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Busy Little Fingers: Art - Children’s Arts and Crafts Activity Kit
Can you make a face with vegetables?
How do you paint a dream?
This bright and busy book provides a fun first look at art concepts, and is jam-packed with things for busy little fingers to try!
This vibrant little book is the perfect introduction to modern art for children aged 4-6. Featuring 10 need-to-know movements from Pop Art to Surrealism, learn all about each one and its defining characteristics, before trying your hand at creating your own! Paint like Picasso, colour like a Cubist and mark-make like Monet.
WINNER of the silver award at the Right Start Awards 2022!
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The Song Walker
From the author of the acclaimed The Shark Caller comes a moving, compelling story of two girls carrying their own secrets through the vast and threatening Australian Outback.
Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024
The Song Walker is an extraordinary new story of friendship, discovery and courage from Zillah Bethell, author of The Shark Caller which won the Wales Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Children's Travel Book of the Year 2022.
"There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: Where am I? What am I doing here? And... Who am I?"
When a young girl wakes up in the middle of the desert, she has no idea who she is. She's wearing one shoe, a silky black dress, and she's carrying a strange, heavy case. She meets Tarni, who is on a mysterious quest of her own. Together, the two girls trek across the vast and ever-changing Australian Outback in search of answers. Except both are also hiding secrets.
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