Finders Keepers
10 best books like Finders Keepers (Emily Rodda): I Can Jump Puddles, Seven Little Australians, Blinky Bill, Misery Guts, Wombat Stew, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, Unreal!, The Naming of Tishkin Silk, Space Demons, There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake
| Author | Alan Marshall |
| ISBN | 0143003046 |
I first read Alan Marshall's autobiography of his childhood - I Can Jump Puddles (1955) as part of the school curriculum in early high school. I loved the bighearted story of overcoming adversity then, but wasn't sure what to expect when I reread it as part of the Popsugar 2016 book challenge (a book your...
| Author | Ethel Turner |
| ISBN | 1428041451 |
19th century Australia: Captain Woolcot, having lost his wife tragically young, remarried a much younger young woman to provide his six children with a new mother. Together, they had another child, making seven. The Captain felt it was necessary to run the family with army discipline, but his rules...
Blinky Bill, the mischievous anthropomorphic koala, is well known around the world through the TV cartoon and movies, but the book version is a little darker. He runs away from home several times and constantly disobeys his mother, who of course beats him when she catches him - this would have been a normal...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0330399950 |
Keith's heart was pounding. Calm down, he thought. You're not robbing a bank. You're not kidnapping anybody. You're just painting a fish and chip shop orange. Keith is trying to cheer up his parents. But a pair of misery guts need more than a pot of Tropical Mango Hi-Gloss to make them happy. What they really...
| Author | Marcia K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 0382092112 |
When I was in the book store very recently, I saw this book on the sale table and nostalgia just brimmed out of me. I showed it to my fiance and surprisingly he had never heard of the book. It's fantastic!! I NEED to go back and get it! It's just brilliant!
The story, moral, catchy rhyme and beautiful...
| Author | Robin Klein |
| ISBN | 0140361715 |
The hilarious account of a crazy alien family's stay on earth, as their extra-terrestrial powers and ignorance of earth customs get them into trouble, and adventures.
The planet Zyrgon is ruled by the galactic police called The Law-Enforcers, who are after Mortimer because has cheated the...
| Author | Paul Jennings |
| ISBN | 0140370994 |
Use a little caution when reading this book...
I had to give it 4 stars because I was so impressed with how well it captured my sons attention. This book consists of 8 short stories that are divided up into little chapters, so it's ideal for kids with a short attention span.
I would definetly...
| Author | Glenda Millard |
| ISBN | 0733313140 |
Griffin Silk is an uncommon sort of boy, from an uncommon sort of family. The warm, loving home he shares with his father, grandmother and five big sisters (The Rainbow Girls) is marked by the aching absence of his mother and baby sister. Where have they gone and will they be coming home again? When Griffin...
| Author | Gillian Rubinstein |
| ISBN | 0140321993 |
Space Demons (Space Demons Trilogy, #1), Gillian Rubinstein
Space Demons is a book by Australian author Gillian Rubinstein. First released in 1985, the young adult science fiction novel is the first of the 'Space Demons' trilogy. The book was awarded the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers...
| Author | Hazel Edwards |
| ISBN | 0340286970 |
'My daddy says there's a hole in our roof. I know why there's a hole. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake.'
The cake-eating hippo is ageless. This classic story about one of the largest and most famous imaginary friends has been delighting children around the world for almost 40 years....
| Author | Elizabeth Honey |
| ISBN | 1863738584 |
In the tradition of the great detective novels, Henni keeps a journal of the events on Stella Street, recounted with a battalion of zany, 11-year-old truths and insights. When the Phonies move into 45 Stella Street, the neighborhood is in for a shake-up, explains Henni. Former occupant Auntie Lillie's...
| Author | Nadia Wheatley |
| ISBN | 0916291545 |
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I have just spent a delightful forty-five minutes reading the children’s book “My Place”. Winner of many awards in its home continent of Australia, it is fully worthy of all of them. What a joy and pleasure it was!
The book spans two centuries, from 1788 to 1988, and covers the...
| Author | Paul Jennings |
| ISBN | 0140376356 |
03/12/2011 - just received a copy via readitswapit! So excited to read these again :)
Thoughts as of 06/12/2011 -
Pink Bow Tie - aha, the "Age Rager" which can make people become older or younger. Very short (or perhaps I just haven't read a PJ short story in a while?) but also very Paul...
The 117-Story Treehouse: Dots, Plots & Daring Escapes!
| Author | Andy Griffiths |
| ISBN | 1250317207 |
New York Times-bestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 117-Story Treehouse--the ninth book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor!
Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse....
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants
| Author | Dav Pilkey |
| ISBN | 0439998190 |
From the beginning till the end, this 4th installment in this graphic novel series will make readers burst out laughing of how funny the plot and the scenes are. I even re-read it right away just to make sure I remember the story. .
