Davina Bell

A breathtakingly original novel about love and destruction, from an award-winning Australian children’s author.

The End of the World Is Bigger than Love

Billedbog med rimet tekst. Celebrating all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they are and all about what makes you special - an introduction to conversations about self-esteem

All the Ways to Be Smart

A multiple award winner in Australia, this picture book portrays social anxiety compassionately, as both positive and negative, as it celebrates introversion in a story about a quiet boy with anxiety who learns to shine. Full color.

Captain Starfish

From this award-winning creative duo comes a stunning celebration of the joy and comfort that love can bring - wherever we roam in the big, wild world. Whatever you fear, come close my dear You're tucked in safe for always here And I will never not be near Because of our love umbrella A celebration of the joy and comfort that love can bring - in a special edition for the very smallest of readers.

Under the Love Umbrella

Alfie und der Clownfisch

For the first time, read all four Alicestories in one beautiful hardback edition. It's 1918 and Alice's deepest wish is to be a professional ballerina. But as World War One tears her family apart, a battle is being fought in her heart. Can Alice keep everyone together and still make her dreams of dancing come true? Journey with Alice across all four exciting stories about a gifted girl in a time of war. Loyal, creative and passionate, Alice is an enchanting Australian Girl.

The Alice Stories

With irresistible rhyming text by award-winning author Davina Bell and unforgettable illustrations by Jenny Løvlie, this new abridged board book edition of the beloved All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors is sure to charm and amuse the whole family. When Frankie McGee insists on borrowing yet another book about tractors, his mum crumbles. She begs him to read a book about something else - cars, planes, cranes, trains - anything! Frankie launches into all of the various, glorious factors that make up the love that he has for all tractors - but will he be able to bring his mum around? All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors was first published as hardback picture book in 2019 and was shortlisted for Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year and longlisted for ABIA Children's Picture Book of the Year in 2020. This edition is a hardy board book for readers aged one and up.

All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors

When lifelong friends Lola, Belle, Maisie and Sophia reunite at their beloved Corner Park Clubhouse for the winter school holidays, Lola has a great idea: they'll enter the local drama competition! It's the perfect way to spend as much time together as possible, and there are prizes for best actor, director and sets. As an artist, Lola’s determined her sets will win – but there’s just one problem. She can’t figure out what to paint, or even how to get started. And that’s because of something that happened at her super sophisticated art school last term – something Lola can’t discuss with anyone. Not her bestie, Belle, who’s brought her new friend Matilda home for the holidays. Not Maisie, who’s always busy with gym. Not Sophia, who’s focused on her secret crush. And not even her cool older sister, Tally, who’s at a conference in New York. With no-one to turn to but herself, can Lola figure out how to get her creativity back – before it’s too late? From beloved author Davina Bell comes this sparklingly funny and heartfelt middle-grade series, for fans of Friday Barnes and Ann M. Martin’s iconic Baby-Sitters Club series.

The Secret Life of Lola

The follow-up to bestseller All the Ways to be Smart by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys. An uplifting and healing book that every family needs in an era of overwhelming change.

Tomorrow Is a Brand-New Day

The international bestseller that celebrates the myriad talents that each child brings to the world. Smart is not just ticks and crosses, smart is building boats from boxes. Painting patterns, wheeling wagons, being mermaids, riding dragons... From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they are.

All the Ways to be Smart

Celebrates the myriad ways for kids to be smart--being empathic, artistic, athletic, and inquisitive.

It's 1918 . . . and the war has finally ended. Alice can't wait for Teddy to come home from fighting in Europe so things can go back to normal. But when Mabel gets up to mischief and a handsome stranger returns to Peppermint Grove, life becomes more complicated than ever. Can Alice fix everyone's problems -- including her own? Follow Alice on her adventure in the third of four exciting stories about a gifted girl in a time of war.

Alice of Peppermint Grove

Our Australian Girl: Alice of Peppermint Grove (Book 3)

The night before the Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade, Alfie got that feeling ... Sometimes it’s hard to be brave. Sometimes you get that feeling. Alfie isn’t sure he can go to the parade, but his mum knows there’s at least one special place for Alfie — a beautiful, shimmery, underwater world that tells Alfie it’s okay to feel shy. Because sometimes you’re just not ready ... until, one day, you are. From a dynamic new picture-book partnership comes this beautiful tale about fitting in and feeling brave; about giant octopuses with tiny hats; and about the secrets you can only tell the cowboys on your wallpaper.

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