ALISON LESTER: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13..Bonnie and Sam are best friends. No one loves horses the way they do. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock...Now it's time for the Royal Show, and the girls are going to help their riding teacher get ready for a big competition. But in a backyard near the showgrounds they see a sad, starving pony - and it's Bonnie and Sam to the rescue!..Illustrated in full colour.
When Sophie rescues Otto, a baby bonobo clinging to life, her world
changes for ever. Until then, she had never understood her mother's
decision to create an animal sanctuary in one of the most dangerous
place on earth: the African Congo.
But one night, while her mother's away, rebel soldiers attack. To
save herself and Otto, Sophie must follow her heart into danger.
Nestled in the Virginia hills, Heartland is a place like no other - a horse sanctuary where even the most troubled horses can be healed. Amy hasn't seen her father for twelve years. Now it feels like she's waiting for a stranger to arrive, one who could shatter the peace of her life at Heartland. How will they get to know each other again? With all that's come between them, can it be their love of horses that brings them back together?
Nestled in the Virginia hills, Heartland is a place like no other - a horse sanctuary where even the most troubled horses can be healed. Amy knows Gallant Prince's fear comes from a previous stable fire. But ever since he arrived at Heartland, Amy has found it difficult to reach him. How can she help a horse that has taken refuge so deep within itself? This may just be one horse that Amy can't lead out of the darkness...but can she accept that?
King Lion is sad because it has not rained in his country for too long, and now not ony will nothing grow, but also the land is too hard to dig. He decides to ask his rich (fat) neighbour for help. But he is mistaken for a beggar and a robber, and is pursued home by Fat King and his army ...and his supply trucks. The soldiers in their trucks are so heavy, that hey leave deep ruts in the land, and when it finally rains the land is well prepared for seeds. It's War, but not as we know it - or should that be Peace? Or even peas?!!
The sun is setting, it's time for bed...but Clovis isn't at all sleepy! He has decided to be a night-tiger. He just needs someone to play with. Then he sees something flickering in the fading light...fireflies! Clovis plays 'I-spy' with the fireflies all night long and his boisterous, noisy participation in their game disturbs the slumbers of his rainforest friends. Then, when the new day starts, can you guess who's the most tired tiger in the whole jungle?
A fabulous pop-up book with sound, which will delight all Kipper fans. Would you like to hunt for a dinosaur or feed polar bears at the North Pole? Then this is the book for you! Hurry up or you might miss the journey of a lifetime! So climb aboard!
On a restaurant on a boat, in faraway Hong Kong, lives a little mouse. This enchanting story tells of his adventures when, one new year's night, he magics a carved wooden dragon into life and together they fly through midnight skies, over lands you and I only dream of...
