MRS NOAH'S VEGETABLE ARK :: saving the world from vitamin deficiencies!

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MRS NOAH'S VEGETABLE ARK :: saving the world from vitamin deficiencies!

Age guide: 3 to 10

Mrs Noah watches Noah building an ark in the middle of a drought and does what many a wife has done – smiled indulgently, sniggered a bit about her husband’s eccentricities and continued on her merry way. 

But when Noah starts collecting giraffes, Mrs Noah starts thinking and decides that just in case Noah is right she might as well start collecting fruit and vegetable seed and cuttings. 

And then she really gets on board!  

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A Nice Walk In The Jungle: vindication for every child who has been ignored!

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A Nice Walk In The Jungle: vindication for every child who has been ignored!

Age guide: 2 to 8 years & grown-up
With the friendliest looking boa constrictor ever greedily gobbling children on a nature walk with their teacher (it’s pink and green instead of the usual yellow and green or brown) – this is a joyful and funny book. It’s especially funny if you could possibly be one of the people the book is inscribed to: ‘all absent-minded parents and enthusiastic teachers’. 

Which I imagine covers most adults at one time or another.

This is the story of a school nature walk gone horribly wrong, then most satisfyingly redeemed. 

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a happy, celebratory book, quintessentially Australian

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a happy, celebratory book, quintessentially Australian

great for all ages, baby to grown-up (it's a singalong)
I grew up singing the song that provides the words for this book—if you’re Australian you probably did too. My cousin Lauren would sit in a rocking chair on the verandah of her home on a cattle property in Central Queensland and look out over the paddock singing it. She was 3 at the time

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Make Way For Ducklings: Caldecott Medal winners tend to hold their appeal!

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Make Way For Ducklings: Caldecott Medal winners tend to hold their appeal!

Make Way for Ducklings is the story of Mr. & Mrs. Mallard and their quest to find a place to nest and then to raise their family of ducklings. It has cult status in Boston, where the duck statues in the public gardens never need polishing because children sit on them so often they naturally keep up the sheen!

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