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Aussie STEM Stars: Georgia Ward-Fear: Reptile biologist and explorer by Claire Saxby
Category: Education | Series: Aussie Stem Stars Ser.
Age range 9 to 14Georgia Ward-Fear is most famous for her research into shifting ecological paradigms and animal behaviour. She is also an adventurer, travelling extensively in her sea kayak. Georgia Ward-Fear's conservation journey has seen her travel the world, empower young girls to become environmen ...Show more
Big Red Kangaroo by Claire Saxby
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks
Follow a dominant male kangaroo as he leads his mob in search of food--and holds his own against other males who vie for his role. In the center of Australia, the sun is setting over the baked earth, and Red Kangaroo stirs from his rest. It's breakfast time, and Red must lead his mob of kangaroos of ...Show more
Big Red Kangaroo (Nature Storybooks) by Claire Saxby; Graham Byrne (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: The\Nature Storybook Ser.
Follow a dominant male kangaroo as he leads his mob in search of food--and holds his own against other males who vie for his role. In the center of Australia, the sun is setting over the baked earth, and Red Kangaroo stirs from his rest. It's breakfast time, and Red must lead his mob of kangaroos of ...Show more
Bird to Bird by Claire Saxby Claire; Wayne Harris Wayne
Category: Picture Books
Award-winning picture book creators Claire Saxby and Wayne Harris team up to bring us a gentle story of nature, history, recycling and art. A bird drops a seed to the floor of the forest. The seed grows into a sapling, then a tree. The tree is felled and taken to a busy city. Bird to Bird is the story o ...Show more
Carrum Sailing Club (HB) by CLAIRE SAXBY
Category: Picture Books
Sometimes it's not the destination that counts, but the journey. Join the family on their walk along the beach to Carrum Sailing Club. AUTHOR: Claire Saxby now lives in Melbourne but spent much of her first 20 years moving throughout Australia and PNG. The places she's lived and visited appear often in ...Show more
Christmas at Grandad's Farm by Claire Saxby
Category: Picture Books
The sun is shining, the barbecue is fired up and the family is all together -- it must be Christmas time at Grandad's Farm! Join in all the fun of a typical hot Aussie summer with gorgeous illustrations by Janine Dawson and fun rhyming text from popular author Claire Saxby.
Christmas at Grandma's Beach House by Claire Saxby
Category: Picture Books
It's Christmas in Australia, and what better way to celebrate than to gather at Grandma's beach house! It's the Twelve Days of Christmas, Aussie style.'On the fourth day of Christmas, we went down to the sea,Four beaming aunts, Three best friendsTwo Uncle Bob'sAnd my Grandma, my family and me...' The pe ...Show more
Christmas at Home by Saxby Claire
Category: Picture Books
This year, Christmas is being celebrated at home. The decorations are made, there are gifts galore, a feast is cooked, table crackers are pulled and family and friends are ready for a traditional Christmas lunch under the trees. Join the family from Christmas at Grandad's Farm and Christmas at Grandma's ...Show more
Dingo by Claire Saxby
Category: Nature | Series: Nature Storybooks
The night is young and there is hunting to be done. An exciting new addition to the narrative non-fiction series Nature Storybooks, about dingoes. Can you see her? There - deep in the stretching shadows - a dingo. Her pointed ears twitch. Her tawny eyes flash in the low-slung sun. Dingo listens. Dusk is ...Show more
Dingo (HB) by Claire Saxby
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks Ser.
Poetic language and glorious illustrations follow a dingo from the comfort of her pack into the darkening landscape in search of food for her family. Can you see her? There -- deep in the stretching shadows -- a dingo. Her pointed ears twitch. Her tawny eyes flash in the low-slung sun. Dingo le ...Show more
Emu by Claire Saxby
Category: Picture Books | Series: Nature Storybooks
Did you know it's the emu father who protects the chicks? Follow a doting dad as he keeps his brood safe--from when they're granite-green eggs until they're all grown up. In the open eucalyptus forest of Australia, an emu as tall as a human settles down on his nest to warm and protect the eggs left by ...Show more
Great White Shark by Claire Saxby
Category: Education | Series: Nature Storybooks Ser.
Follow a female shark as she heads to warm waters for the sake of her young in a lyrical, fact-filled look at one of the ocean's top predators.The great white shark swims on. Her tail sways from side to side; her fins keep her balanced. She travels the fast lane where she can, cruising invisible seaways ...Show more