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Stories for Little Ones: Four beloved Australian picture books by Margaret Wild, Libby Hathorn, Ruthie May, Jane Godwin
Category: Picture Books | Series: Little Hare Treasuries Ser.
A celebration of babies and all the joy they bring … This keepsake treasury of Australian picture books is in turns funny, tender and playful. With tales from bestselling and award-winning creators Tamsin Ainslie, Jane Godwin, Libby Hathorn, Jane Massey, Ruthie May, Jan Ormerod and Margaret Wild, ...Show more
The ABC Book of Australian Poetry: A treasury of poems for young people by Libby Hathorn
Category: Graphic Novels
Follow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and explore the Australian landscape through the eyes of our best Australian poets. In this beautiful collection of poems for children, award-winning author and poet Libby Hathorn has brought together favourites ...Show more
The Best Cat, the Est Cat by Libby Hathorn; Rosie Handley (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels
Illustrated children's book about a mysterious talking cat invites children through the grand doors of the State Library of NSW. It's the Est Cat who wants to show them the biggest, the smallest, the strangest, rarest, the gluggiest! They see secret places, are followed by ghosts, examine fabulous treas ...Show more
The Blue Dress by libby hathorn
Category: Short Stories | Series: Growing up with Libby
Libby Hathorn has asked some of Australia s finest writers for their response to the painting by internationally acclaimed artist Brian Dunlop. First love, joy and disappointment, secrets, violence and the vagaries of fate are interwoven in these stories that remind us things are not always as they appe ...Show more
The Lenski Kids and Dracula (Aussie Bites) by Libby Hathorn
Category: Young Readers | Series: Aussion bites
The wild Lenski kids think they can scare off any babysitter - even Kim Kip. Little do they know... For ages 6+.
The Tram to Bondi Beach by Libby Hathorn
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Bluegum S.
A story of a young boy's adventures working as a paperboy on the busy trams, travelling to Bondi Beach. It was Kieran's dream to be a paperboy and when he finally gets the chance finds it's not as easy as he thought it would be but with his friend Saxon teaching him the ropes he eventually gets the oppo ...Show more
The Tram to Bondi Beach 40th Anniversary Edition by Libby Hathorn
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A story of a young boy's adventures working as a paperboy on the busy trams, travelling to Bondi Beach. Keiran wants nothing more than to be a paperboy on the busy trams, to Bondi Beach. What he discovers along the way, through daring and friendship, is a deep love of the trams themselves. Rattle and hu ...Show more
Thunderwith by Libby Hathorn
Category: Education
A modern Australian classic from bestselling author Libby Hathorn, now with a new, contemporary jacket in celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary. Lara feels completely alone after her mother's death. She moves to the bush to live with her father, but his new family make her feel like an intruder, a ...Show more
Twice the Ring of Fire by Libby Hathorn
Category: Fiction | Series: Ghostop
Determined to track down the tragedy of Rose Cottage, Juliet throws herself into discovering the identity of the ghost she keeps catching glimpses of. She learns the ghost's name, Rosette, along with many fantastic and conflicting accounts of her death. Juliet doesn't know what to believe.
Volcano Boy by Libby Hathorn
Category: Fiction
Placed in the custody of his puritanical Uncle Frank, Alexander finds himself in volcano-circled Rabaul, where the dark powers of the volcano call to him as powerfully as the dark eyes of Alice, his newfound love. Alexander records his experiences in a candid journal that surfaces many years after the v ...Show more