Stephanie Owen Reeder

Age range 6+ Stephanie Owen Reeder's Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistence, and resilience by young people. Courageous Kids and their Amazing Adventures binds together the five original, beloved stories with two brand new ones: Brave Bee and the Castaway Kids Will the Wonderkid and the Elusive Treasure Amazing Grace and the Sinking Ship Lennie the Legend...

As the sun sets, Rakali prepares to patrol the riverbank. He is on a mission to fill his belly, protect his pups, and keep his home safe. But he must face feral foxes, disease-carrying black rats, and toxic cane toads. Will he make it safely back to his burrow before the sun rises? Rakali of the Riverbank is an engaging...

Welcome to the charmingly funny and perfectly peculiar world of Aussie animal mums and dads and their awesome kids. Peculiar Parents explores 60 Australian native animals, focusing in particular on all things family, including their courting practices, gestation periods, births and the raising of their young. Discover the weird and wonderful, the cute and cuddly—even the slimy and ugly! You...

Age range 8 to 12 Explore the fascinating world of native Australian animals through the five basic senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. Covering more than 145 truly astounding animals—from sharp-eyed whale sharks to sticky-bellied green tree frogs—Sensational Australian Animals showcases the strange things these creatures can do with their eyes, ears, noses, mouths and skin! Meet birds that...

Age range 6 to 9A captivating story of the remarkable, but critically endangered, swift parrot - one of the fastest parrots in the world!Swifty grows from a hatchling to a fledgling in the blue-gum forests of Tasmania. She is then ready to make a challenging migration, following the blossom trail across Bass Strait to mainland south-eastern Australia.Swifty faces many threats...

Age range 3 to 6 When Mum and Dad are busy working, Ava gets bored. Luckily for her, Ghostie comes to the rescue. There's mischief and mayhem galore as together they explore his ghostly powers and celebrate family, friendship, and imaginative play.

A 2021 CBCA Notable Book: Eve Pownall Award for information books Age range 5+ Did you know that, in 2009, a massive dust storm in Australia blew red dust and sand all the way to New Zealand, where it turned the glaciers pink? That, in 1899, Cyclone Mahina plucked dolphins out of the ocean in Far North Queensland and deposited...