Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Animals

Discover some of Australia's unique aquatic creatures through Pete Cromer's bold and beautiful animal portraits. This gallery in a book features 18 of his best loved Australian fish and marine animal collages.

An ultimately inspiring story of how giraffes have dealt with modern climate change, beautifully told and illustrated - and marking the launch of an exciting new series. Once, this season of rains was the season of giraffes... In this powerful picture-book, bestselling children's author Nicola Da...

Follow Buzzwing the honeybee on a beautifully illustrated journey through the world of bees filled with amazing science and intriguing folklore. Welcome to my honey hive home. It's where I live with my family. I'm small and fuzzy and striped black and gold. I'm Buzzwing the hard-working honeybee!...

Let Luna, a friendly ladybird, lead you through this beautiful first guide to bug life. Learn about bug habitats -- who lives where, from teeny tiny bugs (featherwing beetles) to the largest of critters (giant stick insect and goliath beetles). Find out the amazing things that bugs can do, like f...

Butterflies may be the most magical of insects--but did you know that some of them can fly almost forty miles per hour? This stunningly illustrated children's reference shares some of the most incredible and thrilling details about the many kinds of butterflies and moths. From where they migrate ...

A timeless treasury of more than 100 stories from the incredible kingdom of plants, told by author and nature expert Ben Hoare. Plants are found almost everywhere on Earth, but to many people their lives are a mystery. Discover the secrets of more than 100 amazing plants in this treasury of intri...

Explore the fascinating world of native Australian animals through the five basic senses - sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. Covering more than 145 truly astounding animals - from sharp-eyed whale sharks to sticky-bellied green tree frogs - "Sensational Australian Animals" showcases the stran...

Butterflies and moths are some of the most amazing creatures in nature. There are over 180,000 different kinds and they can be found on every continent except the Antarctic. The intricate beauty of butterflies spans the globe and yet also settles close to home in a child's garden, local park or w...

Have you ever heard about the cookie-cutter shark, which bites out cookie-shaped morsels of flesh from much larger animals than itself? Or the goblin shark, which was thought to have become extinct 100 million years ago until a living specimen was discovered in 1898? And did you know that the wha...