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Child Convicts by Net Brennan
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Our Stories
At the age of seven, children in eighteenth century Britain were tried in court like adults. Some, as young as nine, were transported to the colonies. Their names may not be familiar, but one of these child convicts would become the first person hanged in Australia, another would be celebrated on our tw ...Show more
Eureka Stockade by Marion Littlejohn
$17.98 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Our Stories
On 3 December 1854, well-armed British soldiers and police stormed a crude wooden stockade that had been built by defiant miners fighting for their rights. The battle lasted just twenty minutes but it changed Australia forever. Some say the Eureka Stockade marks the birth of democracy in Australia.
Mary's Australia: How Mary Mackillop Changed Australia (Our Stories) by Pamela Freeman
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Our Stories
Mary MacKillop watched Australia grow from a collection of small colonies into a nation - and she was proud of the country she had a part in creating. How did Australia change in her lifetime? And how much influence did Mary MacKillop have in shaping Australia?
Our Stories: Australian Writers of Influence by Bernadette Kelly
$17.95 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Our Stories
Our knowledge and ideas about the world are shaped by writers - poets, novelists, playwrights and journalists. The 1800s were a time of turbulence and change in the Australian colonies with droughts, strikes, bushrangers and long periods of mass unemployment. The freethinking writers of the time were of ...Show more
Our Stories Great Aussie Inventions by Amy Hunter
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's | Series: Our Stories
What makes Australians such brilliant inventors? Whose idea was the black box flight recorder? Who thought of spray-on skin? The Safe-n-Sound baby capsule? And the Hills Hoist clothes line? Australian inventions. You use them every day.
Our Stories: Protest in Australia by Sue Lawson
$17.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Our Stories
Through protest, Australians have united to fight for change and have influenced the outcome of many causes. From human rights to the environment, this book traces Australia's proud history of protest.
When Granny Came To Stay (Our Stories) by Alice Pung
$12.99 AUD
Category: Children 6 plus | Series: Our Stories
OUR STORIES is a funny, relatable and engaging new early-chapter book series that celebrates Australia's multicultural society with authors and illustrators from a diverse range of backgrounds. Everything changes when Granny comes to stay. She doesn't drive, she cooks strange foods, and she thinks Dest ...Show more
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