dreaded Pirate Dinosaurs. But seeing as you can never, EVER trust a Pirate Dinosaur, will our hero be able to sail out of trouble?
Hairy Maclary’s friends join him for a walk until, with a sudden yowl, a wail and a howl, they all run off. What could have caused such a scatter of paws? Ages 3+ • 252 x189mm • 32pp • PB #05313 $14.95
Ages 3–5 • 297 x 252mm • 32pp • PB Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs #69216 Magic Cutlass #51314 Missing Treasure! #50492 Smugglers Bay #01321
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This award-winning series by Paul Jennings about a boy named Ben and his loveable dragon named Rascal now comes in a great giant paperback format. This endearing and funny series has already amused and delighted over half a million readers, and the trademark Paul Jennings’ twist makes it perfect for instilling the reading bug in beginner readers. These books are just right for children with emerging reading skills, from preparatory school to the lower grades, and the 3-D artwork can really be appreciated in this larger size. Read a Rascal story to your children and before long they’ll read it to you! Ages 3–5 • 295 x 220mm • 32pp • PB
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Rascal Series
Little Rascal to the Rescue #03972 Rascal and Little Flora #52395 Rascal and the Cheese #52418 Rascal and the Dragon Droppings #03965 Rascal and the Hot Air Balloon #52425 Rascal and the Monster #03941 Rascal at the Show #52401 Rascal Goes Fishing #03958 Rascal in Trouble #51749 Rascal Takes Off #52067 Rascal the Dragon #51732 Rascal’s Trick #52050
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Rascal Pack 1 (6 titles): (Little Rascal to the Rescue, Dragon Droppings, Goes Fishing, the Monster, the Hot Air Balloon, Little Flora)
Rascal Pack 2 (6 titles): (Rascal at the Show, The Cheese, Takes Off, Rascal’s Trick, In Trouble, Rascal the Dragon)
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Starter Stiles
Starter Stile Numeracy Series
The Starter Stiles Tiles were once only available to teachers. Our Starter Stiles programs are highly motivating, self-checking teaching aids written by Australian educators exclusively for The Learning Ladder. The books in each set increase in difficulty and children should start with Book 1 and work their way up. The colourful tiles of the Stile tray, along with the attractive, imaginative books, introduce essential concepts in maths and literacy in a way that is fun and will ensure children don’t become bored or discouraged. The unique self-checking mechanism allows children to work at their own pace and to check their own work without help from parents.
The twelve books in this series provide essential practice and reinforcement activities in numbers, calculations and measurement, and introduces children to the concepts they will need for the first two years of primary school.
Starter Stile Pre-Number
Starter Stile Early Number
Introduces preschoolers to the essential early maths concepts of classification and matching colours, shapes and numbers.
Builds on the concepts introduced in PreNumber and provides activities on number and shape identification, early addition, classification and time.
Numeracy Calculations Books 1 & 2 #12961 Numeracy Numbers Books 1 & 2 #13003 Numeracy Shape Books 1 & 2 #12988
Ages 3–4 • 148 x 209mm • 26pp • PB
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Numeracy Calculations Books 3 & 4 #12970 Numeracy Numbers Books 3 & 4 #13011 Numeracy Shape Books 3 & 4 #12996
Pre-Number Books 1 & 2 #1817X
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Starter Stile Pre-Reading Fun and colourful pre-reading exercises include matching, opposites, things that go together, rhyming words, patterns and letter recognition.
Starter Stiles Spelling and Phonics The twelve books in this series provide essential practise and reinforcement activities in spelling and phonics for reading, and introduce children to the words they will need for the first two years of primary school. Ages 6–9 • 148 x 209mm • 26pp • PB
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Starter Stile Early Reading The Early Reading Set includes work on the alphabet, upper and lower-case letters, first words, rhyming words and simple sentences.
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Early Reading Books 1 & 2 #59944
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Young Reading Pack (4 Books) #56723
Spelling & Phonics Pack 1 (Books 1–6) #53968 Spelling & Phonics Pack 2 (Books 7–12) #54088
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Starter Stiles
Starter Stile Reading Program
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Starter Stile Tiles Ages 3–10 Starter Stile Tiles #59952
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DK Made Easy
English Made Easy Supports curriculum English for all Australian students. This is a complete, graded homestudy scheme that reinforces the essential English skills children learn at school.
Early Reading Helps children to develop visual recognition skills.
Writing Develops eye-and-hand coordination necessary for writing letters.
Year 1
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This book focuses on letter groupings in words to help with reading, writing and spelling. It will also improve children’s everyday vocabulary.
This book provides practice in reading and understanding different types of text. It shows how to write descriptively and for specific audiences.
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Year 5
This book shows how to use punctuation, and how to play with language using tongue twisters, riddles and poems.
This book helps children understand clauses in sentences and how to use apostrophes. It also looks at persuasive writing, poetry, and classic novels.
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Year 6
This book helps your child to plan and write stories and use a dictionary. It looks closely at the words that make up sentences, including compound words and pronouns.
This book has practice on paragraphs and punctuation, similes and metaphors, and looks at different types of writing such as instructional and information text.
Encourages recognition of the sounds, names and shapes of each letter.
Ages 4–12 • 297 x 210mm • 32pp • PB
Ages 4–12 • 297 x 210mm • 32pp • PB
Ages 4–12 • 297 x 210mm • 32pp • PB
Year 1 #35089 Year 2 #35096 Year 3 #35133
Rhyming Works on listening skills, sounds and simple spelling while broadening the child’s vocabulary.
The Alphabet
Rhyming: Beginners #35072 Early Writing: Beginners #35027 The Alphabet: Beginners #35034
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Spelling Made Easy Kit Learn to spell - it’s as easy as ABC! See how fun games and special rewards can help your child with their spelling. Perfect for practising at home and at school, this kit contains: • Workbook • 90 spelling cards • Wipe clean ‘word calendar’ • ‘Spelling well’ game • Poster with reward stickers Ages 5–8 • 200 x 245 x 50mm • Box #36413 $29.95
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Learn Your Fractions and Decimals Kit
Supports curriculum maths for all Australian students. This is a complete, graded home-study scheme that reinforces the essential maths skills children learn at school. Ages 4–12 • 297 x 210mm • 32pp • PB Adding & Taking Away: Beginners #34679 Numbers: Beginners #34617 Shapes, Pattern, Measurement & Location #34662 Year 1 #34716
DK Made Easy
Maths Made Easy
Year 2 #34723 Year 3 #34730 Times Tables: Years 3 & 4 #34785 Year 4 #34778 Year 5 #34792 Times Tables: Years 5 & 6 #34846 Year 6 #34839 Decimals Extension: Year 6 #34853
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Enjoy learning maths in a fraction of the time, with games, repetition, writing and rewards. Perfect for practising at home to stay one step ahead of the class. Contains: • Workbook • 180 quiz cards • Snap card game • Test-your-knowledge board game • Fridge magnets
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Times Tables Made Easy Kit Times Tables Made Easy makes learning and practising times tables easy and fun. The box contains a say-along CD, times tables fridge magnets, a hidden answer tables game, quick-wit workbook and a star reward chart. 5 ways to learn = 5 x the fun! Ages 5–8 • 265 x 215 x 65mm • Box #35546
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Times Tables Book This book is filled with fun illustrations, shortcuts, clever ways to make some of the harder times tables simpler to learn (and even some harmless cheats that their teacher will approve of!). They can also download a fantastic FREE podcast from the DK website so they can join in with other children saying their tables AND play the fill-in-the-answer game. Ages 7–10 • 260 x 200mm • 64pp • HB #37687 $14.95
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A fun and informative journey into the wonderful world of LEGO ® for young readers! Designed to engage even the most reluctant reader, this actionpacked LEGO ® Pirates themed Reader will leave kids wanting to learn more about the LEGO ® Pirate world.
