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Abbey's children's and young adult section contains thousands of books for kids of all ages, from baby to teenager. The collection is lovingly curated by Lindy Jones, Buyer and Senior Bookseller at Abbey's. Lindy is also on the judging panel of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier accolade for fiction writing.
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The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens...
Paperback
$16.99
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Cat Kid Comic Club: the new blockbusting bestseller...
Hardback
$17.99
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The Physics of Popcorn: Discover and Learn with 22 Experiments...
Paperback
$29.99
To be ordered
From the prolific author-illustrator cames another wonderfully quirky and entertaining book to share and enjoy with little readers. It's in the vein of the best-selling Mopoke, with lots of silliness wrapped up in wordplay and expressive illustrations but using the marsupial instead. So we start with Wombat, go on to Twobats, then Threebats. Whether Acrobat or Pingbat (followed of course by Pongbat and its cubic poo) or Dingbat and so on the illustrations contain their own in-jokes, and the sequences are not always predictable - but always funny. Another winner! Lindy
This is a bushfire tale rather than a cutesy Mothball the Wombat story, so the use of a different illustrator separates French's usual wombat books from this one. The creatures of the bush flee before a fire, and some of them find refuge in the wombat's burrow. In the aftermath, they all suffer, but help comes from an unexpected quarterÂ… Simple but effective rhyming conveys a harsh tale with delicacy and eventually hope. The illustrations in soft browns and greys are non-confrontational but match the words effectively. Partial proceeds of this go towards the Wombat Protection Society, so you can combine a good book for little children with doing good! Lindy
Katherine knows that everyone has a passion. Her Dad's is art, her Mum's is insects, her brother's is music. She's tried lots of things herself, but they aren't for her, because the thing she likes the best is - maths! She knows it's everywhere, hidden in the everyday, and that her passion can be hard to understand. But that's okay, because there are infinite ways to see the worldÂ… Charming watercolour and ink illustrations demonstrate some of Katherine's pleasures, and a lovely section at the back simply explains fractals, basic polygons, solid figures, concentric circles, types of curves, trajectories and sets. And yes, the little girl's name is a homage to the great American mathematician, Katherine Johnson! Deserves to be a classic! Lindy
When Jeffers' baby son was born he wrote Here We Are. Now he has a daughter, and this is his gift to her! In unforced rhyme he plans a future with her, one where they build a house to be a home, and walls and gates, and towers and roads and boats and comfy places to rest, places to stay and store their loveÂ… Illustrated in his trademark style, full of colour and light and sweet touches of humour . A beautiful tribute to a parent's love, and all the possibilities having a daughter brings to their life. Lindy
Age range 0 to 4 The perfect primer of essential STEAM words for your little genius from the #1 Science author, Chris Ferrie! Babies and toddlers are curious and ready to learn!
These are fairytales rewritten and given contemporary relevance (and afterwords), by important and well-regarded authors known for their strong feminist principles and distinctive literary styles. Heavily text-based though presented in a classic children's picturebook format, accompanied by illustrations in a classic silhouette style by Laura Barrett (and in the case of Cinderella Liberator, using Arthur Rackham illustrations). Best for older readers rather than little children, but thoroughly recommended! Lindy
Hattie is struggling with her parent's separation, particularly the rule that says she can't speak with the parent she isn't staying with in their week-about arrangements. There are a lot of rules in Hattie's life, from letting her little sister come first in everything all the time, to school rules ordered by a restrictive principal. When the dilapidated mansion near her old family house is threatened with demolition, Hattie finds the strength within to fight for what she believes in - helped by meeting a sad and lonely young girl who is living in the past.
A lovely story full of emotional reality, with a nicely turned bit of time slippage adding interest. Upper primary readers should enjoy this. Lindy
Set in the Depression in rural America, a family who once lived a comfortable life find themselves eking out a precarious living on Echo Mountain, They are warned not to go to the peak, but as staying fed and warm takes up all their efforts anyway, there's no need.
Narrated by the second child, Ellie, who has taken to the lifestyle change with practicality, curiosity and good grace (unlike her mother and older sister who mourn the loss of their town life) their existence is even more threatened when Ellie's father meets with a terrible accident - one she bears the brunt of, as well as the blame. It means she takes on more responsibility, but even the bravest of us needs supportÂ…
I adore Wolk's novels, which treat readers with calm sophistication about big issues, with their strong female characters on the cusp of teenage learning how to navigate life and change and even when bad things happen, finding the resilience to manage and grow. Lindy
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