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Apple, Banana, Cherry by Joy Cowley (Illus. Elizabeth Fuller)
Category: Fiction
A fun way to discover the alphabet with rhymes and letters hiding in pictures. Apple! Banana! Cherry! Come with me! Let's have fun with our ABC. Open these pages many times for alphabet letters, hidden in rhymes.Some letters are big and some are small. See if you can find them all.
Bow Down Shadrach (#1) by Joy Cowley
Category: Fiction
Shadrach is a very old, circus-trained Clydesdale horse - and the favourite family pet. When Hannah discovers that Shadrach has been sold to a dog food factory, she decides to mount a heroic rescue and enlist the help of her two younger brothers. From the beginning, their plans go seriously wrong. By th ...Show more
Brodie by Joy Cowley
Category: Picture Books
Brodie is always making people laugh. He wiggles his ears and yodels like a country singer and tells far-out jokes. He's a brilliant artist, too: he draws loads of planes and helicopters, because he wants to be a chopper pilot. Everyone at school knows that Brodie is ill, and when he's in hospital they ...Show more
Brodie by Joy Cowley (illus Chris Mousdale)
Category: Fiction
"Brodie was a really cool guy. He was always lots of fun to be with and he was an awesome artist. Planes and helicopters were his passion and we used to joke about me bungy-jumping from his chopper. Yeah right! "We always knew that Brodie was sick, but we never expected him to die." A child reminisces a ...Show more
Cinderella by Charles Perrault, Joy Cowley (editor)
Category: Picture Books
In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses its effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper. The illustrations set the story in 1920s London.
Cricket's Storm by Joy Cowley
Category: Fiction
All the creatures in the garden fear the coming storm but Cricket stays cheerful and not afraid to get a little wet.
Day and Night by Mi-Hye Kim; Joy Cowley (Editor); Yun-jeong Shim (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Duck Walk by Joy Cowley
Category: Fiction
Ducks swim, paddle, paddle. Ducks talk, quack, quack. Ducks walk, waddle, waddle. Little duckling at the back. Little duckling wanders off to look at a beetle, hunt a bumblebee and discovers that hanging back from the group can be a dangerous placee when she encounters old scratchy cat. This is a g ...Show more
Dunger by Joy Cowley
Category: Young Adult Fiction
William and Melissa have been roped into helping their weird grandparents fix up their holiday home in the country. How will they cope with no electricity, no mobile phone reception and only each other for company?
Fly Pie by Joy Cowley
Category: Picture Books
Once there was a frog who had been a prince. He knew he could become a prince again if he were kissed by a princess ... but there's this cute girl frog on the lily pad next door. When the girl frog asks him to marry her, he tells her he can't because he's a prince in disguise, and off he goes to find hi ...Show more
Freddy Bear and the Beach by Joy Cowley
Category: Children's | Series: Freddy Bear
Freddy Bear is off to the beach with Dad. He runs, he plays, he chases seagulls, the waves chase him. Then, oops, Freddy Bear has a little accident! The Freddy Bear books are designed for reading aloud to children 6 months to 3 years. The main character, a little bear living with loving, supportive pare ...Show more
Friends (Snake and Lizard #2) by Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop
Category: Children's | Series: Snake and Lizard
From the award-winning duo of Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop, this is a new book of stories about the daily adventures of the lovable pair - Snake & Lizard. Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centred; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. With its wisdom, acceptance and good humour, Friends: ...Show more