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One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth by Nicola Davies
$17.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Nicola Davies and Jenni Desmond's first collaboration: a spectacular tour of Planet Earth and a powerful rallying cry. Where on Earth are you, right now? It’s late where I am and almost everyone’s asleep, but I’m awake, looking out into the night. Wondering… As the clock strikes midnight, a little gir ...Show more
One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth by Nicola Davies
$27.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Where on Earth are you, right now? It’s late where I am and almost everyone’s asleep, but I’m awake, looking out into the night. Wondering… As the clock starts striking midnight, a little girl and her sister visit animals of every shape and size, all around the world – discovering that, in some time-zon ...Show more
Protecting the Planet: Emperor of the Ice by Nicola Davies
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
It’s April in Antarctica and, in places so remote that they can only be seen by satellites, lines of Emperor Penguins appear in search of the perfect ice for raising their chicks. A wise old Empress has returned to the ice at Halley Bay year after year; with the help of her mate, she works to protect he ...Show more
Ride the Wind by Nicola Davies; Salvatore Rubbino
$27.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A beautiful, heartfelt story from the author of King of the Sky and The Promise. Javier has a secret. On one of his father's fishing-trips, he finds an albatross caught on the hooks; alive, if only barely. Against his father's orders, Javier smuggles the bird to safety and begins nursing it back to hea ...Show more
The Day War Came (HB) by Nicola Davies
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee. The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, a ...Show more
The Leopard's Tail by Nicola Davies
$11.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
The sixth title in Nicola Davies' Heroes of the Wild series is a mountain adventure based on a real conservation project to protect Caucasian leopards. Malik loves exploring the mountains near his village in Armenia, and he's never forgotten the leopard he once saw as a very young boy. But the night he ...Show more
The Lion Who Stole My Arm by Nicola Davies
$11.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction
A child, a wild animal - and a life-changing encounter. This is an exciting new range of books in which children find solutions to problems through conservation rather than killing. On his way home from a fishing trip Pedru is attacked by a lion who takes his arm. As Pedru gradually adapts to his altere ...Show more
The Magic of Flight by Nicola Davies
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Our skies are full of life! From bats and birds to bees and beetles, the air around us is buzzing with amazing flying creatures.Explore how and why animals fly, and the many ways in which this incredible ability has helped them flourish on our beautiful planet, in this beautiful book from award-winning ...Show more
The Promise by Nicola Davies
$17.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books
This is a picture book of great beauty and hope about the power we have to transform our world. On a mean street in a mean city, a thief tries to snatch an old woman's bag. But she finds she can't have it without promising something in return - to "plant them all". When it turns out the bag is full of a ...Show more
The Variety of Life by Nicola Davies
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Did you know there are 400,000 species of beetle, but only eight species of bear? This stunning book explores the extraordinary variety of the natural world.Our planet is full of life, from the mountaintops to the ocean's depths. This appealing nonfiction compendium pays tribute to that biodiversity wit ...Show more
The Whale Who Saved Us by Nicola Davies
$11.95 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Heroes of the Wild | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Suki and her brother Levi have grown up in the far north of Canada, in a town with few prospects for young people. When Levi tries to commit suicide, Suki's mother bundles Suki on to a plane bound for Whale Bay, a small village further up the coast, where her great grandmother and uncle are waiting for ...Show more
The Wonder of Trees by Nicola Davies
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Did you know that there are over 60,000 tree species? This stunning book explores the extraordinary diversity of trees and forests - the lungs of our earth. A glorious celebration of trees by non-fiction specialist Nicola Davies, illustrated by rising star Lorna Scobie, creators of the beautiful The Va ...Show more