The True Adventures of Beau and Ted

Here are a few doggy tales about Beau and Ted. These tales are all true.

Beau and Ted are great mates. Teddy is a real character; he’s a golden Labradoodle who thinks he’s human, and Beau is a beautiful chocolate Labrador who thinks only about nicking food and sneaking out.

If you have your own Beau and Ted, or even if you don't, you’ll love the adventures of this cute, but sometimes troublesome, duo.

The Truth Tie and Other Stories

Barbara Steel-Knowles presents three fun-filled children's tales with captivating illustrations by Simon Knowles.

In The Truth Tie, eight years old Henry tells lots of lies. When some elves see his behaviour, they decide to teach him a lesson!

Four Pairs of Shoes for Ollie follows a group of sea creatures as they swim to the surface and spot some humans. Ollie, the octopus, decides he wants to wear shoes too, but how will he find four pairs?

Finally, in The Glass Slippers, Ellie puts on some magical shoes and finds she can't stop tapping her feet! Follow her on a unique, magical adventure!

The Unsung Hero

When the rest of the world was closing, lots of people were scared. Mums and dads worked from their homes, and children began remote learning too.

But what about the little boys and girls, who weren’t yet ready for school, where did they go? What did they do?

There are lots of special places filled with lots of special people too, that remained open for all the boys and girls who are too little and not yet ready for school. These special places and the unsung heroes that work there kept their rooms filled with lots of fun things to do and worked tirelessly supporting the children and their local communities too.

But just like all the front-line heroes, they also kept our families healthy, our environments clean too, and kept food on the tables, with lots of learning too.

But who are these unsung heroes? This book explores how and why teachers go above and beyond for their boys and girls, every day.

The V.I.P Who Came to My School

The author wrote this story for her five-year-old son. It describes the excitement that children experience when anything new happens or they have someone important visiting their school. The visitor might be a person or a something that was living in the school garden all this time without them knowing.

The Wheels on the Bus

This wacky animal alphabet story is best sung to the well-known tune…The Wheels on the Bus.

The bus is empty, so will the cat, the dog, the elephant, the frog, the goat, the horse, the ibis, the jelly fish and the koala catch up before nightfall?

When will this animal alphabet nonsense finish? Sing along to discover…

…where all small children must drift as the sun goes down.

The Wild Ones

The stars of this book live all around you. You may not have noticed that cockatoo in your clothesline and realised he has a brilliant military mind. He may be plotting right now how to steal your lunch. And that cute, cuddly-looking possum – he would rather bite your hand than enjoy a tasty treat from you. Watch out! You may not have realised that those magpies in your garden are telling their kids all about you and your family. They know who is good for a feed and who is a dangerous baby magpie killer. Or at least they think they do. They have probably trained your dog and frightened your cat. There are so many characters out there living wild and uncivilised lives, having romances and adventures, teaching their young and protecting them, hiding from you or maybe even trying to make friends with you. Open up this book for a little inside view into their world.

Theo’s Ocean Discovery

Theo, an explorer and treasure collector, discovers that his treasure is not quite what it seems. He learns a valuable lesson and understands how the disposal of plastic in the ocean can be devastating.

The Little Book of 101 Wise Words for Children

“A child is not a child if she does not know the meaning of fun.”

“When the child knows how to have fun, it cushions him to the ups and downs of life.”

Dear Child,

From the moment you were born, no matter where you came from, you have alongside within you a power waiting to be unleashed. The world is your playground and like the rainbows that you see behind the clouds, you can apply as many colours as you wish to make your own life colourful.

You are loved and every small step that you make counts. Once you dream, you should not be afraid to make that first step. Whether or not someone believes in you, but your dream is true to you, then do not be shy and give it a try. For every huge success started from that first, small step.

It is for you that I wrote this book to have fun and be free to pursue your dreams and to live life happily!

Lindzy McQueen

This, That, These and Those

A clutch of silly colourful creatures doing silly wonderful things.

Immerse yourself and your little ones in this joyful array of beautiful illustrations that make the nonsense prose believable. A unique learning tool for early readers to help enhance their imagination and sense of fun whilst gaining the understanding of distance, colour, singular and plural.

Tick Tock

Tick tock, tick tock, what's the time on the clock? Follow Charlie through his day and peek into the lives and dreams of the people around him - Tim, with his big green garbage truck, Lorna, walking her spotty pup, Charlotte, dancing through the flowers in her yard… Through gentle rhyme and endearing characters, Tick Tock gives children a sense of their place in a big, busy world.

Tradie Tom and the little Yellow Dinghy

Tom has lived by the seaside all his life and has a good bunch of mates who, from an early age, have loved to catch up, have a yarn (chat) and go for a surf on the waves.

Now they are all grown up and Tom has become the local handyman in the town of Sandy Shore where he is affectionately known as ‘Tradie Tom’. His best friend Barney is the town gardener and they can usually be seen working together whilst getting the young ones of the town out of the scrapes they themselves used to get into.

Their surfboards are always strapped to the back of their utes as “you never know when the surf will be up” is their motto.

These stories are about mateship. These two surfing mates by knowing each other for so long can work together, have trust and loyalty in each other, which in turn helps others when needed.

Tradie Tom and the Missing Lunchbox

Tom has lived by the seaside all his life and has a good bunch of mates who, from an early age, have loved to catch up, have a chat and go for a surf on the waves.

Now they are all grown up and Tom has become the local handyman in the town of Sandy Shore, where he is affectionately known as ‘Tradie Tom’. His best friend, Barney, is the town gardener and they can usually be seen working together whilst getting the young ones of the town out of the scrapes they themselves used to get into.

Their surfboards are always strapped to the back of their trucks as their motto is ‘You never know when the surf will be up’.

These stories are about mateship. By knowing each other for so long these two surfing mates can work together, have trust and loyalty in each other which in turn helps others when needed.