Brand new and exciting adventure stories with fabulous illustrations, designed to motivate children to read! Superhero Phonic Readers are exciting stories for children to read at home, after learning phonics at school. The simple phonic language, progressing in difficulty from book to book, allows children to enjoy the thrill of reading for themselves.
Level 1 LEGO ® Pirates: Brickbeard’s Treasure: Join Captain Brickbeard and his pirate crew as they hunt for treasure on the high seas!
Superhero Phonic Readers feature: • Simple phonic language to boost reading confidence • A funny, gripping story to get children excited about reading • Puzzle pages to build comprehension skills • 30 cool Superhero stickers to swap and share • A reward chart to give added encouragement
Level 2 LEGO ® Kingdoms: Defend the Castle: Visit the Lion King’s castle and find out who wants to attack the kingdom! Level 1 (Ages 5–6): LEGO ® Pirates Brickbeard’s Treasure #77060 Level 2 (Ages 6–7): LEGO ® Kingdom Defend the Castle #77046
Become a reading hero with Superhero Phonic Readers!
Ages 5–7 • 228 x 150mm • PB
Superhero Phonics Flashcards
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Help your child learn to read without conflicting with their schoolwork. If your child is learning phonics these flashcards are the perfect tool for additional home learning. Approved by phonics expert Marj Newbury, these phonics flashcards will complement their schoolwork and help build a confident reader. With a picture on the reverse of the card extra reading practice will become fun. Ages 5-7 • 155 x 100mm • 52 Cards #05637
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Top Dog (Level 1) #04678 Zain Zoom (Level 2) #02537 Jumping Jade (Level 3) #02605 Cow Boy (Level 4) #02612 X-Ray Rex (Level 5) #02629 Invisible Liz (Level 6) #02636 The Super Twins (Level 7) #02643 Ages 5–7 • 210 x 210mm • 32pp • PB
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Readers Designed to engage even the most reluctant reader, the actionpacked Star Wars Reader Series is all about your child’s favourite galaxy!
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Easy to read stories with word repetition, pictures and illustrated text boxes to build literacy skills.
Longer sentences, increased vocabulary, information boxes and a simple index.
Great for children beginning to read alone – exciting stories with rich vocabulary, challenging sentence structures, additional information, alphabetical glossary and index.
For children who are proficient readers – rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure, additional information, alphabetical glossary and index challenge growing readers.
LEVEL 1 (Ages 5–6): Luke Skywalker’s Amazing Story #38608 Tatooine Adventures #51027 The Clone Wars - Don’t Wake the Zillo Beast! #54110 LEVEL 2 (Ages 6–7): Clone Troopers in Action #51003 The Adventures of Han Solo #41486 The Clone Wars - Boba Fett: Jedi Hunter #54127
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LEVEL 3 (Ages 7–8): The Clone Wars - Jedi Heroes #54097 Death Star Battles #50952 Feel the Force! #51010 LEVEL 4 (Ages 8–10): The Clone Wars - Planets in Peril #54103 Ultimate Duels #51041
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Homework Helpers Ladybird Homework Helpers are fun, bright activity books with content that supports the work taught in schools. Each page contains quick, snappy activities that can be done in short bursts, and there are also over 60 colourful stickers to interactively reinforce the concepts learnt. There’s also a thorough parent note to help both you and your child get the most out of the book. Ages 5–7 • 297 x 210mm • 32pp • PB Taking Away Sticker Book #05682 Spelling Sticker Book #05705 Adding Up Sticker Book #05675
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Twist & Check Times Table Card Games The Twist & Check card games are self-checking activities that reinforce and develop your child’s multiplication skills in a fun way. There are two packs of times tables cards. Times Tables covers tables 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10. Times Tables Advanced covers tables 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12. Ages 5+ • 126 x 82 x 30mm • 5 games • 55 cards • Parent’s Guide card Times Tables #14069
• 6 games • 79 cards • Parent’s Guide card Times Tables Advanced #5350
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Times Tables & Times Tables Advanced Set #5351
Times Tables Sticker Book and CD #05699
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My First Ladybird Dictionary #08751 My First Ladybird Thesaurus #08744
The acting, singing, laughing, hopping, crawling, jumping game that kids will love. Wrestle with a crocodile, walk on the moon, pretend to be a penguin and crawl through the legs of everyone in the room. With over 200 rib-tickling activities, Whatever Next! is simply fantastic fun for family and friends of all ages. As well as being great for giggles, Whatever Next! gets children to use their imagination, builds self-confidence and encourages happy, cooperative play. Ages 5+ • Box 250 x 360 x 50mm • Game board • 118 cards • 6 playing pieces & 1 dice #10093
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My First Ladybird Dictionary &
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Learning Ladder Years 1 & 2 CD-ROM Woody the pencil takes you on an incredible learning adventure involving: • Stimulating activities • A huge variety of fun exercises • Screens that monitor progress Developed with experienced teachers, this disc provides the essential literacy and numeracy skills to give your child a head start at school. Ages 5–7 •190 x 133mm •CD-ROM GAME #62694 $19.95 • Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP, 486DX2/66MHz CPU, 16MB RAM, Double Speed CD-ROM
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Grow It, Eat It
Cooking
Mummy and Me Cookbook
A beautifully illustrated book for kids that shows them how to grow their own produce and then turn it into simple, delicious meals and snacks.
From cool fruit lollies to tasty cheese tarts, kids will learn how to create 50 mouth-watering recipes. With a tactile padded cover and free cooking stencils.
Ages 5–7 • 276 x 216mm • 80pp • HB #28104 $24.95
Ages 5–7 • 217 x 170mm • 48pp • HB #31876 $16.95
All kinds of delicious food that’s good for you too! There are lots of step-by-step photos to show exactly what to do, and you’ll find out how to weigh, sieve, mix and much more.
