I have just sat down to read this book at a time when the world is far from welcoming. Conflict, anger, hatred and distrust are in the air. A Hundred Thousand Welcomes is the tonic that the world so desperately needs.
There are so many ways to make someone feel welcome. Willkommen, yōkoso, khush āmdīd, bienvenida, shāgata…simple phrases that can mean the world. Every day, all across the world, people welcome others into their lives and homes. For when we welcome, accept and embrace others the world can be a better, more harmonious and peaceful place. In our world, everyone is welcome…
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The Smart Cookie is the fifth title in John Jory and Pete Oswald’s foodie series and readers are in for a sweet treat.
Cookie is part of a warm and supportive community of baked treats that live in a bakery on Sweet Street. But life wasn’t always sweet. There was a time when Cookie lacked confidence, when school was hard, when grades were not the best and when the clever cupcakes and capable croissants knew everything before they did. These days of not feeling smart had left Cookie feeling pretty crumby. But Ms Biscotti knew that Cookie was smart and with a dash of creativity and a sprinkle of confidence she has just the plan to help Cookie see that there are many different ingredients for intelligence… Stories of survival and battling against the odds are always popular and Gary Paulsen is somewhat of an expert in delivering thrilling and enthralling tales that resonate with readers who fancy their own journeys into the wilderness.
Before arriving at the fishing village, orphan Leif had spent most of his twelve years aboard fishing boats, being worked to the bone and beaten for any indiscretions. When a cholera outbreak sweeps through the village, Old Carl instructs Leif to head north to safety. Equipped with a few essentials and forced to take Little Carl with him, Leif finds himself back in a boat in very different circumstances. For the first time in his life he is the master of his own destiny but whilst he may have escaped a deadly disease every day at sea will be a battle to survive…
First published in 2018, the A-Z of Australian Animals is now available as a paperback and is the perfect accompaniment to Jennifer Cossins’ Ultimate Animal Alphabet Book, Ultimate Animal Counting Book and A-Z of Endangered Animals.
To say that Australia has a rich and unique collection of wildlife is somewhat of an understatement. Australia is home to more endemic - meaning they are only found there - animals than anywhere else in the world, has over eight-hundred bird species, over half of which are found nowhere else in the world, and is home to the only egg-laying mammals in the world.
This is the fifth book in the series and the unicycle riding, breakfast-loving Mr Bambuckle with his jacket-full-of-surprises is back doing what he does best…teaching - although not necessarily the things that grumpy principal Mr Sternblast wants him to be - and empowering children.
With the recent closure of the Blue Valley Grammar private school, four extraordinary new learners have joined class 12B and Mr Bambuckle is thrilled. Despite some initial nerves, he soon has the newcomers under his spell. But all is not well at the school and Principal Sternblast is up to no good with a secret project that could see most of 12B looking for a new school. If 12B want to save their school, their class and their teacher they need to hatch a plan or school as they know it will be no more…
There’s magic in the air, or more precisely in the water, at Hill House estate and George is about to have a very problematic magical encounter.
On a large estate in the English countryside live two families. George and his groundskeeper dad, Gabe, live in a small cottage and their good friends Lady Jane, her daughter Koko and Midnight, a huge, loveable dog, reside in Hill House. After George witnesses Lady Jane’s new husband, Clive, perform an impossible magic trick, he is sure that the fountain holds the secret. But whilst trying to prove to Koko that real magic does exist George accidentally casts a body-swap spell that switches his body with Midnight's. |
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