Collection: Junior Non Fiction

Edmund Kennedy (1818-1848) was an Australian explorer in the early 19th century and is credited with exploring the interior of northern New South Wales, Southern Queensland and Cape York Peninsula. The Australian Electoral Division of Kennedy in northern Queensland is named after him and the Edmu...

Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip through the town's electrical wires so they can learn how electricity is generated and how it is used.

In The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables, there are twenty tales, each told through a series of lush, colorful pictures, which end with the simple moral, evoked in a single sentence. Children will love to see what befalls Aesops cast of creatures that includes dogs, mice, and lions, proving that...

Each vol. has own index. Provides timeline of Australian history from before European settlement to present day and discussions on the Republic. Excellent format, layout for middle-upper primary.

Introduces the concept of ratio by comparing what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals.

Stradbroke Dreamtime is a collection of 27 short stories, ideal for reading in class, from acclaimed Aboriginal author Oodgeroo. The stories are traditional Aboriginal tales from Stradbroke Island, the Tambourine Mountains and from the Old and New dreamtime. A bright, beautiful and unique colour ...

Explores historic and contemporary diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and lifestyles. Alphabetically arranged, themes include art and craft, education, food, health and medicine, history, land, language, missions, reserves, places, sport. Middle primary-lower secondary.

In one of the world's most extreme environments, mankind has developed unique methods of survival. This fact-filled book examines Arctic habitation through the ages. Find out about the amazing ways in which humans have learned to hunt, herd and farm in harmony with nature, using the wildlife arou...

Humour is really important in the development of a child's grasp of language and logic. This book with 400 jokes and riddles and off-the-wall wackiness from the Sterling joke factory will keep six to nine year olds entertained for hours.

This book tells what Tyrannosaurus liked to eat, how baby dinosaurs were born, what dinosaur names mean, how to pronounce dinosaur names, and more.