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HOT DOG! #3 CIRCUS TIME! BY ANH DO 5+yrs, p/b, $12.99 Lizzie’s joining the circus! Her sister Emma is a high-flying trapeze star, but Lizzie’s TERRIFIED of heights! She’s going to be a clown–the funniest around! Hotdog and Kev can’t wait to see the show. Hopefully everything goes to plan!
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THE LITTLE STOWAWAY BY VICKI BENNETT 4+yrs, h/b, $24.99 France. Winter. 1918. The First World War is over. A brave and determined little French orphan, Honore, wanders through the snow, cold and hungry and lost. When he stumbles on the Australian Flying Corps and meets airman, Tim Tovell, his life is changed forever.
SOMEWHERE IN THE REEF BY MARCELLO PENNACCHIO 3+yrs, h/b $24.99 Join the little dolphin calf and many more familiar ocean animals in this vivid counting book based on the classic rhyme Over in the Meadow.
KOOKABURRAS LOVE TO LAUGH BY LAURA BUNTING 4+yrs, h/b, $16.99 Kookaburras love to laugh. They laugh when it is sunny, or rainy, or windy. They laugh for no reason at all. When one serious kookaburra decides to flee the jokers, and goes to find a more suitable flock, he finds that perhaps he might just be in the right place after all.
HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES ILLUSTRATED BY MATT SHANKS, 1+yrs, h/b, $14.99 Head and shoulders, knees and toes...and tails and scales, paws and claws! Come and get fit with the Aussie animals as they dance, run, jump and clap hands together! But look out... you never know who else might drop in on the fun too!
TRACY LACY FOR CLASSY CAPTAIN BY TANIA LACY 10+yrs, p/b $14.99 ‘Remember how I was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN, well pretty sure, probably about 99.7% sure, that I maybe, nearly, might actually get through High School like a normal person? Well SHOCK, HORROR, it’s not going exactly as I planned . . . It’s BETTER!'
TOM GATES #13: EPIC ADVENTURE (KIND OF) BY LIZ PICHON 7+yrs, p/b, $16.99 Having two sets of grandparents is turning out to be very good for me. The Wrinklies are keen on giving presents AND they're planning a family outing which is going to be EPIC! Even Delia wants to come. (I can always ignore her.)
DOG MAN AND CAT KID BY DAV PILKEY 7+yrs, p/b, $15.99 The heroic hound with a real nose for justice now has a sidekick in the form of a super-cute kitten, and together they have a mysterious caper to sniff out!
MIGHTY MITCH #2 HOWZAT HEROES! BY MITCHELL STARC 7+yrs, p/b, $12.99 Mitch Starc and his cricket team suddenly find themselves in the spotlight on the TV show HOWZAT HEROES! (And it’s not pretty!) The Wander Hill Wombats finally managed to get runs on the board and win some matches. But they’ve just had the most disastrous training session. Ever! So what’s Mitch’s problem now?
Peninsula 2017/18 Peninsula Kids Kids – – Summer Winter 2018