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The Hunger Games movie – release in 2012 – trailer poster

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

EAN:978-0439023528
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published in: Unknown
Published: July 2010
Series: The Hunger Games trilogy

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games," a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.

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New Eric Carle book in October

Bestselling picture book author Eric Carle will publish his first new picture book in more than four years in October. The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse will be published simultaneously by Penguin's Philomel imprint in the U.S., and by Puffin in the U.K. Philomel has set a 300,000-copy first printing.

EAN:978-0399257131

Inspired by expressionist painter Franz Marc, The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse tells of an artist who “paints the world as he sees it.” Said Carle in a statement, “When I was in high school, in WWII Germany, I was secretly shown works by the banned Expressionist painters by my teacher Herr Krauss. This was an experience that changed my life and had a deep impact on me.” Carle has written and/or illustrated more than 70 books, which have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.

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Where is the Green Sheep?

We finally reveal where the Green Sheep has been and why she has been all over Australia.

Where is the Green Sheep?

Mem Fox

EAN:978-0670073641
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher: Viking Australia
Published in: Australia, 26 October 2009

Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep? Find your very own green sheep with a copy of Mem Fox and Judy Horacek's internationally acclaimed book in this gorgeous box set.

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Michael Wagner on getting wild with Ted!

So this has been pretty much my working life for the past year …

Not that I’ve been balancing on crocodiles, but I have been working on getting the balance right for my new book, Ted Goes Wild (illustrated by Tom Jellett).

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New from Janet McLean – Let’s go, Baby-O

Let's Go, Baby-o!

Janet McLean

EAN:978-1742375649
Format: Hardback
Published by: Allen and Unwin
Published: 1 March 2012

Let's Go, Baby-o! You and me! To the up, to the down and the turn around, to the wibble and the wobble, and the flip, flop hop. Then twist, twirl, whirrrl...When sleep-time is over, a little boy and his friend play action games, but in between they stop to look out the window. What do they see? Grandparents are digging in the garden, children are building a cubby house, the cat has her eye on the baby birds and the dogs have their eyes on the cat! Let's Go, Baby-o! is a fun-filled story for parents, grandparents, teachers and childcare educators to share with babies and young children. This book shows that learning language and playing games go together and will encourage the conversations between children and adults that are so important for children's development.

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Colour in Sniff the Dragon

Paul Jenning has added to his website. This time it's a colouring picture. Sniff the Dragon. Check it out at his fabulous downloads page. => http://bit.ly/nZC5qA

You can met Sniff in Paul Jennings' book "Rascal the Dragon"

EAN:978-0143501732
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Global
Published in: Australia
Published: April 2007

Ben wants a pet dragon, but his father says no because each one has a bad habit in this easy reader by Australian author Paul Jenning. Ben finds a stray dragon that he names Rascal and begs his father to let him keep him as a pet. When Rascal makes himself useful by lighting a fire ....

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Meg Rosoff – There is no Dog

There is No Dog

Meg Rosoff

EAN:978-0141327167
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published in: United Kingdom
Published: August 2011

In the beginning there was Bob. And Bob created the heavens and the earth and the beasts of the field and the creatures of the sea, and twenty-five million other species including lots and lots of gorgeous girls. And all of this, he created in just six days. Six days! Congratulations Bob! No wonder Earth is such a mess. Imagine that God is a typical teenage boy. He is lazy, careless, self-obsessed, sex-mad - and about to meet Lucy, the most beautiful girl on earth. Unfortunately, whenever Bob falls in love, disaster follows. Let us pray that Bob does not fall in love with Lucy.

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For Young adults – The Hollow People


by Brian Keaney
 
FROM THE BOOK JACKET:
 
"Dante looked around, making sure there was no one who might overhear him. Then he leaned forward and, lowering his voice, said, 'I still have dreams.'"
"It was the most shocking thing Bea had ever heard. 'Dr. Sigmundus says that disturbances of the mind which come to people when they sleep are the result of a psychic illness,' she replied."
"It was what she had been taught at school, and for as long as she could remember."
In Tarnegar, a sinister island where the laws of the mysterious Dr. Sigmundus hold sway, dreaming will get you locked up, branded a lunatic and a danger to all who know you.
Dante is a lowly kitchen boy. Bea is the privileged daughter of physicians. They aren't meant to meet or share ideas or, most dangerous of all, their dreams. But with the arrival of a notorious prisoner to the island's asylum, their worlds collide. Together they begin to question whether the promises they've based their lives on have been spun from lies and illusion--and if now is the time to break them.
"The Hollow People" opens a window on the unseen worlds that surround us. It is the first installment in The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus. => http://amzn.to/qP3zzS

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A creative thirst for life in the wild

THERE'S only one thing Graeme Base really fears and that's the thought that one day he might wake up from his dream life and have to get what he calls ''a proper job''. The confession comes with a chuckle. For someone who has published 13 books since 1983 and been involved in projects that range across theatre, television and music, he's more like a workaholic than a man of leisure.
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