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The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Children's Fiction
There were only eleven of them, like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family. Because it was such a very small class, they had a very small classroom, which was perched at the very top of the school. Then in the Gardens they meet a poet. What follows is inexplicable, shocking, a scandal. What ...Show more
The Looming Lamplight (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #2) by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
The second in the series featuring the guinea pig detective and his sleuthing cousin Coco Carlomagno, the well-respected (if somewhat easily startled) Chief of Police, has run into an unusually difficult problem. From his office high in the Obelisco, Buenos Aires' tallest building, he can see a light ...Show more
The Magnificent Hercules Quick (Australia Reads Special Edition) by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Children's Fiction
An Australia Reads exclusive story about a boy who does a series of odd jobs for his eccentric neighbours, from the current Australian Children's Laureate and the bestselling creators of The Terrible Plop.
The March of the Ants by Ursula Dubosarsky; Tohby Riddle (Designed by, Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
The ants are heading out on a very important expedition. What will they need to take with them? It's a wild journey! And in the end, it's the littlest ant who leads the others to discover the most important thing of all. A book about a very special book.
The Missing Mongoose (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #3) by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
The third delightfully funny detective story and puzzle book featuring the mystery solving guinea pig duoIt's a national emergency! A rare and extremely valuable mongoose is missing and the legendary Buenos Aires zoo is in chaos. But with rabbits in the Tigers' Taj Mahal and hippos in Panda's Palace, th ...Show more
The Perplexing Pineapple: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Bk 1 by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour o ...Show more
The Quivering Quavers (The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta #5) by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
Perplexing puzzles, mind-boggling mazes and cracking codes feature in this series of stories about a pair of guinea-pig detectives -- Coco Carlomagno, the easily startled Chief of Police, and his more sensible cousin, Alberta.
The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Fiction
The earth smelt strong to Matilda and full of things growing and dying all at the same time. She thought about the grey-green tangled bush at the end of her street, full of cowboys and Red Indians, waiting with their guns and their bows and arrows. She thought about the Japs and the Germans and the shin ...Show more
The Return of the Word Spy by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Word Spy
From the beginning of time, the WORD SPY has been creeping down hallways, hiding in shadows and journeying through different lands to discover everything there is to know about the English language. In her first book, The Word Spy, she shared with us the secrets she'd learnt about English, from the firs ...Show more
The Return of the Word Spy by Ursula Dubosarsky; Tohby Riddle
Category: Non-Fiction
Much more fun to be had with the English language at the hands of this literary duo. Discover hidden and silent languages, the secrets of grammar, dying words, and newborn words...
The Talkative Tombstone: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Bk 6 by Ursula Dubosarsky
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno & Alberta
Coco is the well-respected, if somewhat easily startled, Chief of Police in Buenos Aires. Alberta is his more sensible cousin. Together they crack the cases that confound this puzzling city...In a cemetery in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the tomb of the famous tango singer Anibal Manzana has everyone ...Show more
The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner
Category: Picture Books
Here is the story of the Terrible PLOP, with a bear and a rabbit, and a hop hop hop. But what is the PLOP? And where does it hide? Open the book and look inside ...