David Walker

How Do Bunnies Take Baths? is the perfect book to read before bathtime—a new Little Golden Book about the different ways animals keep themselves clean. Tigers love to soak in a cold lake or stream. Macaques relax in hot water steam! Beavers comb their fur to remove what's cruddy. Rhinos roll around in a bath that's muddy! This delightful rhyming...

Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier, or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour came to power? If we are, how much do we have to thank Blair and Brown and their cabinets for? In The Verdict, Polly Toynbee and David Walker strip away spin, personality, and political rhetoric to judge how our...

The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. In this urgent polemic, Polly Toynbee and David Walker present a worrying portrait of Britain today. Their gripping investigation takes them to the editor of UK magazine, Tatler, who bemoans paying private school fees on a middle-class salary and to young city lawyers who justify earning 100 times more...

A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendship. In the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family had no choice but to leave Shanxi province. Heading north, they began a new life, farming the remote grasslands of Inner Mongolia. They prospered as landowners and teachers, but could...

David Walker is a distinguished Australian social historian whose eyesight deteriorated suddenly at the end of 2004 as a result of macular degeneration. His blindness caused him to reconsider his own relation to the past, and the history of his family, which had made no attempt to record it. The result was the writing of this memoir, which traces his...

From the illustrator of Bob Dylan’s If Not for You comes a wildly cute, encouraging picture book about a lovable lion who learns to be brave and that you’re never too small to make a difference.Lions are BIG and they’re BRAVE, we all know that. But not Little Lion: he’s a fraidy-cat! He’s afraid of his shadow and noises at...