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How We Used To Live In Australia : Schools & Education by Rachel Dixon
Category: Children's History | Series: How We Used To Live In Australia
What did children do all day at school in the 1800s? Schools in the past were different in some ways from modern schools, but they also had many features that are just the same today. Ranging from the curriculum to lunchtime food, from games to writing styles, this book compares the past with the presen ...Show more
How We Used To Live In Australia : Toys & Games by Rachel Dixon
Category: Children's History | Series: How We Used To Live In Australia
For millennia, people have given their children toys to help them learn about the world around them. The toys children play with demonstrate how cultures from around the world can be both different and exactly the same. When the early colonists arrived in Australia, they found that Aboriginal children w ...Show more
How We Used To Live In Australia : Transport by Rachel Dixon
Category: Children's History | Series: How We Used To Live In Australia
From simply walking around to using space shuttles, human beings have a vast array of transport methods. In colonial Australia, the importance of the horse to all types of human activities is often not recognised. Camels and oxen also played a role in the history of business, industry and just getting f ...Show more
How to Babysit a Grandma by Jean Reagan; Lee Wildish (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: How to Ser.
Celebrate the special bond between grandmas and grandkids with this delightful New York Times bestseller that puts the kids in charge of babysitting...if just for one day. The perfect gift for Mother's Day, Grandparent's Day, and any day shared with Grandma When you babysit a grandma, if you're lucky, ...Show more
How to Babysit a Grandpa by Jean Reagan; Lee Wildish (Illustrator)
Category: Board Books | Series: How to Ser.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Celebrate the special bond between grandpas and grandchildren in this delightful New York Times bestseller that puts the kids in charge! The perfect gift for Father's Day, Grandparent's Day, and any day shared with Grandpa! Here's everything a kid needs to know to spend a fu ...Show more
How to Bath Your Little Dinosaur (Board) by Jane Clarke
Category: Board Books | Series: How To
Dirty little dinosaur doesn't want to wash . . . Fill up the bath tub, splish, splash, SPLOSH! A board book all about bath time! Discover the big moments and daily routines of every toddler's life with lovable animal characters and a playful, rhyming text. Each story features a child with their very o ...Show more
How to Be Brave by Daisy May Johnson
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: How To Be
A fizzingly funny, heartfelt middle-grade novel about a resourceful girl, her impractical mother and a kidnapping mystery. Some stories are about adventure. Some are about heroes. Some are about ducks. This one is about all three. Calla's mum has never been normal. She's been known to go out in a lab ...Show more
How to Be Content by Arlene Unger; Jo Parry (Illustrator)
Category: Personal Development | Series: How to Be Ser.
From ancient civilisations to the modern day, philosophers, writers, artists, religious leaders, and health practitioners - to name a few - have debated the questions: 'What is happiness?' and 'How can we achieve it?' In this book, we take a meandering journey through the rich philosophical landscape of ...Show more
How to Be a Baby... by Me, the Big Sister by Sally Lloyd-Jones; Sue Heap (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: How to Ser.
The New York Times praised this best-selling picture book as "adorable, original, well-illustrated and fabulous." In this first book in the How-To Series (which includes How To Get Married and How to Get a Job), the know-it-all big sister narrator tells it like it is: When you're a baby you don't read b ...Show more
How to: Be a Better Leader by John Gordon, Stefan Stern
Category: Business | Series: How to: Academy Ser.
We know that businesses and organisations expect people at all levels to show initiative and display good leadership qualities, but to put this into practice is easier said than done. This book will show you how you can become a better leader, whether you're already in charge of a large team, or you're ...Show more
How to Be a Hero (#1) by Cat Weldon
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: How to Be a Hero
A no-good viking thief. The worst-ever trainee valkyrie. An ungodly case of mistaken identity.When failing trainee valkyrie Lotta mistakes an unconscious viking thief, Whetstone, for a fallen hero and takes him triumphantly to Valhalla, things are definitely not turning out to be epic or glorious. Havin ...Show more
How to Be a Pirate in 7 Days or Less by Jan Lewis
Category: Children's | Series: How to be a...
Shiver me timbers! Pirates ahoy! Cool, clever Captain Kid has lots of advice for would-be pirates, from pirate names to what to wear, how to run a tight ship and manage a crew of bloodthirsty buccaneers! This simple seven-day plan helps the reader to become a proper pirate and celebrate by throwing a fa ...Show more