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Children’s Cookery Cards From vegetable tart to chocolate brownies, each wipe-clean card includes mouth-watering photography of the dish and easy-to-follow instructions to guarantee great results and lots of fun. Truly scrumptious! Ages 5–7 • 217 x 163 x 24mm • 50 cards • Box #20023 $29.95
How Does My Garden Grow?
My Favourite Recipes
Help your child discover the wonderful world of plants! They’ll learn all about plants, how they live and why they are so important to people. From keeping our air breathable to the food, clothes, medicine, and paper we use every day.
Get mixing and have fun cooking with these new flip-over cooking cards. Features over 50 carefully selected recipes from Annabel Karmel that will feed the whole family.
There are lots of inspirational ideas for fun activities to do at home like turning tomatoes into pizza toppings. All plants can be grown in containers, all recipes have easy-to-follow instructions and there are over 30 practical projects with simple step-by-steps. Ages 5–7 • 276 x 216mm • 80pp • HB #38035 $24.95
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Each recipe card comes with clear step-by-step photos and instructions that will teach your child basic and essential cooking skills. Once they’ve made a dish, they’ll love eating it too! Ages 5–7 • 224 x 175mm • 96pp • HB #62634 $16.95
Mister Maker
Sewing School I MADE IT MYSELF!
How To...Ballet Shows you ‘how to’ with simple step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. From basic exercises to more advanced arabesques, pirouettes, leaps, and jumps. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into producing a ballet spectacle. Ages 5–7 • 276 x 216mm • 64pp • HB #62108 $16.95
Kids everywhere are showing off their stitching skills as they learn to sew their very own fun things with needle and thread. Sewing nurtures creativity, develops coordination, and boosts confidence, but kids know that it’s just plain fun. Ages 5–7 • 244 x 244mm • 144pp • Wiro #06354 $29.95
If your child loves Mister Maker and can’t wait to get out the glue, scissors or paint, then here are some fantastic things for them to make and do at home. Both of these great books feature over 50 fantastic makes from the series and some brand new ideas. Your child can have fun creating ‘Minute Makes’, ‘Medium Makes’ and even ‘Massive Makes’ depending on how much time you have! Featuring all the best ‘Minute Makes’, ‘Frame Its’ and ‘Main Makes’ from the show, it is guaranteed to keep Mister Maker fans busy for hours. Let’s Make It: Mister Maker #39056 Let’s Make More! Mister Maker #41516
Ages 4+ • 279 x 223mm • 48pp • HB
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Lower Primary
How To...
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How To...Football With easy-to-follow instructions from coaching tips and practice drills devised by professional coaches, to key match day tactics, including attacking, defending and movement without the ball. You’ll also discover all about your favourite star players and football’s greatest moments. Ages 5–7 • 276 x 216mm • 64pp • HB #63389 $16.95
My Art Book Fun, educational and bubbling over with creativity, My Art Book is a beautiful introduction for young children to the history and techniques of art. With over 50 project ideas to fire the imagination, including mosaics inspired by Diego Rivera, figure sculptures inspired by Henry Moore and aboriginal dreamtime art.
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Mini Scientist Big stuff about science in bite-sized guides perfect for mini scientists. Why is the sky blue? How do plants grow? What makes the wind blow? Children never stop asking questions about the world, and that makes them all Mini Scientist. Each spread has two hands-on activities that help children absorb science stuff effortlessly, as well as a lift-the-flap surprise explaining the theory behind what they’ve just done, and ideas for fun follow-ups Ages 5–7 • 240x 240mm • 22-24pp • HB Mini Scientist in the Garden #56190 Mini Scientist in the Kitchen #56183 Mini Scientist My Body #65185 Mini Scientist Water Fun #67936
$14.95 each
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Animal Playtime
First Facts Books Start a lifetime of learning with the First Facts series. First Facts introduces children to the world of reading, with lively illustrations and simple text to help build confidence and development. Bursting with fun bug facts and figures, children will love flicking through and learning as they go. Questions such as ‘How many legs does a millipede have?’ and ‘How do tractors work?’ are answered. Ages 5–7 • 210 x 210mm •32pp • HB
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Children learn about life by playing, and so do lots of adorable animals. Animal Playtime takes a playful peek at baby lions chewing on daddy’s tail, polar-bear cubs using their mom’s furry body as a climbing frame, and a young monkey trying to escape a parent’s clutches to go off with his friends. For each appealing image, the text points out what’s going on, why the play takes the form it does, or what the animal baby is learning from it. Ages 5–8 • 235 x 195mm • 64pp • HB #75177 $16.95
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Bugs: First Facts #68131 Farm: First Facts #68148
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New and exciting reference series for children, using the questionand-answer format that engages their interest and helps them learn. It encourages children to seek answers and continue developing the life-skill of asking questions. Appealing illustrations, soft photographic backgrounds, and clear photography make these books a delight to look at as well as being informative. Ages 5+ • 240 x 195mm • 32pp • HB Ask a Bug #64331 Ask a Dinosaur #65857
$12.95 each
Eye Know The books in the Eye Know series provide a fun way for children to make sense of the natural world. Each page has either a fold-out flap or cut-through hole to illustrate the subject matter. With so many fun and exciting things to find, see, and do, your child will love to discover and learn about the world around them. Ages 5–7 • 200 x 200mm • 24pp • HB Insect #16198 Mammal #31951 Reptile #32118 Time #18327 Water #13129 Weather #18334
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Ask a...
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First Reference Series This well-researched reference series is packed with beautiful, fullcolour images, curious quizzes, bite-sized facts, information boxes and activities.
Dictionary Bring the world of words to life with this exciting and easy-touse wordfinder. Eye-catching photography encourages children to enjoy and explore words. Contains 3000+ entries. Ages 5+ • 276 x 216mm • 256pp • PB #37668
$19.95
This exciting photographic encyclopedia is especially appealing for children and is designed to make learning fun. Ages 5+ • 276 x 216mm • 160pp • PB
$19.95
Science Encyclopedia From outer space to the inside of bodies, explore the incredible world of science with this first reference for young scientists – now in paperback! Ages 5+ • 276 x 216mm • 128pp • PB #59894
$19.95
Dinosaur Encyclopedia Dinosaurs ruled the planet for 160 million years. Discover where dinosaurs came from, how they lived, and what happened to them.
Ages 5+ • 276 x 216mm • 128pp • PB
Ages 5+ • 282 x 244mm • 128pp • HB
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#18280
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Human Body Encyclopedia
How Things Work Encyclopedia
Find out all about the body, how it works, and what it looks like. Fantastic photographs reveal what is going on inside and outside of you.
Discover how the human body stays alive, what keeps a plane in the sky, the amazing process that makes a plant grow, and much, much more.
