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Castles by Allan Baillie
Category: Picture Books
A little girl builds a sandcastle. But then a pirate comes along and builds a menacing pirate ship, with cannons and a pirate flag, right alongside the castle - and the castle falls ...
DragonQuest by Allan Baillie; Wayne Harris (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
A mission to find the last dragon winds through a perilous landscape, but the knight sees no trace of the creature. Can the eagle-eyed reader spot it? A noble Dragon Fighter sets out on an expedition to fight the last dragon, inviting the reader along for the journey. Through shifting sands and tang ...Show more
Krakatoa Lighthouse by Allan Baillie
Category: Young Adult
The world's deadly volcano is about to explode. A long time ago it devastated every civilization in the world, include the Roman Empire. Now it will create the loudest sound ever recorded, sending air waves seven times around the world. And it will create tsunamis of a height of forty metres. There ...Show more
Little Brother by Allan Baillie
Category: Children's Fiction
The shots were so close they seemed to explode inside Vithy's head. He threw himself to the ground and clapped his hands over his ears . . . It's Cambodia. The killing machine that is the Khmer Rouge is in power. Vithy has lost everyone and everything he loved – except his older brother, Mang. They've ...Show more
Riding with Thunderbolt : The diary of Ben Cross, Northern New South Wales 1865 by Allan Baillie
Category: Children's Fiction
Ben Cross runs away from home and ends up being looked after by Fred Ward (the bushranger known as Captain Thunderbolt) and his wife Mary-Anne, who are living on the run. Ben becomes one of Ward's apprentices and gets into some strife, before discovering that his presumed-dead aunt is still alive and wi ...Show more
Stories of Water by Margaret Hamilton (Compiled by); Allan Baillie; Brian Caswell; Louise Elliot; Susanne Gervay; Libby Glesson; John Heffernan; Glenda Millard
Category: Audio
Many Australian children either grow up near the sea, or have holidays by the sea, or pools, rivers or dams. This collection of stories highlights the influence of water on the lives of Australian children. From Libby Gleeson's exciting storyRain which deals with the effects of flood on a small rural co ...Show more
The China Coin by Allan Baillie
Category: Children's Fiction
Following the discovery of a fragment of coin, Leah and her mother set out on a quest to find their ancestral village in China. The author also wrote "Eagle Island", "Hero" and "Megan's Star".
The First Voyage by Allan Baillie
Category: Children's Fiction
An adventure story set in our very distant past, 30,000 years ago, when the first tribes from Timor braved the ocean on primitive rafts to travel into the unknown, and reached the land mass of what is now Australia.
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