Book Week Fun
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Early Childhood Category
Go Home Cheeky Animals
by Joanna Bell
At Canteen Creek there are cheeky dogs everywhere but when the cheeky goats, donkeys, buffaloes and camels make mischief in the camp, the dogs just lie there, until those pesky animals really go too far.
Gary
by Leila Rudge
Gary the pigeon can’t fly. When his racing pigeon friends head off in their travel basket, Gary stays at home. He organises his scrapbook of travel mementos and dreams about the adventures the other pigeons are having. When Gary accidentally ends up a very long way from home, he discovers that flying is not the only way to have adventures.
Nannie Loves
by Kylie Dunstan
Nannie lives on a farm with rolling hills, a muddy creek. She has a bouncy dog, woolly sheep, brown cows, hungry chooks and a garden full of trees, flowers and vegetables. Nannie loves her farm but what Nannie loves most is when her family comes to stay.
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All I Want for Christmas is Rain
by Cori Brooke
An Australian Christmas is threatened when drought takes hold. A little girl, living on a farm, has only one wish for rain. She had a plan! Will her wish come true?
Chip
by Kylie Howarth
Chip, like most other gulls, is wild about chips. He likes fat chips, skinny chips, sandy or crunchy or soggy chips. Most of all, he loves Joe’s chips from Joe’s Chip Van beside the sea. Chip, like most other gulls, can be a little intrusive on his search for chips. So, one day, Joe erects a sign near his van warning people not to feed the seagulls. Chip is devastated, so he plans a way to get back into Joe’s good books.
The Snow Wombat
by Susannah Chambers
It’s a big journey through the snow for a little wombat, meeting animals, birds and people along the way…but there’s no place like home!