Ages 5+ • 276 x 216mm • 128pp • PB
Ages 5+ • 282 x 244mm • 128pp • HB
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Animal Encyclopedia Take a giant leap into the animal kingdom! Five sections cover each of the main animal groups, and spectacular photographs show animals in action. Ages 5+ • 276 x 216mm • 160pp • PB #16057
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First Geography Encyclopedia Unearth the fascinating processes that have shaped our planet. An engaging and accessible look at geography and geology. Ages 5+ • 282 x 244mm • 128pp • HB #62078
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Space Encyclopedia Zoom into the cosmos with this out-of-this-world look at space, packed with the latest information on space travel and the mindboggling new discoveries astronomers are making
$29.95
Young Fiction
Puddle the Naughtiest Puppy When Puddle the Puppy comes to play, magic is never far away! Puddle is a naughty puppy who loves to go on magical adventures with his friends Ruby and Harry. He only has to jump into a puddle for the magic to begin. Ages 5–7 • 198 x 129mm • 128pp • PB Book 1: Magic Carpet Ride #03268 Book 2: Toyshop Trouble #03282 Book 3: Ballet Show Mischief #03299 Book 4: Rainforest Hide and Seek #03305 Book 5: Dragon Dance #03312 Book 6: Magic Mayhem #03329
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Ted Goes Wild TED: Normally the cuddly toy of his owner, Oliver, but when a crisis arises, Oliver helps Ted into his Adventure Suit and sends him off into the wilds. OLIVER: Ted’s owner who hides the fact that Ted is really an amazing adventurer and hero from his family, and worries about his furry friend whenever he’s away. TALIA: a resourceful rag doll trapped by a bear in a cave. Talia is destined to become the new best friend of Oliver’s pesky sister, Kylie. But only if Ted can save her. Ages 6+ • 198 x 129mm • 132pp • PB #04227 $12.95
Bad Kitty Books Bad Kitty doesn’t mean to be bad ... she just always seems to get herself into trouble. This loveable, relatable character is a perfect introduction to chapter books for young readers. Children will fall in love with Bad Kitty and be roaring with laughter at all of her antics. Ages 5+ • 198 x 129mm • PB
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Bad Kitty Gets a Bath #35933 (144pp) Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty #35940 (176pp)
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Harriet Bright: Holiday Hullabaloo
Cathy Cassidy Cathy Cassidy wrote and illustrated her first book aged eight years old. Today, she is a best-selling author for young girls all over the world.
Shine On Daizy Star Meet the one and only Daizy Star! She’s quirky and cool and loving life in Year Six with her best friends Willow and Beth. But when Dad hatches a mad plan that will turn life upsidedown, Daizy is too horrified to tell anyone at all.
Daizy Star and the Pink Guitar Daizy is ready to dazzle everyone with her brand-new pink guitar – maybe she’ll even find her star quality! But then Dad comes up with another crazy idea, which means swapping happy family life for milking African goats. Eeeek! Daizy needs a clever plan . . . Ages 7–9 • 198 x 129mm • 192pp • PB #25200 $14.95
Ages 7–9 • 198 x 129mm • 192pp • PB #25194 $14.95
Harriet Bright is going to have the best holiday ever. As soon as: One: She gets rid of the 6840 seconds that stand between her and Christmas Two: Her summer holiday friend Gracie Marshall is out of her life. Three: She saves Pluto from being dwarfed. Until then, she’s in a real hullabaloo. Meet the clever and zany Harriet Bright – a poet (don’t you know it) who will get into your head and whisk you away on adventures. Ages 6+ • 198 x 129mm • 132pp • PB #05071
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Ballet Shoes: 75th Anniversary Edition ‘I wonder . . . if other girls had to be one of us, which of us they’d choose to be?’ Pauline longs to be an actress.
The Accidental Princess Matilda and Iris Valentine don’t get along – they’re as different as sisters can be. When Matilda steals Iris’s lucky penny and hides it in the lilac hedge, she receives a strange pinch mark on her hand. Little does she know she has been claimed by the hedge folk as their princess… Join Matilda and the lilachedge folk as they battle to save their world from wicked imps, giant toads and so much worse.
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Petrova is happiest playing with cars and engines.
A wonderful gothic adventure story about a horrid orphanage, fallen angels, wicked water spirits, and a gutsy little orphan called Tensy Farlow, who has something that everyone wants... and are willing to get at all costs.
And if she could . . . Posy would dance all day!
Ages 10–12 • 206 x 133mm • 348pp • HB #73399
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But when their benefactor Great-Uncle Matthew disappears, the Fossil girls share a future of a dazzling life on stage, where their dreams and fears will soon come true Ages 7+ • 198 x 129mm • 238pp • PB #34424
Ages 7+ • 206 x 133mm • 264pp • HB #74969
Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children
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Boris
Justin D’Ath’s new series for younger readers is sure to engage even the most reluctant reader! Follow twin brothers, Harry and Jordan Fox as they continue the family tradition with their own version of extreme adventures.
Boris is an enthusiastic and mischievous seven-year-old warthog with an adventurous streak. He lives in a converted old bus with his parents and wants to be a world explorer, own a pet Komodo Dragon and win the Science Week prize. Boris and his friends feature in two hilarious full-colour short chapter books by internationally acclaimed illustrator Andrew Joyner.
Ages 6–9 • 198 x 129mm • 96pp• PB Dolphin Rescue #55835 Panda Chase #05888 Snake Escape #05811
Ages 5–7 • 198 x 129mm • 68pp • PB
Bugalugs Bum Thief: Aussie Bites
Boris (Book 1) #05026 Boris Gets a Lizard (Book 2) #05033 Ready, Set, Boris (Book 3) #05040 Boris Sees the Light (Book 4) #05057
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Skeeta Anderson woke up one morning to find that his bum was gone. And not only his bum, but the bum of every single person in the town of Bugalugs. Now it’s up to Skeeta to catch the thief! Ages 6–8 • 198 x 129mm • 72pp • PB #00849 $12.95
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Mission Fox
Revolting Rhymes Think again if you thought you knew the popular fairy tales. Here are six of the bestknown tales retold with more than a twist or two, by the master of the comic and the blood-curdling. Ages 5–7 • 264 x 203mm • 48pp • PB #51758 $16.95
Funniest Stories This special anthology boasts approximately 20 of Jennings’ most fun-filled yarns that were hand picked by the author for a spine-tingling, bizarre and laugh-out-loud reading experience.
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Our Australian Girl A new series of historical novels. Set in different eras in Australian history, the plucky girl protagonists will provide readers with a sense of life in another time as well as developing an understanding of our country’s past. Ages 7–12 • 198 x 129mm • 132pp • PB
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Meet Letty (Book 1)
Meet Poppy (Book 1)
Meet Rose (Book 1)
It’s 1841 . . . and Letty is on the docks in England, farewelling her bossy older sister who is about to take a long sea voyage to Australia. But then there is a mix-up, and before she knows it Letty finds herself on the ship too, travelling to New South Wales! How will Letty manage when her sister doesn’t even want her on the ship? And what will it be like on the other side of the world?
