An amazing diversity of fungi is pictured and discussed in this colourful book, Mushrooms Know. The Picture Book format allows for many illustrations followed by descriptions and functions of these plants. The pages have a dark background to allow for the spectacular...
The Children’s hard back picture book, How To Measure The Ocean has delightful illustrations of the ocean and many of the creatures and plants that live in it. There are also maps, charts, and diagrams included. These support the many mathematical concepts which are...
Tarot is an art that goes back through time, further than ever imagined by the lay person or often practitioner, who is familiar with the Tarot of divination, the purported ability for a pack of cards to be able to predict the future via the mystical aspects of the...
The beautiful, coloured photos in Getting to Know Your Neighbourhood Birds make it a splendid way to spend time browsing the pages. However, it is much more than photographs. The author acknowledges a growth of interest in birds due to Covid as people are spending...
The release of The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 is cause for great excitement. In its thirteenth year, the articles have been chosen from Professional Writers, Scientists and Science Communicators. As information increases and “Disciplines deepen,” it is...
THE NEW SCIENCE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ENIGMATIC BIRDS What an Owl Knows could best be described as a work of love from Jennifer Ackerman, dedicated to an enigmatic species of bird that has evolved over millennium’s, but still remains as mysterious and intriguing...
The cartoon like characters on the front cover The Secret Science Society.In Space give exactly the right feel for the story. A group of children have formed a science club at school and they have been encouraged to enter a science competition. The group consists of...
What is impossible about The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions is the ability to put it down. As much as you may wish to share it with a child it is hard not to keep reading yourself to find the answers. Hilarious! The introduction explains that Science is not so...
The iconic Sydney Opera House has been viewed by people all over the world. It is a famous landmark in Australia and is an eye-catching marvel. Although some of us remember the story of how it was built and the dramas of soaring costs, not many people would know the...
This superbly written book, The Road To Gondwana seamlessly covers areas of Science, Ecology and Geography. Bill Morris has a fascination for Gondwana Land and explains the latest scientist research about this super continent. He discusses geology, fossils and plant...
Whatever you do, read this book! Read it, then read it to your friends, then read it to any child nearby. GRUB is a brilliant picture book, and an excellent work in literature. The illustrations and the text meld beautifully to absorb the reader both visually and...
So you think you are weird, well award winning author Camilla Pang has news for you; we are all different in our own special way. We all see and experience the world in a slightly different way, we all have our own strange little behaviours, likes and dislikes and...
