CHILDREN'S LITERATURE from Bookhome Sydney

Sydney: Brock Creative Media, 2018. Paperback oblong quarto, stapled, very good condition, colour drawings, minor edgewear. 32 pp. This delightful humorous Australian children's picture book by Kale Brock, with full-colour full-page drawings by Helga Seward, will suit most ages. Mandy and her one trillion microbial friends live a happy life in Jack's gut. He feeds his microbes with a… Read more about this item

New York: Gallery Books, 1983. 1st U.S., reprint ed.. Hardback small quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good jacket), colour & black & white text-drawings, reverse side jacket little foxed, minor edgewear. 140 pp. A beautiful book, compiled by Bryan Holme, that relates the life of Kate Greenaway, as well as a selection from her famous children’s… Read more about this item

Sydney, Brookvale: National Book Distributors, 1993. Reprint ed.. Paperback small folio, very good condition, colour drawings, minor edgewear. 32 pp. A children's picture book in 'The Possum Creek' series. Verse by Dan Vallely, illustrated by Yvonne Perrin. Possum Creek is swept away by a big flood, and all the bush animals and birds rebuild their home. The bright very… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Richmond: Hardie Grant Explore, 2021. Reprint ed.. Paperback small wide quarto, very good condition, colour drawings & colour pages, minor edgewear. 87 pp. This Aboriginal children's picture book is full of fascinating facts about astronomy to engineering, chemistry to forensic science, bush medicine and more. Corey Tutt, OAM, from DeadlyScience, shares many Aboriginal feats, in both ancient and… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Richmond: Hardie Grant Explorer, 2020. Reprint ed.. Paperback oblong quarto, very good condition, full-page colour drawings, minor edgewear. 40 pp. A very special children's picture book about the Uluru Statement to give younger Australians an understanding of Australia's past behaviour towards Aboriginal Australians, so we can all have a shared future. The large colour illustrations and easy-to-read text… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022. Hardback large oblong quarto, no jacket asissued, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour photos & drawings, illustrated endpapers, colour drawings. 32 pp. This beautiful children's picture story by Aunty Shaa Smith and Neeyan Smith tells the story of the koala brothers, the Dunggiirr Brothers. The story belongs to Ngambaa Country on the mid-north coast… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Puffin Books / Penguin Books, 1988. 19th printing ed.. Paperback large quarto, very good condition, full-page colour & sepia (brown-coloured) drawings, base last page little creased, minor edgewear. 44 pp. The first children's picture book (written in verse) by the leading author/artist Graeme Base. Grandma lived in rural town Gooligulch, and everyone new her and about all… Read more about this item

Margaret River, WA: Self-Published: Susan Satari / Printed in India, 2005. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback quarto, very good condition, stapled, full-page colour drawings, autograph (author's written initials inside front cover), minor edgewear, faint sticker mark inside rear cover. 31 pp. A children's picture story by Susan Satari about a girl named Meg who learns the fantasy secret of putting… Read more about this item

Sydney: Ashton Scholastic, 2002. 1st ed.. Hardback quarto, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, full-page colour drawings, horizontal strip on free flyleaf (strip of paper removed leaving a light impression on the blue endpaper), minor edgewear. 32 pp. Children's picture story by Arone Raymond Meeks, being an Aboriginal legend. Sisa gets lost from her family, and meets a… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022. Reprint ed.. Hardcover oblong small quarto, very good plus condition, full-page colour drawings, tiny scuff base spine, minimal edgewear. 32 pp. This children's picture story by Radhiah Chowdhury is about a girl called Asiya who loves to visit Nanu’s house. Asiya loves the quilts that tell the stories of the women in Asiya’s family.… Read more about this item

Sydney, Newtown: Walker Books, 2022. 1st p/b ed.. Paperback small wide quarto, very good plus condition, colour drawings, minimal edgewear. 29 pp. A beautiful true story by Christipher Cheng about a wombat. The sun fades from the sky and Wombat is about to start her day. This very special book has Wombat's story and Wombat facts included on the… Read more about this item

Melbourne,: Thomas C. Lothian, 1998. 1st ed.. Hardback quarto, no jacket, good condition, pictorial cover, colour drawings (full-page), orange endpapers, few foxed spots first two pages & last page, minor edgewear. 28 pp. A beautiful children's picture story for cat-lovers of all ages, by Jeri Kroll. Once there was an old lady who lived alone, or so her neighbours… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1982. Hardback small folio, dustjacket, good condition (in good dustjacket), blue cloth boards, full-page colour drawings, black & white drawings (some full-page), tiny hole front cloth cover near spine (affects front free flyleaf), edge tears jacket (archival tape repairs reverse side), some edgewear. 64 pp. A delightful classic children’s picture story, written and illustrated by… Read more about this item

Sydney, Gosford: Scholastic Australia, 2014. 1st, reprint ed.. Paperback small square quarto, very good condition, stapled, full-page colour drawings, minor creasing covers & spine. 22 pp. This Australian picture book by Marcello Pennacchio uses Australian native animals to count from one to ten. Ten is the famous red back spider and her family. The beautiful full-page colour drawings by… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1992. 25th Anniversary ed.. Paperback square quarto, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour drawings, spine lightly creased, minor edgewear. 28 pp. A wonderful children's picture story by Libby Hathorn about a boy named Keiran who sold papers, but planned to drive the trams he loved to travel on so much. The bright life-like drawings by… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Penguin Random House Australia, 2019. 1st Australian ed.. Hardback square folio, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, full-page colour drawings, spine ends minimally rubbed, rear endpaper little creased. 48 pp. This iconic children's picture story by Graeme Base is a sweeping drama of intrigue and excitement set in the beautiful but fragile underwater world of a pond.… Read more about this item

Bath, UK: Parragon Books Ltd / Gullane Books, 2013. 1st this ed.. Paperback small square quarto, very good condition, full-page colour drawings, top corner tips few pages little creased, minor edgewear. 28 pp. This beautiful children's picture story in verse is based on an original poem by Jane Taylor, starring an owl. This is an enchanting version of a… Read more about this item

Sydney: Collins, 1983. 1st ed.. Hardback square quarto, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour drawings, small tears base hinge rear endpapers, minor edgewear. 32 pp. Children's picture story based on a classic Japanese tale (adapted by Helen Smith), and illustrated by Junko Morimoto. One winter's day an old man saved a crane stuck in the… Read more about this item

Sydney, Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2022. Reprint ed.. Hardback small wide quarto, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour drawings, two small bumps top edge rear cover, cover corners slightly bumped, tiny scuff top of spine. 32 pp. This is a warm family story by Miranda Tapsell (Aboriginal actress, with part-Tiwi Islands heritage) and Joshua… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Fantastic Phonics / Aboriginal Literacy Foundation, 2012. 1st ed.. Paperback oblong, very good condition, stapled, colour drawings, spine ends slightly scuffed, minor edgewear. 20 pp. This children's indigenous literacy picture story by Jennifer Cooper-Trent is about the many things both good and bad that we find everyday to smell. The drawings and easy-to-read text will appeal to any… Read more about this item