It’s 1864 . . . and Poppy lives at Bird Creek Mission near Echuca. Poppy hates the Mission, especially now that her brother, Gus, has run away to pan for gold. What if Poppy escaped, too? Would she survive alone in the bush? And would she ever find Gus, whom she loves more than anything in the world?
It’s 1900 . . . and Rose lives with her family in a big house in Melbourne. She wants to play cricket, climb trees and be an adventurer! But Rose’s mother has other ideas. Then Rose’s favourite young aunt comes to town and everything changes. Will Rose’s mother let Aunt Alice stay? And will Rose ever get to do the things she loves?
Meet Poppy (Book 1) #05323 Meet Rose (Book 1) #05361
Meet Letty (Book 1) #05408
Meet Grace (Book 1) It’s 1808 . . . and Grace is living with her uncle in London. They have no money, and Grace is always lonely and often hungry. One afternoon Grace can’t resist taking a shiny red apple from a grocer’s cart. Before she knows it, Grace is being chased through the streets! Will she be caught and sent to prison - or worse? Meet Grace (Book 1) #05286
A Friend for Grace (Book 2) Its 1808 . . . and Grace is on board the ship Indispensable with her friend Hannah. The girls wonder what the new land will be like – the convict women say there are giant rats and other strange animals! Then sickness strikes the ship . . . Will they survive to reach the shores of New South Wales? A Friend for Grace (Book 2) #05293
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Letty and the Stranger’s Lace (Book 2) It’s 1841 . . . and Letty and her sister Lavinia have arrived in Sydney town. It’s a dangerous place for two girls on their own. When Lavinia gets a job, poor Letty is left feeling useless and alone. Then she meets Mary, a strange woman with a secret . . . . Letty and the Stranger’s Lace (Book 2) #05415
Poppy at Summerhill (Book 2)
Rose on Wheels (Book 2)
It’s 1864 . . . and Poppy, disguised as a boy, has escaped from Bird Creek Mission to find her brother, Gus. Life on the road is hard, but Poppy is given shelter at the Summerhill Homestead. There she meets a new friend, Noni – but will Noni discover that Poppy is not who she says she is? And will Poppy find Gus before they lose each other forever?
It’s 1900 . . .and Rose feels that Aunt Alice is the only one who understands her. But now it looks as if Aunt Alice is going to live in Adelaide, leaving Rose with a dreadful new governess, Miss Higginbottom!
Poppy at Summerhill (Book 2) #05330
Rose on Wheels (Book 2) #05378
One legend. A thousand shivers. Only one shark will rule the ocean. Since the dawn of time, shark clans called Shivers have ruled over the earth’s oceans, protectors of all who swim. For eons, the Big Blue has prospered under Shiver Law, and the delicate balance of sea life kept sacred. Until now. With the ocean on the brink of chaos, a young reef shark named Gray - exiled from the safety of his peaceful reef home - must venture deep into Open Water to unlock the secrets of his destiny...
Monsterbook: Rumblefart and the Beastly Bottom Will’s school play is Beauty and the Beast, but Urk has discovered there’ll be more than one monster on opening night! The show must go on, but can they stop Rumblefart and his mad monster mob? Ages 7–9 • 198 x 129mm • 160pp • PB #26535 $12.95
Ages 8+ • 198 x 129mm • 192pp • PB #39559 $12.95
Wicked Warriors and Evil Emperors Imagine you’re made king at the age of twelve. You have plenty of enemies. You have a million soldiers armed with all kinds of awesome weapons, you have tons of gold and a network of spies. What would you do with all that power? Ages 10–12 • 198 x 129mm • 216pp • PB #04340 $16.95
Young Fiction
Shark Wars
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New Thai-riffic! Albert (Lengy) Lengviriyakul, is fed up with being Thai. His parents own a Thai restaurant with the cheesy name of Thai-riffic! At school he is a bit of a troublemaker, going to any lengths to hide his background. But when his best friend decides to become Thai for a day for a school project, Lengy stubbornly comes to the realisation that there may just be some pretty cool things about his culture.
Terry Denton’s Bumper Book of Silly Stuff to Do! Packed full of hours of holiday fun, the Bumper Book is a must-have for every child! This fantastic activity book is full of fun drawing activities, cartoons, maps, lists and games to entertain children, take on holidays or pass the time on long car trips. Terry Denton has an uncanny ability to tap into all the funny, crazy, yucky, weird and downright silly things that children love!
The Fantastic and Amazing Gizmo Paul Jennings, the master storyteller, has been a huge success for over twenty years! The Gizmo series is great fun for young readers and perfect for encouraging them to read. Ages 7–9 • 198 x 129mm • 216pp • PB #04876 $19.95
Ages 6–8 • 298 x 211mm • 300pp • PB #05484 $16.95
Ages 10–12 • 198 x 129mm • 204pp • PB #04852 $16.95
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Cookbook for Girls
You Can Cook
Georgie Porgie
Fabulous food for gorgeous girls! The easy-to-follow, stepby-step recipes make cooking fun and easy, and with over 45 recipes from cupcakes to smoothies, they’ll never run out of things to do!
Get your child involved in all aspects of cooking – from choosing the ingredients, basic preparation and adding flavour to nutrition. Your child will pick up key cooking techniques: from slicing, dicing and chopping to how to cream, sift, knead and whisk. Plus, they’ll learn how to whip up over 60 delicious and healthy recipes that the whole family will enjoy, from pancakes to risotto.
With the help of much-loved chef and MasterChef Australia judge, George Calombaris, you’ll soon have your family and friends begging for more of your fabulous dishes. With easy-to-follow instructions and photographs that make cooking as easy as A B C, George will take you on a kitchen adventure featuring everything from family favourites like his famous spaghetti bolognese, pita bread and berry ice cream through to dinner-table dazzlers like slow-roasted pork belly, braised chicken and chocolate marshmallow soufflés.
Ages 7+ • 276 x 216mm • 128pp • HB #32613 $24.95
Ages 7–12 • 276 x 216mm • 128pp • HB # 50709 $24.95
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Ages 7+ • 260 x 210mm • 224pp • HB/Cloth # 82567 $39.95
How to Cook A lively introduction to cooking for older children with over 40 global recipes. Every recipe is clearly presented with step-by-step instructions, ‘look as you cook’ photography and a shot of the finished dish. The unique, sophisticated style will appeal to older children and teenagers, with recipes to suit their lifestyles, such as ‘Party at My Place’ and ‘Dishes to Impress’. Ages 12+ • 250 x 215mm • 128pp • HB # 63020 $29.95
Ready, Steady, Grow! Get your child in the garden, get sowing and harvesting and they will learn to grow all kinds of plants, vegetables and fruits quickly and easily! No need to wait months for results: they’ll be able to follow the simple instructions to raise fantastic plants in twelve weeks or much less. Soon they’ll have tasty tomatoes and delicious strawberries ready to eat in a week. There are fun projects, too: from making a pizza garden and growing a fairy ring, to designing a wildlife window box. So get ready, get steady and get growing! Ages 7+ • 276 x 216mm • 80pp • HB #37717 $24.95
Chess Easy steps to grandmaster greatness – now in paperback. From the opening move to checkmate, this stepby-step guide will help your child play chess like a champion. Whether they are just starting out, or are a bit of an expert, they’ll learn a great deal. Ages 8+ • 276 x 216mm • 72pp • PB
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Make It! Make It! from activity expert Jane Bull, gets your child re-using rubbish to create amazing things. Think about all the stuff we throw away every day, like plastic drink bottles and metal cans, magazines and even clothes; they can all be re-used. Over 100 crafty step-bystep projects will have your child turning humble household rubbish into amazing treasures you’ll want to keep.
