Joshua Button

Age range: 3 to 8 This delightful book for early childhood will enthrall young children and their older readers. The vibrant illustrations are accompanied by a soft lyrical text, and together they introduce some of the diverse native and exotic animals to be found in Australian zoos. The doleful lion, the pacing jaguar, the trumpeting elephant, and the cheeky cassowary...

As a young boy growing up in Broome, Joshua Button spent many weekends fishing and crabbing in the mangroves of Roebuck Bay with his family. Set in Crab Creek, Joshua takes us on a crabbing trip, vividly capturing the atmosphere and energy of the place he is so familiar with, as he chases two crabs through the mangroves, up trees,...

Age range 3 to 6 Steve is a gorilla who lives at a zoo in Rio. In the evenings, he listens to jazz on the radio with his friend, Antonio the zookeeper. One night, Steve is feeling a little lonely and so he lifts the latch of his cage door and goes off to search for Antonio. At the tram...