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Amazing Facts About Australia by Karin Cox
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Amazing Facts
Welcome to the Steve Parish Amazing Facts range. The series presents informative facts, illustrations and extraordinary photographs to help you learn about this remarkable continent and its social and natural history.
Amazing Facts About Australia's Early Settlers by Karin Cox
Category: Activity Books | Series: Amazing Facts
Australia is unique in being home to an ancient, 60,000-year-old Indigenous culture and also a very young European influence of just over 200 years. While their coexistence has been far from peaceful, both have proven to be tenacious, resourceful and resilient, eking out an existence on one of the tough ...Show more
Australian Citizenship by Karin Cox
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Young Reed
On the surface, Australia is a vast, flat, dry continent miles away from the rest of the world. It has experienced, throughout its history, racist incidents that still demand justice. Yet it is also a democratic country that is economically sound, supports equality of gender, religion and race, respects ...Show more
Australians At War by COX KARIN
Category: Children's Educational
Australia is a young country with a short military history, yet out involvement in conflict has helped shape us, as a nation, and how we respond to foreign affairs. Unlike some countries, Australia has never had to fight for independence or endure invasions on home turf (with the exception of British Co ...Show more
Down to Earth (HB) by Karin Cox
Category: Picture Books | Series: Steve Parish Kids Hardcover Picture Books Ser.
Jemima the koala and her baby, Mimi, have lived all their lives in the tree tops. When Stella the jabiru holds a party, the koalas are tempted to come down. Squint the echidna thinks they're too snobby to leave their lofty home, but is he mistaken? Are the koalas down to earth after all? Ages 3+.
First Australians: The Story of Indigenous Australia by Karin Cox
Category: Children's Educational
Before European settlement, about 700 Aboriginal nations - each of which had their own Dreaming songs, laws, customs and beliefs and spoke one of 250 or so languages - existed in Australia by the time Europeans began to explore this continent in the 1600s. First Australians is a comprehensive book for p ...Show more
First Explorers by Karin Cox
Category: Children's Educational
Imagine stumbling across a forgotten continent, a place like nowhere else on Earth. A place inhabited by strange hopping mammals, venomous snakes, and Aborigines who hurl spears at your approach. You made it across vast, treacherous oceans, surviving on stale, fast diminishing provisions, and now that y ...Show more
Gold Rush by Karin Cox
Category: Children's Educational
By the mid 1800s, Australia (known as the Colony of New South Wales until 1824), had thrown off the shackles of its penal past and was becoming a prosperous place where clever businessmen and entrepreneurs could seek their fortunes. However, the incident that most changed Australia's fortunes was the di ...Show more
Gold Rush by Karin Cox
Category: Children's Educational
By the mid-1800s, Australia (known as the Colony of New South Wales until 1824), had thrown off the shackles of its penal past and was becoming a prosperous place where clever businessmen and entrepreneurs could seek their fortunes. However, the incident that most changed Australia's fortunes was the di ...Show more
Government in Australia: How Democracy Works by Karin Cox
Category: Education
Who is Australia's head of state? What does your local council do? What is the High Court? How do you vote? What kind of political system do we live in? You will find the answers to this and many other questions about Government and politics in this colourful illustrated book.
Kangaroos and Their Relatives by Karin Cox; Steve Parish
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: A\Wild Australia Guide
Wild Australia Guides are must-have, ready references for around the home, in the car or to be tucked into a backpack. The series features stunning photographs and compact text for quick and easy identification. Each species profile provides essential information about its identifying features, habitat, ...Show more
Petra postie by COX, KARIN
Category: Children's
Adding to the success of the hardcover storybook range are two wonderful new titles by Karin Cox: Petra the Postie and Rita Big-eater and the Terrible Tooth. These engaging stories, each cleverly blending Australian animal facts with fiction and illustrated by Steve Parish's wonderful images are sure to ...Show more