The true story of how at the beginning of the 20th century Jessie the elephant walked from Moore Park Zoo to her spacious new home in the Taronga Zoological Park.It was still dark when Mr Miller opened the gates of the old zoo, but he wasn't scared because he wasn't alone. He was with Jessie the elephant and together they were going to walk from Moore Park, through the city streets, to the ferry at Fort Macquarie. Jessie was moving to her spacious new home in the s...

A funny story about gravity that explains why apples fall from trees, from an exciting new partnership in picture books.Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he got hit on the head by an apple.People might tell you this is the moment gravity was first discovered, b**ut the truth is people had been discovering gravity long before Isaac.You might have even discovered it yourself ... Ouch!H...

Guess which of the weird and wonderful exhibits are real and which are fake in this sumptuous collection of extraordinary animals and plants.There's been a mix-up at the Museum - some of the displays from the Myths and Legends exhibit have snuck into the Natural History wing.We have to sort it out, but how can we tell fact from fiction? Animal from apparition? Megafauna from monster?Kids will have fun guessing which animals and plan...

It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate.Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this true story captures the danger, the heartache and the history of the young nurse who would one day become the most decorated woman in Aus...

The amazing true story about a remarkable camel called Tiki from two CBCA award-winning creators, the author of How to Move a Zoo and the illustrator of The Wobbly Bike.Tiki was a desert-born camel and still more than half wild when he met his rider, Jill.Jill was an accomplished horse rider who had never ridden a camel.Tiki and Jill had entered the Great Australian Camel Race a three-month trek from the red centre of Australia all...

What might the world look like in the aftermath of COVID-19?Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.A rapid intervention into current commentary and debate, Life After COVID-19 looks at a wide range of topical issues including the state, co-operation, ...

A picture book about the special relationship between a boy and his grandfather, who stay close even when they are separated by distance.Grandpa, did you know that if you rub a needle with a magnet, one end will point to the north and the other end to the south? In the south there's an apartment building 160 metres tall. From the balcony, you can see the entire city. There are cinemas and ice cream shops ... and me!As Henry measures the distance be...

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #2: January 2019Featuring Ideas by:Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles

A hunter invades a blossoming grove and becomes obsessed with its beautiful spirit.In a world forever waiting for spring, two women with no pasts or memories find each other.A shapeshifting hare seeks her missing brother among the bluebells.The god of the underworld mourns the loss of his beloved wife, the goddess of spring.Once upon a time stories travelled from place to place on the tongues of merchants and thieves and kings alike. Winter would thaw,...

After the fires are out, the smoke has cleared, the divorce is over, the widow has stopped wearing black, the sun has risen, the monsters are dead, the world is saved (or destroyed!), the storm has calmed, and the trouble is over……what do you do next?Find out in the first anthology of work by the Pikes Peak Writers. From mystery to romance and science fiction—from heartfelt essays to poetry that moves the soul.We can’t promise only happy endings. Just that moment wh...

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

Healing the Hidden Hurts*: Transforming Attachment and Trauma Theory into Effective Practice with Families, Children and Adults* provides a unique collection of professional and personal responses to the challenges that arise in dealing with attachment difficulties.With contributions from social workers, adoptive parents, adoptees, psychologists, therapists, counsellors and other related professionals, this book provides a varied and expansive approach to explaining attach...