Australian Flower Fairies Address Book Generations of children have loved Cicely Mary Barker's English Flower Fairy Books - here now are their Australian cousins. Twenty-six exquisitely detailed illustrations by well-known artist Elizabeth Alger adorn this brightly coloured book, featuring the Lilly-Pilly Fairies, the Wattle Fairies, the Gum Tree Fairies and more. Each picture is accompanied by a verse, written by nature-inspired gardener, artist and poet Margaret Thornton. Her three daughters also contributed poems. The book contains pages for recording the contact details of friends and family. It is the companion volume to the Australian Flower Fairies Birthday Book, the Notebook and the Diary.

Whitefoot the Woodmouse had been running and jumping all around the inside of the little sugar-house. He loves to run and jump, and he had been having just the best time ever. Finally Whitefoot ran along the old bench and jumped from the end of it for a box standing on end, which Farmer Brown's boy sometimes used to sit on. It wasn't a very long jump, but somehow Whitefoot misjudged it. He was heedless, and he didn't jump quite far enough. Right beside that box was a tin pail half filled with sap. Instead of landing on the box, Whitefoot landed with a splash in that pail of sap!

Whitefoot had been in many tight places. Yes, indeed, Whitefoot had been in many tight places. He had had narrow escapes of all kinds. But never had he felt so utterly hopeless as now. The moment he landed in that sap, Whitefoot began to swim frantically. The more he tried to climb out, the more frightened he became!

Brigg lives in a small, grey room in a large, grey city. When he finds a book in the library labelled 'Do Not Read', he cannot resist taking it home. In it, he comes upon pictures of bright, vibrant objects called flowers. He cannot find flowers anywhere in the city, but stumbles instead on a packet of seeds. This sets off a chain of events which bring about unexpected results, continuing to grow and bloom even after we have turned the last page. John Light's enigmatic story is told with utter simplicity, but resonates long after we finish reading this book. His increasingly optimistic vision is hauntingly captured by Lisa Evans's beautiful and whimsical illustrations.

Ketchvar III travels to Earth to inhabit the body of an average teenager and assess the damage humans have done to their planet. But even his highly advanced alien intelligence can't prepare him for life as an American teen.

Australian Flower Fairies Birthday Book Generations of children have loved the English Flower Fairy Books - here now are their Australian cousins. Twenty-six exquisitely detailed illustrations by well-known artist Elizabeth Alger adorn this brightly coloured book, featuring the Crimson Bottle-Brush Fairies, the Waterlily Fairies, the Yellow Everlasting Daisy Fairies and more. Each picture is accompanied by a verse, written by nature-inspired gardener, artist and poet Margaret Thornton. Her three daughters also contributed poems. The book contains pages for writing down birthday dates of friends and family, to help you remember. It is the companion volume to the Australian Flower Fairies Address Book, the Notebook and the Diary.

LOST ON AN ISLAND

Five Union soldiers in the American Civil War escape in a balloon. Driven by tremendous find themselves castaways on a strange island somewhere deep in the Pacific Ocean.

They call it Lincoln Island -- and through luck, pluck and the help from a mysterious hidden benefactor, they not only survive but become more like colonists than castaways. With their leader -- an engineer named Cyrus Smith -- they recreate the wonders of nineteenth century civilization with what they find on the island. Along the way, the "colonists" rescue Ayrton (a character from another Jules Verne novel, "In Search of the Castaways") who has been living like a wild creature. In this book, the third part of "The Mysterious Island," they must deal with Ayrton's former shipmates -- bloodthirsty pirates . . . and discover "The Secret of the Island." Namely, their mysterious benefactor, who turns out to be none other than one of the most famous characters of science fiction -- with his wonderful invention

Jules Verne is best known for such novels as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Around the World in 80 Days," and "Journey to the Center of the Earth," but he did a great deal of other work as well -- he published two books a year for decades, and left behind an "oeuvre" that approaches vast.

In this novel, published in this edition as "An Antarctic Mystery" but also known as "The Sphinx of the Ice Fields, " Captain Len Guy's brother is on the ship "Jane" when it goes missing, and the Captain must convince the crew of the "Halbrane" to take a long and dangerous trip to Antarctic in hope of finding his brother and any other survivors of the "Jane." But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end. . . .

The world will soon face the evil written in the chapters of Revelation. The devil's hatred for all humanity continues to brew, and now he has come to exert his true power. The final reckoning is upon the entire human race, and many will succumb to the lies and glamour of wickedness, rising up to battle against their own kind.

With the end near, the Kingdom of Galath must gather with other nations to fight the terrible army brought forth by Lucifer. But they struggle against a mighty force: buildings crumble as the dark armies decimate cities, and demons from the abyss terrorize the human race. In a well-calculated move, the devil reveals a beast, mortally wounded but miraculously healed, who takes human form to snatch the minds of people. He is the dreaded false prophet, and the weak and easily seduced fall to him in droves.

Hope is fading . but not lost. Dark and light collide in "The Earthen Realm," a spellbinding fantasy novel about the final battle between good and evil.

Wesley, Kurt, Lisa, and Mary aid the forces of good in the mythical kingdom of Anthropos and fight the evil witch, Mirmah. Sequel to "The Tower of Geburah.

THE TEENAGED CAPTAIN

"The sailors knew that they were lost. All rose, giving a terrible cry, which was perhaps heard on the "Pilgrim," A terrible blow from the monster's tail had just struck the whale-boat underneath. The boat, thrown into the air with irresistible violence, fell back, broken in three pieces, in the midst of waves furiously lashed by the whale's bounds."

Young Dick Sand has just been a sailor on the "Pilgrim," a whaler on a Pacific Ocean hunt between South America and New Zealand.

But the captain and the rest of the crew have been killed trying to harpoon a whale.

Now fifteen year old Dick was captain

Nor was this to be a simple voyage to safety, even as he tries to train castaways from another shipwreck Tom, Acton, Austin, Bat, Nan and even Dingo the dog to help him with the vessel.

For the cook, Negoro, has other plans for the crew and passengers of the "Pilgrim,"

Trick the boat to a course to Angola -- and sell Dick and all the others into slavery

Here's salty sea adventure of the finest caliber by story master Jules Verne.

Michael O'Brien, a somewhat spoiled 12-year-old, is puzzled when his workaholic mom insists on a two-month road trip, to New Mexico, in the middle of the school year.

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness

But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the "Columbiad"; the Apollo 11 command module was named "Columbia." Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place.

Coincidence -- or "fact ?" We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.