Cirrus@Austlit

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'Pippa is back and ready to soar to new heights but two little weights keep dragging her down – her troublesome twin brothers!

'Pippa loves her new twin baby brothers, Pepi and Penn. But their constant mess and cries for attention are driving her batty! She yearns to take off on her own but she has to babysit instead.

'How can she be a good big sister and still have fun? Join our favourite feisty pigeon on her latest feather-raising adventure – big-sisterhood.' (Publication summary)

'When Mum’s two puggles left the burrow, everyone whispered, ‘That’s the strangest platypus ever.’

'But then Spike tackles a feral cat to save his family, and everything changes.

'Not only is he the bravest puggle, he’s also the luckiest.'  (Publication summary)

'Dive with young whale Fluke into a sparkling deep-sea adventure.

'Fluke is a young sperm whale with big dreams of seeing the stars. But when you've got a whale-sized head in the way, looking up isn't easy.

'So when wise old Cachalot advises him to look for the stars that shine below, Fluke sets off on an adventure that he never imagined possible.' (Publication summary)

'A ladybug lands on a stick that is bobbing along a creek. As she is joined by a cast of curious creatures, the fate of the stick hangs in the balance.

'This humorous, rhyming tale will keep you guessing till the end.

'What do you think? Float or sink?' (Publication summary)

'Ivy couldn’t get to sleep, her mind was burning bright.

'I’m done with counting sheep, she thought, I’ll paint my dreams tonight.

'Join Ivy as she goes on a wondrous and colourful journey through her imagination.

'A celebration of creative play and resilience with a generous splash of colour-mixing thrown in.' (Publication summary)

'Stumpy is a Quig, a remarkable little creature living in the soaring towers of an alien city. Quigs are daredevils, acrobats and fearless leapers. But not Stumpy. He is different – he looks different, and he most certainly feels different. Mocked and bullied, Stumpy finally decides to take a leap of faith – but has he jumped too far?'

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'Tulip and ladybugs live different lives to Brutus and the stinkbugs — they NEVER play together! When a storm merges their habitats and a new threat looms, the bugs discover they have more in common than they realised.'

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'Pippa is a little pigeon with big blue-sky ambitions: to fly solo and explore the world beyond her nest. Her parents are less than thrilled with their risk-taking feathered fledging and smother her with well-meant yet suffocating warnings until one day she ignores them all, and takes the leap into the unknown...alone.'

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'Inspired by a windy autumn afternoon and two real little girls, The Perfect Leaf takes the simple joy of leaf-kicking and turns it into an extraordinary flight of the imagination.'

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'Glitch spends his life searching through mountains of mouldy mess at the dump. He wants to make the fastest billycart ever. This year, he will be competing in the Big Race! 

'But will his twitch stop him from winning?' (Publication summary)

'I began as a tiny spark in the dry grass.

'All I wanted was a friend. I found one in the wind, who helped me grow, who helped me fly!

'In the end, though, was the wind really my friend at all?'

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'Stunningly illustrated in over 70 paintings, The Poppy is the true story of one of Australia's greatest victories, and of a promise kept for nearly a century. On Anzac Day, 1918, a desperate night counter-attack in the French village of Villers-Bretonneux became one of Australia's greatest victories. A bond was forged that night between France and Australia that has never been broken. Villers-Bretonneux is 'The town that never forgets'. What was achieved that terrible night - and what happened after - is a story that, likewise, Australians should never forget.' (Publisher's blurb)

'In a time before Australia existed, a little dinosaur with big eyes roamed the Antarctic forests, nibbling on cycads and ginkgoes.

'One day the little dinosaur fell and hurt her leg. She struggled to keep up with her herd.

'Time passed and the world changed, but the discovery of the little dinosaur's leg bone millions of years later, meant her life would not be forgotten.' (Publisher's blurb)

'This fun book features all sorts of dinosaurs drawn to scale in relation to the things around them, whether it's a golf club, a table tennis table, or a basketball court. There's also some extra information on these fascinating creatures.'  (Publication summary)