Po the Pussycat's Big Day Out!

Po is a black and white indoor cat who usually spends her days snuggled up inside. On an autumn day she decides to go exploring the local neighbourhood. Meeting friends along the way and taking in her surroundings, Po comes to realise that life as an indoor cat is perfect for her.

Playing in the Twilight

What happens to cricketers when their reflexes slow down, when their hand-eye coordination declines, when the quality of the afternoon tea is more important than the quality of the pitch? Nothing. They keep playing. In the Vets.

Playing in the Twilight chronicles the journey of Melbourne’s Canterbury Cricket Club veterans’ team through a decade of cricket.

Michael Angwin writes about the games themselves, and about what Canterbury’s veterans value about cricket and how those values are reflected in the way they play it.

Playing in the Twilight has a warm, self-mocking, self-deprecating style reflecting the ways Canterbury’s veterans engage with each other and with their rivals. As their careers lengthen, cricket becomes for Canterbury’s vets not just a Sunday afternoon activity but a source of comradeship and community beyond Canterbury and even beyond Australia.

Playing in the Twilight is whimsical and wistful, and nostalgic and regretful at its best on gentle late-summer days, stoic and resigned, joyful in languor and dependent on friendship and love.

The book’s inspiration includes philosophy, science, the Olympics, politics, Disney, Machiavelli, JMW Turner, Greek mythology, Catholic doctrine and Scottish insular monasticism.

It celebrates veteran cricketers when their bodies no longer respond to their still agile minds, like a hat that one of Canterbury’s stalwarts wore: Old, frayed, experienced, loved, not as effective as it once was, but serviceable enough to keep going without having to be replaced by a new version that might not see out even one summer.

Plastic

Did you know that every single minute of the day, a truck load of plastic is dumped in our oceans? Did you know that by the time you are an adult there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish? Did you know that sea animals can’t tell the difference between food and plastic?

Even if you didn’t know all those facts about plastic that’s OK, but here are some more questions. Do you care about your oceans, and rivers, and seas? Do you want to help the creatures that live there? Do you want them to live on our planet forever and ever? Do you think that plastic is a bad thing to have in the ocean?

If you say yes to all those questions, then you will love reading about what happens to the animals when they eat plastic, and what you might be able to do to save them. Every one of us has a role to play to make sure all our sea animals are safe and happy and that their homes are clean and healthy. You can play this role too.

Pixie Van Dimple and the Wrong Kind of Artificial Intelligence

Introducing twelve-year-old Pixie Van Dimple, the centre of all the drama, the protagonist and heroine! She is a typical girl; goes to school, hangs out with her friends in the park, has sleepovers, loves shopping and is always hungry! She also loves her phone! The linchpin of her world. Everyone has one and they are all connected - all is not well in smart phone world though as there are many dangers… she has been warned… what is the fuss about? Well, she will soon find out and it is truly disturbing.

Piggy Tales

Five stories, all delightfully painted in watercolour paint.

All the stories are about a family of pigs. Their adventures are sure to make you smile. See how Baby Clara pig grows with each story.

Also, you can have the added fun of finding the little mouse that is in many of the pictures.

Pigglepatch Wood

Johnny, a small boy who lived in a tiny village a long time ago, had always sought adventure and excitement. One day Johnny was told by one of the village elders that inside of Pigglepatch Wood was hidden a great treasure brimming with gold and jewels.

There was a problem, however...

Everyone was scared of the woods as it was said that there were hideous, scary creatures waiting inside for anyone entering the woods!

In fact, no one had ever returned from the woods...

Johnny decided to make a sword and hatch a plan.

The villagers waved goodbye as Johnny made off towards Pigglepatch Wood – what would he find, and would he return?

Phoebe’s Adventure

Cara shares her bedroom with her toys, but she has no idea what they get up to when she is not there, which is probably a good thing!

Some are very special to Cara, some not so much.

The house is quiet, Cara and her mum have left for school, the lady who tidies up has arrived. The toys are alone and behaving themselves, for now anyway! Misty and Pip, Cara’s cats, are curled up downstairs on the sofa, probably for the rest of the day!

Phoebe, who lives high up on the bookcase, spends her day gazing out of the window or looking around the bedroom, wishing she could join the toys that she sees every day having so much fun.

She calls the toys ‘the Gang’.

Phineas J. Rabbit's Prized Hand-Painted Egg Is Missing

Time was running out for Phineas J. Rabbit, the owner of Coloured Eggs Unlimited. All seemed to be going as scheduled, except for one thing. Now, Phineas J. Rabbit’s prized hand-painted, truly egg-nificient, egg-quisite, egg-cellent, egg-ceptionally different from anything he had ever created egg was missing, and the Egg-stravaganza in the town square was starting in just two hours! Sunnie Bunny, Hunnie Bunny and Bunnie Bunny froze in fear. No one knew the egg was missing! Bunnie, Hunnie and Sunnie would all learn a valuable lesson about playing while you are supposed to be working and the value of following instructions, egg-specially Uncle Phineas’ instructions! The mild peril endured by Phineas is mitigated by close friends, thus making the young readers assured that they’re not on their own.

Percival and the Hall of Mirrors

Follow in the footsteps of brave, young Percival, the Papillon dog, as he fights for his great king Louis XIV, in seventeenth-century France. Teaming up with his animal friends, such as Marcel the Mouse and Thierry the Tortoise, and his human allies, Percival has to navigate dangerous waters in order to ensure the safety of the king and France. Bursting with historical facts and detail and a smattering of French, Percival and the Hall of Mirrors is both educational and fun. It is livened up with great illustrations. Seventeenth-century France is brought to life in this animated illustrated children’s adventure.

Penny's Special Place

I always believed that if I could flap my arms hard and fast enough, one day I would be able to fly!

We all want to be good at something. So does Penny!

But Penny is NOT a typical 8-year-old! She has a great imagination and big dreams and ambitions. And in her special place, she is able to achieve whatever she wants! But what isn’t Penny telling us?

Do all dreams have to be real or achievable?

Penny’s imagination sets her free.

Penny Pitt And The Stinky Zoo

Penny Pitt lives next door to a zoo, but her friends won’t come to play because the air smells of stinky animal poo – yuck!

But then Penny has an idea. She feeds all the animals her favourite foods…

Want to know what happens when you feed jelly to a whale? Or chocolate to a hippo? Read Penny Pitt and the Stinky Zoo to find out!

Peeko the Penguin Looks for Love

A baby penguin called Peeko goes on a journey to find someone to love as he thinks his family doesn't love him. Will he meet big, white monsters on his journey? Will he ever find his way back home? Will he ever find someone to love him?