Books like Shapes of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft

A story about many different sheep and one that seems to be missing.

In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by

Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, which will tease and delight readers of all ages.

Josephine the kangaroo wants to dance. Her brother Joey tells her that kangaroos don't dance they jump and that she should go back to the bush but Josephine is determined to dance with the ballet when they come to town. A charming story, beautifully illustrated, about following your dreams.

About the joys of a physical book and how they are not just for babies and old people.

An interactive picture book where kids have to shake the book to unblock pipes and get colours to mix. Interactive without needing an online connection - you shake the book and turn the page to see what has happened. Story teaches kids how mixing colours creates new colours.

A little koala tries to tell the world that koalas are not bears at all.

Stick sticks up for Stone when bully Pinecone makes fun of the rock, and the two become close friends.

A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery and feeds the larvae and the queen. But is she strong enough to fly? Not yet! Apis builds wax comb to store honey, and transfers pollen from other bees into the storage. She defends the hive from invaders. And finally, she begins her new life as an adventurer. The confining walls of the hive fall away as Apis takes to the air, finally free, in a brilliant double-gatefold illustration where the clear blue sky is full of promise– and the wings of dozens of honeybees, heading out in search of nectar to bring back to the hive. Eric Rohmann’s exquisitely detailed illustrations bring the great outdoors into your hands in this poetically written tribute to the hardworking honeybee. Award-winning author Candace Fleming describes the life cycle of the honeybee in accessible, beautiful language. Similar in form and concept to the Sibert and Orbis Pictus award book Giant Squid, Honeybee also features a stunning gatefold and an essay on the plight of honeybees.

Relates a legend about the Irish slave girl who became Saint Brigid, beginning with a celestial song, a mysterious gift, and a prophecy on the night of her birth.

Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning. The doctor says they need to buy her milk to make her better, but they have no money. They try to make some by singing in the town square, but a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. With the help of three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, they defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.

A pictorial vocabulary book with words grouped under common activities such as mealtime and basic concepts such as weather