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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge 23 reviews
Mem Fox
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1995
Great for the 100th day of school!
I use this book as part of my 100th day of school celebration. It helps my k students to have empathy for the elderly. We also discuss what they may look like when they are 100. Wonderful illustrations - typical Mem Fox style - perfect! Love it!
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The Gift5 reviews
Gabriela Keselman, Laura McKenna
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1999
A gift for big and small
I like this book so very much, with its warm and beautiful message of love. Specially in these hard times. The story and the illustrations are simply wonderful.
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Will You Carry Me?4 reviews
Heleen van Rossum
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2005
Beautifully illustrated, loving story
The colors of this book are fantastic! The drawings are detailed and fun, and young children will delight in finding all the amusing visual jokes on each page. The story is a simple and delightful one, in which a tired mother plays with her tired child to get them both home in a fun and loving way. This is a children's book that everyone can appreciate.
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Slow Loris9 reviews
Alexis Deacon
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2002
Very enjoyable book
We purchased this book to read to our daughter(s) and found it to be an instant success. Sometimes, the book reading requests from the youngsters get a little bit repetitive. This book, however, we were happy to read over and over again. The story is just long enough to engage the mind, but not too long to be tedious at bedtime. The illustrations are great, too. With all the animals of the ...
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Winnie the Witch9 reviews
Korky Paul, Valerie Thomas
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1990
Bright colourful with a lot to look at.
This is, I think very much more for a child from 2-4 than anything else. The language is simple as are the concepts. It is very good humoured and beautifully illustrated. This is a book my 2 and 4 year old love to look at.
There are quite complicated illustrations of Winnies house which is a large castle - it is all in black. The problem is that Winnie's cat is also black, she can see the cat ...
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One Woolly Wombat5 reviews
Rod Trinca
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1985
Modern Australian classic
one woolly wombat sunning by the sea two cuddly koalas sipping gumnut tea and so on to fourteen A now-classic Australian counting book, featuring native animals and other features of the Australian landscape and lifestyle (bush, lamingtons, and some flora) A good choice for a counting book (also going beyond the traditional 10) for Aussie and non-Aussie kids alike.
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Winnie Flies Again4 reviews
Korky Paul
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2000
A Wickedly Funny Story
This book is so hilarious, even as an adult I found myself laughing out loud to Winnie the witch's antics. I plan on reading this book to my kindergarteners around Halloween time. I can't wait to see their reaction!
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Sebastian Lives in a Hat4 reviews
Thelma Catterwell
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1990
A favourite Australian story
"Sebastian lives in a hat. It's a brown woollen hat. Sebastian is a pink fuzzy wombat."
Australian Marsupials are iconic to the Australian image; kangaroos, koalas, possums, wallabies and bandicoots all belong to this special group of animals.
These animals are wild and often roam close to our highways, resulting in a lot of road accidents. Australians are taught from a young age that if ...
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Todos hacemos caca5 reviews
Taro Gomi
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1997
Excelente libro
Es un libro excelente. De lenguaje sencillo, para los niños que están comenzando a leer. Muy gracioso y divertido.
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Nina Bonita: A Story (Children's Books from Around the World)7 reviews
Ana Maria Machado
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1996
Beautiful!
A very sweet story.. beautifully illustrated! As a bilingual mom of a 5 month-old baby, I enjoyed reading this book. Although the title suggest a book in Spanish, it's actually beautifully written in English.
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I Love3 reviews
Brigitte Minne
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2005
Adorable, funny, enjoyable for both children and adults
"I Love..." by Minnie is an adorable 124 page book. Nearly every two page spread features text explaining something that the author loves and the opposite page is a full color painted illustration. The writing is from the perspective of a girl and many of the illustrations picture an adorable little girl who looks to be eight or nine years old.
I first read this book cover to cover, in one ...
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Animal Faces3 reviews
Akira Satoh, Kyoko Toda
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2000
world's most amazing picture book
Animal Faces, a children's book for all ages, opens the reader's eyes to the power of observation. The authors' love of animals is evident and is wonderfully shared with the audience. A book to "see" over and over again
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A Bicycle for Rosaura2 reviews
Daniel Barbot
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1991
Chicken wants a bike
David Barbot's charming tale of Senora Amelia and her family of pets. One year, her chicken asks for a bike for her birthday. Senora Amerlia is added by a stranger in fulfilling the request. Morella Fuenmayor's illustrations are detailed and full of wonder. Originally published in Venezuela as Rosuara En Bicicleta. If you love a chicken on a bike, you might also like a cow on a bike...Marta ...
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The Dog That Dug2 reviews
Jonathan Long, Korky Paul
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1993
The dog that dug
Very silly illustrations of the dog that keeps pulling out even more outrageous things from the ground. There are extra details in Korky Paul's illustrations that keep you looking at the pictures over and over again. Of all Korky Paul's books I think this is my favorite.
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The Park Bench2 reviews
Fumiko Takeshita, Mamoru Suzuki
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1988
Great book!
My daughter and I love this book. The illustrations are gorgeous, and the text charming (I disagree with the reviewer's opinion that the translation is over-literal). One thing I particularly like is that although the illustrations and setting are clearly Japanese, they do not draw on stereotypes or excessively well-known icons of Japan. As a student of Japanese, I enjoy the fact that the ...
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The Sad Story of Veronica Who Played the Violin: Being an Explanation of Why the Streets Are Not Full of ...3 reviews
David McKee
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1991
you'll laugh out loud!
I bought this book because it made me laugh out loud in the shop when I got to the ending. "Mothers are always right!"... Veronica plays violin beautifully, but terribly sadly... in every picture there are tears tears tears. One day Veronica who is now a star decides to get away from it all and go for a trip to the jungle... incredibly enough she plays music for vicious beasts but it is HAPPY ...
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The Deliverance of Dancing Bears (Aspca Henry Bergh Children's Book Awards (Awards))2 reviews
Elizabeth Stanley
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2003
The Deliverance of Dancing Bears
"The Deliverance of Dancing Bears" tells the story ofan unnamed bear that is taken every day by its "owner" to amarket square in a mountain village of eastern Turkey and set to dance on its hind legs for hours. Elizabeth Stanley's prose makes clear to young readers that this is not really dancing. "Around and around the poor bear turned on her two back legs, her head pulled from side to side by ...
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Marc Just Couldn't Sleep2 reviews
Garbiela Keselman
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2004
Beautiful Bedtime Book for All Children
This is a wonderful children's book from Spain. Some people will see the brown skinned boy on the cover and not buy it but it is truly a great book for all kids. It is universal in that it is speaking to the small child afraid of going to sleep alone at night. And who hasn't been at some point in their life?
'Marc had a pink floppy-eared bunny for company but it was not enough to keep fear ...
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The Fish Who Could Wish2 reviews
John Bush, Korky Paul
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1991
Great fun to share!
This is a great story to share and read aloud. The rhyme scheme flows easily, and the illustrations are just as silly as the text. The kids in my storyhour have loved it as well as the adults. Boy, that is one foolish fish!
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My Place3 reviews
Nadia Wheatley, Donna Rawlins
Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1994
One of my favourites
This book came out in 1988 during Australia's bicentennial of the European invasion of Australia. It shares a title with a book by Sally Morgan, an Aboriginal women whose search for her own identity and place was published at the same time. This book can be read in either direction. For younger children, it may be easier to start at then end an move forwards. For older children, part of the ...
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