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Australia’s Extreme Weather (Picture Books)
Australian Constitution
The current Constitution of Australia (or Australian Constitution) is a written constitution that is supreme law in Australia. It establishes Australia as a federation under a constitutional monarchy and outlines the structure and powers of the Australian government's three constituent parts, the executive, legislature, and judiciary.
Favourite Picture Books
The Tea and Sugar train came once a week to the settlements along the Nullabor of Australia's southern outback... but the Christmas train came only once a year!
Wombats are cuddly-looking, slow-moving Australian animals. Their favorite activities are eating, sleeping, and digging holes. Here, in the words of one unusually articulate wombat, is the tongue-in-cheek account of a busy week; eating, sleeping, digging holes . . . and training its new neighbors, a family of humans, to produce treats on demand. Based on French's personal at-home experiences. Gorgeous!
Gift this classic iconic picture book to those you love. Join Grace and her family as they hit the road camping, experiencing, and meeting all the people and places that make up Australia.
30th Anniversary Edition
Imagine a beach where you can swim, surf, splash through the waves, make sandcastles, hunt for treasure, explore rock-pools, muck about in boats, fish from the jetty, and build a bonfire under the stars. Come to Magic Beach, where adventure begins...
Missionary Biographies
Christian Heroes : Then & Now - Janet & Geoff Benge
Age 10+
While studying to be a minister, John Flynn longed to apply his training to help people in practical ways. Soon he discovered that his mission field was inside his own country—the vast and dangerous outback, or Never Never, where life-and-death struggles were a constant reality.A man bursting with ideas and energy, John strove endlessly to support isolated bushmen through innovations in radio and flight. Serving as superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission and moderator general of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, he established desperately needed medical facilities and helped found the Flying Doctor Service. This national hero’s lifelong efforts continue to touch lives across Australia (1880-1951).
Christian Heroes: Then and Now - Age 10+
Once timid and unsure of her own salvation, New Zealander Florence Young rose to her calling and became a fearless and faithful witness for Jesus Christ. Eventually serving in the remote Solomon Islands and, for a season, in China during the deadly Boxer Rebellion, Florence began her service close to home.
Working on her family's Australian plantation, this one woman's mission soon expanded to their home islands, the Solomon Islanders or Kanakas. There, as Florence and others helped Kanaka believers reach out to villages steeped in cannibalism and revenge killings, thousands of people were transformed by the love of God (1856-1940).
Christian Heroes: Then and Now - Age 10+
David Bussau grew up in New Zealand boys' homes where expectations of the young men were grim. David shattered those expectations, emerging as an enterprising teenager running a rented hot dog stand. Numerous business ownerships and financial success followed, and with that success, a vision to provide natural disaster relief and aid to the poor in Australia, Indonesia, India, and beyond.
Today David's work continues through Opportunity International, a worldwide aid organization that offers small business loans to help the poor start and grow their own businesses.
Historical Fiction
Jackie French: Age 8+
At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. As one of the members of the First Fleet, he arrives in a country that seemingly has little to offer - or little that the English are used to, anyway.
Nature Study
Nature Study Australia has created Nature Study Guides for the Aussie homeschool family seeking to explore the outdoors and discover the secret worlds of Australian fauna and flora while making connections to the natural world and encouraging a sense of wonder and play.
Australia’s Extreme Weather
By Jackie French & Danny Snell
Based on events witnessed by Australian Children's Laureate Jackie French during the 2020 fires and co-created with award-winning illustrator Danny Snell, this is a story of courage, compassion and survival, which saw people across Australia come together to save our wildlife from devastation.
By Jackie French & Bruce Whatley
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire and Cyclone comes Drought – a moving story about the devastating effects drought has on many Australians and their farms.
By Jackie French & Bruce Whatley
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone, Plague and Drought.