Help your child discover the power of music and be inspired by cultures all over the world with the Children’s Book of Music. Discover how instruments are played and get the low-down on the fascinating lives and achievements of great composers, from Mozart to Debussy. Fun, try-ityourself activities with an interactive CD, this book is a delightful gift for budding musicians. Ages 7+ • 301 x 252mm • 144pp • HB #56855
$29.95
Ages 7–10 • 276 x 216mm • 64pp • PB #65079
Upper Primary
Children’s Book of Music
$14.95
New Children’s Book of Art In this beautiful and clear introduction to art, kids take a journey around the world visiting different countries, periods and styles. An engaging and exciting introduction to world art, containing over 1,000 photographs and artworks, this book’s interactive approach means that children get a lesson in art appreciation. Perfect for budding artists and art enthusiasts.
Made By Me Help your child get creative with activity expert Jane Bull. Learn basic sewing, embroidery, knitting and appliqué techniques, and enjoy using the simple patterns for lots of fabric fun. From bags, badges and bobble hats to jazzing up clothes and jewellery, there are lots of inspiring projects for your child to design and create.
Ages 7+ • 301 x 252mm • 144pp • HB #36598
$29.95
Ages 7–9 • 217 x 170mm • 64pp • HB #37243
$16.95
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Blast Lab Bright Ideas
Blast Lab
Science Kit
Introduce your child to Blast Lab Bright Ideas and they’ll discover all sorts of things to do with light and electricity! Bounce light about with your own kaleidoscope. Explore circuits by building a torch. Brighten up your home with glowing magnets. Power up the Blast Lab LEDs and perform extraordinary experiments with light and electricity.
Over 30 really cool experiments from Top Gear’s Richard Hammond. If your child loves the fun-filled science of Blast Lab, then get them experimenting at home with this exciting science book packed with experiments and challenges from the series. Hours of entertainment and learning by doing!
There’s plenty in Science Kit to keep every budding scientist busy! More than 100 experiments can be carried out using the equipment and books in the kit. You can: make the invisible visible with magnets, control a toy diver, find out how a boat floats, change notes on a pan pipe, perform a magic trick with an ice cube, and much more. Physics and chemistry have never been so exciting!
Contains: • 1 blue LED • 1 red LED • 1 green LED • 1 yellow LED • 2 X 20-cm wires
Ages 7+ • 276 x 216mm • 96pp • HB #37069
$29.95
Ages 7+ • 276 x 216mm • 48pp • HB #48218
$29.95
Contains: • 48-page Explore Science book • 42 experiment cards in a spiral-bound instruction set • Scientist’s notebook • Pop-out template cards for making models • Experiment equipment: magnets, straws, balloons, elastic bands, coloured acetate sheets, LED bulbs, wire, marbles, spools, stickers, boat shape, hex nut, dowels, iron filings, string, Styrofoam beads, pipette, and test tube Ages 10+ • 320 x 243mm • 48pp • Kit #73456 $39.95
Car Science Underneath the bonnet of every car there’s a lot of fast, furious and spectacular science going on – G-force, combustion, power. This is a turbo-charged tour through the nuts and bolts of car technology. Ages 7+ • 301 x 252mm • 96pp • HB #32002 $29.95
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Comprehension Once a Week
This updated edition of Grammar Once a Week contains double page units based on topics that allow for integration with other curriculum areas. Unit activities focus on sentence development, punctuation, parts of speech and word knowledge, while key grammar skills are repeated throughout the units to allow for constant revision. A detailed grammar and skills overview helps with planning focused lessons, and humour is used extensively throughout activities to help keep students interested and motivated.
Each book within the Comprehension Once a Week series contains 33-35 units in double-page spreads comprising a stimulus and an activity page to enhance clear critical thinking and problemsolving skills. An enormous variety of text types including facts, songs, instructions, tales, letters, calendars, poetry, newspaper reports, diaries, recipes, games, plays and interviews is provided to give students the opportunity to read, write and develop higher levels of comprehension. Ages 8–12 • 276 x 220mm • 72–76pp • PB
Ages 8–12 • 276 x 220mm • 80pp • PB
Book 1 #57517 Book 2 #11859 Book 3 #11866
Book 1 #59658 Book 2 #59665 Book 3 #59672
$12.95 each
$12.95 each
Look Inside Volcano
BrainBox Australia BrainBox Australia is a great 10 minute fun memory recall game and highly educational. Exploring great general knowledge themes and some “not so common” knowledge as well as interesting facts, this game will entertain the family for years to come! Players have 10 seconds to study a card before being asked a question from the back, chosen by the roll of the 8-sided dice. If the question is answered correctly the card is kept, if not it is returned to the box. The player with the most cards after 10 minutes wins! Contains: • 53 picture/question cards • 1 rules card • 1 sand timer • 1 eight sided die
Upper Primary
Grammar Once a Week
Ages 8+ • 120 x 120 x 120mm • 72–76pp • PB Australia #64285
$29.95
New
Look Inside Volcano gives you an exciting new look at the earth’s eruptions and explosions. It explains everything from what volcanoes are, how they form, and what happens during an eruption It’s packed with photos, bold graphics and information, as well as moveable pull and lift flaps that allow you to journey into the centre of the Earth. You’ll even see dramatic before and after images of real-life explosions. Look Inside Volcano is full of amazing explosive stuff – handle with care! Ages 7+ • 255 x 230mm • 18pp • HB #68049
$19.95
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Upper Primary
3-D Pop Ups
The Incredible Pop-Up Body Book
You won’t believe your eyes as ideas and information literally pop from the pages and move around in front of you in this next generation 3-D reference series! Augmented reality spreads are clearly marked and coloured to indicate the presence of a digital pop-up. The spreads are then ‘shown’ to the computer’s webcam to activate the specially commissioned 3-D animations, which pop up on screen and expand on the ideas presented in the book. Ages 10+ • 276 x 216mm • 72pp • HB
The Incredible Pop-Up Body Book gives a comprehensive overview of the human body and how it works to provide an essential and entertaining reference tool, answering all those burning questions. How are bones connected and what keeps them coordinated, how do you breathe, and can food go the wrong way around your digestive system?
