Who Was Charles Darwin?

Deborah Hopkinson

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickness during his five-year voyage aboard The Beagle. Darwin collected new creatures from the coasts of Africa...

Great Bites for Girls

VARIOUS

Great Bites for Girls is a collection of four popular Aussie Bites stories compiled especially for girls. The Sugar-Gum Tree by Patricia Wrightson, illustrated by David Cox: Sarah Bell and Penny May were best friends. Sometimes they had fights, but afterwards they were best friends again. Then one day t...

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth . ...