Cirrus@Austlit

'Born with two larger, stronger brothers, Cordelia learns very early how to stand up for herself. Her parents are proud of her courage and tenacity, but they have no idea how valuable those characteristics will be when their peaceful valley home is threatened.

'Her father, Corzell has a premonition that something evil is coming to the valley. But the five valley clans are still caught off-guard when the Krat clan, led by Captain Kratt invade the valley and start to banish other magpie clans to take over the clan lands.
During the fight to repel the invaders, many lives are lost. After receiving a head injury and falling into the back of a ute, Cordelia is whisked away to a property hundreds of kilometres from the valley. With no memory of her former life, she must re-discover who she is and where she is from, before finding her way back to the valley to seek revenge on Kratt.

'When she returns, what greets her is not one problem but two. In the final fight, assistance comes from an unlikely source.'  (Production summary)

'Ironbark Creek: Home, Land and Country is the third book in the Ironbark Creek trilogy. In it, Cathy, Jack and others resolve to travel to Darwin and try to rescue the captives there. The community at Ironbark Creek though face other challenges as the Global Reset Consortium seek their capture or destruction. However, their biggest threat comes from closer to home as they all fight to survive in the dystopian new world after the 'turning'.'  (Publication summary)

'Ironbark Creek: Blood Lines is the follow up and continuation of the Ironbark Creek trilogy. In it, Cathy and Jack and all the people at Ironbark Creek face two new threats. One from the military arm of the Global Reset Committee and one from the final grey, that is set on revenge. They are joined by two refugees from Darwin and learn of a wider threat. Again they have to fight to save their home, their community and their land.' (Publication summary)

'The world has turned. COVID-25 has created havoc and Cathy knows the key to survival is finding and keeping their home safe. 'Ambos' (their word for the 'turned') ravage the country while Cathy and Jack fight to build a community, all the while struggling to understand what lies beyond the trench that surrounds Ironbark Creek.'  (Publication summary)

'Twelve mindless zombies have escaped the grave and are on the hunt for brains. Count down as they each meet a grizzly end in this illustrated counting book in verse.

'Complete with a 'documentary' of how the artist lost his brain while illustrating the book (a real risk when working with zombies.) this is a fun, little book.' (Publication summary)

'Many creatures share Australian city spaces-possums, cane toads, snakes, lorikeets, fruit bats, magpies and even kangaroos! This engaging book tells children about these creatures and how they react with, and sometimes surprise, the human population!' (Publication summary)

Out in the bush, in a stream in the sun, lived a mother platypus and platypup one. "Swim!" said the mother, "I swim!" said the one, so they swam in the stream, sparkling in the setting sun.

Go walkabout in the bush and see who else you can find as you count from one to ten.

(Source: back cover)

'All her life, our heroine has dreamed of being in a circus. She'd love to ride and jump and do acrobatics. When the school needs to raise money, she thinks the solution is obvious. They'll hold a circus! And she'll be the Ringmaster. But great ideas need hard work and determination. For confident early independent readers.' (Publication summary)

'On Monday Night Felix Smith decides he's a crocodile.'

This is the true story of George the echidna, who likes eating ants and termites, but who HATES the smell of gum boots.