Dinosaur 3-D Pop-Ups #63037 Human Body 3-D Pop-Ups #63044
$24.95 each
Includes a truly amazing child-size human skeleton popping out and dropping down from the back of the book. Ages 10+ • 301 x 252mm • 32pp • HB #68162 $35.00
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Alien Robots Kit The aliens have landed! Alien Robots Kit is the exciting new model kit from DK. See alien robots bring science to life in a whirr of motors, gears, axles, and propellers. Through building six alien robot moving models, children can learn about physics while they play. Discover how and why the models work, and how we use the science and mechanics in everyday life. The six models and a companion book illustrate in a lively and clear way how core scientific principles make things work. Each model is used to highlight a new area of science, including friction, vibrations, and gears. Even the electrical circuit that brings the models to life is explored and explained in a way that is easy to grasp.
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Ages 8+ • 283 x 235 x 40mm • 32pp • Kit #65901 $29.95
• Batteries are not included
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How Cool Is This? is an exciting introduction to inventions and technology. It’s packed with delights such as glow sticks and exploding bubbles, modern mysteries like e-ink and wind turbines and familiar objects from crash helmets to fireworks.
Now fully revised and updated! There is a wealth of incredible facts and images online—if only we know where to look. DK’s e.encyclopedia combines the best of a traditional encyclopedia with the best of the web. Throughout the book, special keywords are featured, such as ‘astronaut’ or ‘insects’. Readers can then type these keywords into e.encyclopedia dedicated website, which will provide them with downloadable images, streaming video, and a continually updated list of links to supplement the information in the book.
You’ll discover something fascinating while seeing familiar objects in a new light. Ages 7+ • 276 x 216mm • 80pp • HB #78822 $19.95
Upper Primary
How Cool Is This?
e.encyclopedia
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Ages 10+ • 276 x 216mm • 448pp • HB #37953 $49.95
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Know It All
Chocolate Fix
Know It All is the ultimate trivia-fest for curious minds. Pictorial galleries, timelines and ‘how to’ boxes with unusual step-by-steps so you can discover how to land on a comet, drink from a cactus or dance the tango. Fascinating, factual, fun and frighteningly addictive.
A logical deduction game! You must evaluate and combine clues to solve each puzzle challenge. Chocolate Fix will test your thinking ability and to top it off, it’s really fun to play!
Ages 10+ • 276 x 216mm • 304pp • HB #55339 $35.00
Ages 8+ • 40 Challenge booklet with solutions • 9 Chocolate pieces
• 1 Game Tray • I Game-go bag • 226 x 206 x 64mm #63035 $36.50
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Family Reference
Concise Atlas of the World
Australian Maths Dictionary
How to Photograph Absolutely Everything
This completely redesigned and updated encyclopedic atlas contains over 400 state-of-the-art digital maps of every region in the world. Informative text, photographs and diagrams provide a superb overview of the physical, political, economic and demographic geography of the world.
If you find maths tricky, are stuck on square roots or puzzled by prime numbers, help is on hand with this essential maths explainer adapted for Australian students. It’s packed with hundreds of mathematical entries covering words, phrases, shapes, measurements, concepts, calculations and much more, making everything easy to understand. It’s perfect for students of all ages up to the start of secondary school, and for parents who need a hand in helping out with maths homework too!
This is a practical and comprehensive guide from renowned photographer Tom Ang. Avoiding intimidating technical jargon, he explains the basic elements of photography, then goes on to show how to make them work for you. Using step-by-step instructions, every photographic subject, technique and challenge is covered, while showing you how to take the best picture in any situation.
Ages 10+ • 330 x 240mm • 384pp • HB #28012 $49.95
Ages 12+ • 220 x 255mm • 384pp • PB #33078
$39.95
Ages 7–12 • 210 x 148mm • 128pp • PB #37571 $19.95
Help Your Kids with Maths Gadgets, Games, Robots, and the Digital World Every day you text, tweet, stream songs, watch videos and send emails and Gadgets, Games, Robots and the Digital World is the book to tell you how. Discover the technology behind it all, from robots under the sea, to satellites in space and even the inside of your laptop. Loaded with facts and statistics from astounding pullout figures, maps and info graphics, Gadgets, Games, Robots and the Digital World will show you exactly what you’re connected to and how.
A monumental and extraordinarily beautiful guide to the Earth’s natural wonders. Covering over 5,000 species, The Natural History Book is one-of-a-kind; the only book to offer a complete survey of the Earth’s natural history. Each geological and biological grouping is introduced and explained in an engaging and highly informative way, making it the perfect addition to every family bookshelf, as well as an ideal gift for every nature lover. • 301 x 252mm • 648pp • HB
$59.95
$29.95
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Ages 7+ • 235 x 195mm • 256pp • PB #37830 $29.95
The Natural History Book
#36994
Ages 12+ • 276 x 216mm • 144pp • HB #67851
This comprehensive guide provides a one-stop-shop to help parents understand the maths being taught in Australian schools from middle primary to senior secondary. Covering all the core subjects, from basic arithmetic to geometry, from algebra to statistics, this invaluable new guide allows parents and kids to work together to solve even the trickiest problem.
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Examine the world from different angles and fresh perspectives in Zoom Encyclopedia. Captivating and clever, this brand new Encyclopedia focuses on the world in a unique way. With all subjects interconnected, you can zoom in and zoom out from one page to the next and see how everything is linked. Start your journey underground and watch the plants growing in the soil, then zoom out to a forest scene and meet a deer chewing grass on the forest floor. Imaginative images, close-ups, maps, graphs and info graphics will keep you guessing as you move from page to page. Ages 12+ • 301 x 252mm • 256pp • HB #67776
$39.95
This is possibly the world’s best puzzle game! Everyone from ages 6 to 106 can shape their imagination with this multi award winning Australian game. There are 101 exciting challenges just to get you started, plus a website offering a fresh challenge every week for the next 150 years! This enticing puzzle game for the whole family comes in a soft pouch for easy transport and storage. Contains: • 18 puzzle pieces, • Think Book, • Enkounter Game Book and Lifetime Membership Code Ages 6+ • 155 x 155mm #40013 $40.00
Award Winner
Family Reference
Kaleidoscope Classic Game
Zoom!
