What does a black hole eat for supper? Why does toast always land butter-side down? And can a wombat really do square poo?Silly Rhymes for Smart Kids is a treasury of 101 read-aloud poems for curious children and the grown-ups who read to them. Here you'll meet Mister Goff, who sneezes his roof off; a dragon stuck in the dustbin; Algernon Atom, who has lost an electron and is feeling very positive about it; Barry the Black Hole, who gobbles comets like spaghetti; and Great-Uncle Si...

Alice is sure there must be magic somewhere in the Ash Grove. As evening settles over the forest, she sets out to find it.At first, the familiar woodland offers only ordinary wonders: a rabbit vanishing into the ferns, a Tawny Frogmouth blinking among the branches, moonlight touching the trees. Beautiful, perhaps-but not the magic Alice imagined.Then the last golden light fades. Beside a mossy log, Alice sees a tiny glow shining in the dark. It looks like a fallen star rest...

In Grandma's herb garden, Alice notices a flash of green and gold beneath a stem. It is a chrysalis, and inside it a butterfly is slowly becoming. Alice is enchanted. She sits beside it, waits, checks again and asks whether it might hurry, just a little.But becoming cannot be rushed.As wind gathers and rain approaches, Alice longs to keep the chrysalis safe. With Grandma patiently close by, she watches for each tiny change: a dark line, a tremble, the first careful movement...

A lyrical nature picture book with a soft moral center. A wisdom book for bright young minds. The forest magic is atmospheric and character-led, so the hook is emotional rather than plot-heavy: a child learns to listen with her heart and acts kindly when she hears distress. It is a- Read-aloud bedtime picture book.- Nature-and-kindness story for home and classroom.- Gentle emotional literacy title.- Forest or woodland themed gift bookIn the quiet of ...

Sixty-one years, three brass plaques, and a locked biscuit tin nobody has ever seen opened — that's the Bay Fryer's whole reputation, gone from a cool room that was locked the entire time. No broken window. No forced door. Just a tin-shaped nothing on a shelf, and a landlord's lease letter sitting on the spike like a clock starting.The Safety Bay Six follow the only clues going: a salt-dried footprint two sizes too small for any grown suspect, a sleeve of stolen drone footage, and ...

When the prestigious Italian Bellini Foundation arrives at the Swan River Festival of Voices with a previously unknown Vivaldi manuscript, Dr Alex Moreton notices three things before the opening reception is half over.The provenance chain leads from a Swiss estate sale, through a Zurich auction house, through eighteen months of preliminary authentication in Rome, and arrives in Perth wearing the imprimatur of the Bellini FoundationBy the following morning, the manuscript wa...

High-reliability management is a set of practices and competencies that help Organisations operating in high-hazard environments maintain a low risk of accidents. These Organisations recognise the inherent risks associated with their operations and actively work to minimise them, even in complex and challenging circumstances.Clear and understandable core management competencies are needed to prevent 'preventable' accidents.Dr Maher's research provides valuable insights into...

It is a Tuesday evening in the university choir. Lachie Drummond is twenty-two years old, a final-year computer science student, and he sings second tenor with an instinctive sense of line that the conductor acknowledges by directing the rest of the section to listen to him. He is also two moves ahead of everyone in every room he enters. He has been working on a thesis about seams — the invisible joins in institutional data architecture, the places where different systems meet.At e...

On a January morning in Perth, a woman is recovered from the Swan River. She was the university's chief archivist — precise, stubborn, entirely without sentiment about what an archive was for. She knew where every document was.There is a note at her house. A single page. Handwritten.It says: I cannot undo what was done.It doesn't say what was done or what gets buried, and what survives the burying, and what it costs the people who decide that something buri...

Book Three of The Magician's Granddaughter series is set in Perth, Western Australia. Book three is the trilogy closer for the discovery arc established in Books One and Two. Book One established the gift of witnessing, the circle, the Collectors as antagonists, and the first Perth operation. Book Two destroyed the Edinburgh Ledger and corrected the Dublin founding document. Book Three discovers the full shape of the Collector network, destroys the Perth node, and maps the remaining instal...

The car alone should have been a warning. Long, low, the colour of wet slate, parked across two bays like the lines were somebody else's problem — and out of it steps a man who looks at the Safety Bay foreshore the way you'd look at a fish you're about to fillet.When a developer's marquee goes up over the lagoon every kid in Safety Bay has known their whole lives, Barry, Rose, Annie, Kath and Vic know exactly what's coming. What they don't have is proof — so they get some, at dawn,...

Six weeks since the skyrocket. Six weeks since Imogen Whitfield turned sixteen and her grandfather's gift became hers — and then kept becoming more than she'd bargained for. Immie can read objects now. Touch a button from someone's coat and receive their whole worried life. Hold an old iron key and find herself in a lamplit room in Edinburgh, watching a man write in an enormous leather-bound ledger with the certainty of someone who has been doing this for a very long time. The Collectors h...