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  • The Great Aussie Easter Egg-and-Spoon Race

    The Great Aussie Easter Egg-and-Spoon Race

    Promoting the values of sharing, caring and helping others, author Sophie Sayle has created the perfect book to give a 4-6 year old with a small chocolate treat for Easter. This attractive, hard covered book, is beautifully illustrated by New Zealand winner of prestigious illustration awards, Daron Parton.

    Easter morning has arrived, the Australian bush animals each contribute colours for decorating the eggs left by Easter Bilby, however Echidna is unable to find any colour. No problem his friends share theirs with her.  Soon the bush babies are cradling their eggs and the egg-and-spoon race begins; who will win? Find out how her friends help her, when poor echidna trips and her egg rolls away. 

    The adults, sharing this fun story with their youngsters, will find themselves smiling as they read.

  • Do You Love Dinosaurs?

    Do You Love Dinosaurs?

    Do You Love Dinosaurs is a brightly coloured picture book begins with rules for dinosaur enthusiasts. Rule number one says, “Never turn your back on a hungry hunter.” The following pages show descriptions and illustrations of some meat-eating dinosaurs, and just how fast they can move. Next, we learn about some tiny, but fierce creatures who live on land, and some who can hunt on land and in the water.

    There are large illustrations of some gentle giants and also the terrifying T Rex to pore over. The vegetarian dinosaur group is drawn along with the raptors. In fact, every dinosaur that you can think of is depicted here, with information about each one given. The raptor could run as fast as a whippet, and the stegosaurus had a very tiny brain.

    Each page of the book shows different creatures and gives interesting facts about them. The illustrations are lively, varied, and colourful. Amusingly, the dinosaurs are shown in some humorous poses which alleviates any misgivings a young reader may have.

    Many children become fascinated with dinosaurs and as Do Your Love Dinosaurs is a very enjoyable book it will answer many questions as well as give added explanations for the experts.

  • We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt

    We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt

    Martha Mumford and Laura Hughes are back with their latest rollicking good adventure, We’re going On A Treasure Hunt with a boat load of pirates, which turns out to be a huge amount of fun, as there are some wonderful discoveries made under secret flaps to intrigue all little readers.

    Counting the many treasures to be discovered as the pages turn by lifting the very tempting flaps to help the pirates, well maybe not so helpfully, find all 10 of the golden coins they are seeking, adds a sneaky learning aspect to the story as well; as you would expect from pirates! Along the way they meet a pod of dolphins who try to capsize their little tiny boat, and then a colony of little crabs think pinching the pirate’s toes is a very funny thing to do.

    Monkeys join in as only monkeys can, by dropping coconuts on the treasure hunting pirates and trying to shoo them off their Island.  Somewhere of course there is a very toothy shark and a number of very loud parrots to be discovered.

    Counting, seeking and a lovely rollicking style of text come together to make We’re going On A Treasure Hunt a book full of fun, adventure and lots of noisy bedtime reading for beginner readers and younger who love, love, love a great pirate story.

    Well, after all  who does not love a very good, very noisy pirate story!