New Gobblet X4 Gobblet is a Multiple Award Winner game where you need four of your colour Gobblets in a row to win. But it is not as simple as it may sound...with different size Gobblets, gobble up yours or your opponent’s smaller Gobblets to set up a win, and don’t forget which Gobblets are hiding the smaller Gobblets or you may just win it for your opponent! Strategy, surprise and fun make Gobblet a great game for the whole family! Contains: • 1 Wooden Box • 1 Wooden Board • 24 Wooden pieces • Illustrated Rules
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Ages 7+ • 240 x 240 x 55mm #64308 $39.95
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Index
3-D Pop-Ups Series 4 in a Box Puzzles 100 Ways to Happy Children 100% Me: The How, Why and When of Growing Up 365 Thank Yous
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A Child’s First Bible A Giraffe in the Bath Accidental Princess, The Alien Robots Kit All Through the Year Allergy Friendly Cookbook Alphabet Book Animal Playtime Ask A Series Australian Maths Dictionary
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Baby and Toddler’s Big Book of Everything 21 Baby Massage 4 Baby Touch & Feel Board Book Series 14 Baby Touch Books 9 Babycenter Baby: The All-Important First Year 4 Babycenter Pregnancy: From Preconception to Birth 4 Baby’s Busy World 10 Babysense Secret, The 4 Bad Kitty Books 51 Bad-Tempered Ladybird, The 31 Ballet Shoes: 75th Anniversary Edition 52 Big Red Hen and the Little Lost Egg 33 Bingory 27 Blast Lab books 58 Boris, Series 53 Bottoms Up! 35 Boys’ Potty Time 20 BrainBox Australia 59 Bugalugs Bum Thief: Aussie Bites 53 Buggy Books 12
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Captain Buckleboots on the Naughty Step Captain Flinn & The Pirate Dinosaurs Series Car Science Charlie & Lola Books Chess Children’s Book of Art Children’s Book of Music Children’s Cookery Cards Chocolate Fix Complete Home Medical Guide
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Comprehension Once a Week Concise Atlas of the World Confidence Gap Construction Set Cookbook for Girls Cooking Cotton Reels Counting Book Criss Cross Crunch Time
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Daddy Loves Me Daizy Star and the Pink Guitar Diabetes Cooking Book, The Dinosaur Snaps DK Lego® Readers DK Star Wars Readers Do Dogs Dream?
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e.encyclopedia Each Peach Pear Plum Early Learning 123 Flashcards Early Learning ABC Flashcards Early Learning Library Eating at Home English Made Easy Eye Know Series
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Fantastic and Amazing Gizmo Bindup, The Favourite Mince Recipes Favourite Recipes for Your Baby & Toddler Feed Me! Feeding Your Baby & Toddler Felix First Facts Series First Reference Series First Words Picture Puzzle Box Flaptastic Series Food Intolerance Management Plan, The Funniest Stories Funnybones Gadgets, Games, Robots, and the Digital World Georgie Porgie Get Ready For Kindergarten Kit Giant Dominoes Girl Stuff Girls’ Potty Time Gobblet X4 Grammar Once a Week Grow It, Eat It
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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy 36 Harriet Bright: Holiday Hullabaloo 52 Hello Baby! 13 Help Your Kids With Maths 62 Hide & Seek Books 22 Hip Hip Hooray 5 Homework Helpers Series 44 How Cool Is This? 61 How Does My Garden Grow? 46 How To Cook 56 How to Get Things Done 2 How to Photograph Absolutely Everything 62 How to Raise An Amazing Child 4 How To… Series 47 Hullabazoo 33 I Can Eat a Rainbow Incredible Pop-Up Body Book, The Isabella’s Secret I-Spy Game, The It’s Lovely When You Smile
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Jerry the Giraffe Jewel Fish of Karnak, The Jumbo Shaped Board Books
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Kaleidoscope Classic Game Kids’ Parties Kidwrangling Know It All
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Lace Up! Laddie Activity Doll Ladybird Big Noisy Books Ladybird First Favourite Series Learn Your Fractions and Decimals Kit Learning Ladder Pre-School (3-5) Learning Ladder Years 1 & 2 CD-ROM Lifetimes Look Inside Volcano Losing the Last 5 Kilos Made by Me Make A Word Make It! Make-a-Word Magnets: First Phonics Maths Made Easy Mine! Mini Scientist Series
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Mission Fox Series 53 Mister Maker Series 47 Monsterbook: Rumblefart and the Beastly Bottom 55 Mousetrap Maths 30 Mummy & Me Cookbook 46 Mummy Loves Me 11 My Art Book 47 My Favourite Recipes 46 My First Book of Time 22 My First Chunky Board Book Series 12 My First Ladybird Dictionary 45 My First Ladybird Thesaurus 45 My First Series - Ladybird 14 My First Spin & Match Puzzle 15 My First Tabbed Board Books 17 My First Tell The Time Game 27 My First Touch and Feel Picture Cards 21 My First Wipe Clean Series 23 My First Words Flashcards 23 My Little Carry Books Series 12 My Very First Bible 20 My Very Noisy Sound Book Series 17 Natural History Book, The 62 New Guide to Medicines & Drugs: 1st Edition 6 Night Night Peter Rabbit: Luxury Cloth Book 10 Noisy Noisy Series 19 Noisy Peekaboo! Series 13 One Small Island Organic Baby & Toddler Cookbook Our Australian Girl Series Parenting Parenting by Heart Party Cakes Pat the Cat & Friends Peekaboo! Series Peepo! Gift Box 30th Anniversary Peepo Series Persuasion Peter Rabbit Finger Puppet Book Peter Rabbit: Ten Juicy Radishes Playtime Pop-Up Peekaboo! Series Princess Bitchface Syndrome, The Puddle the Naughtiest Puppy Series Puffin Book of Five Minute Stories, The
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Puffin Mother Goose Treasury, The
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Quack Quack 27 Questions Children Ask, and How to Answer Them 5 Rascal Series Ready, Set, Go? Ready, Steady, Grow! Revolting Rhymes Rhyming Flap books, Peekaboo Series Science Kit Sewing School Shark Wars Shine On Daizy Star Sing a Song of Bottoms! Sing-Along Rhymes Series Sophie’s Big Bed Spelling Made Easy Kit Spot’s Birthday Balloon Spot’s Essential Childhood Pack Stack-a-Peg Starter Stile Series Super Shiny Robots! Superhero Phonic Readers Superhero Phonics Flashcards
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Ted Goes Wild Ten Little Fingers & Ten Little Toes Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children Terry Denton’s Bumper Book of Silly Stuff to Do! Thai-riffic! This Dinosaur Is So Big This Little Series Tiddalick the Frog Who Caused a Flood Time For Bed Times Tables Book Times Tables Made Easy Kit Tinga Tinga Tales TLL Baby Sign Learning Kit Topsy and Tim Go Green Toy Boat Tractor Wheelies Transport Shaped Board Books Twist & Check Card Games Twist & Check Times Table Card Games
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Uno’s Garden
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Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book and Block Set, The Vtech Moosical Beads VTech Roll and Learn Pooh Ball Vtech Splash and Squirt Elephant What To Feed When Whatever Next! What’s That Noise, Spot? When Your Child is Ill Where is the Green Sheep? Where is the Green Sheep? Gift Set Whose? Lift the Flap Books Wicked Warriors and Evil Emperors Women’s Stuff
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You Can Cook
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Zingo! Zingo! 1-2-3 Zoom!
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