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Picture Books
 Jessica Joan (2000) Every day Jessica Joan goes shopping - but every day this week she comes home with a new pet instead of the food she asks for.
Arabella (1998) The story of a boy learning to sail with his grandfather, and the storm that teaches them both about the most important things in life.
Grandfather Martin (1996) When Grandfather Martin retires, his wife has to find a solution to his attempts to organise her.
Micki and Daniel: Pegasus and Ooloomooloo (1993) Micki and Daniel meet the pony Pegasus and the
parrot Ooloomooloo, and accidentally become circus performers.
Micki and Daniel: A Train to the City (1993) When Micki and Daniel take a train to the city, they take their pony and parrot with them.
Micki and Daniel: The Wedding (1993) Micki is the flower girl and Daniel's playing his violin - but the pony and the parrot refuse to be left behind.
Aa-Choo! (1992) What happens when a little girl has a cold and can't go to crèche and has to go to work with her mother.
Amanda's Dinosaur (1991) The story of a little girl who dreams of having a pet dinosaur.
Skinny Books
Sally's Painting Room (1997) In a busy family there's nowhere for Sally to be alone and paint, until she finds the room in the attic.
Alroy's Very Nearly Clean Bedroom (1996) Alroy's imaginary adventures while he tidies his bedroom mean that he accidentally builds a real burglar trap.
The Bully Biscuit Gang (1995) Two sisters find an unusual way to stop the gang at their new school from stealing everyone's cookies.
The Great Yackandandah Billy Cart Race (1993) Katie has to build a billy cart as fast as she can after she's helped her big brothers build theirs.
The Tin Can Puppy (1990) When Dylan finds a puppy at the tip, he knows that he has to look after it even though his parents say he's not old enough.
Junior Novels
 Spook's Shack (2003) A boy, a bright green ghost and his dog come together to defeat the ghost's
old enemy, Boris Banks.
Poppy's Path (2001) Poppy, tall as a giraffe, smart as a monkey and brave as a lion, sets out on a quest to find her own path in life.
Nim's Island (2000) A modern day Robinson Crusoe, Nim is alone on her desert island with her iguana, a motherly sea lion and her email.
Paradise Gold (1999) Roland's family are going to have to sell their big new house if Roland doesn't come up with a way for them to earn some money.
Paradise Palace (1997) Roland is determined to win his family a big new house in a grocery competition.
Yasou Nikki (1995) When Nikoletta has to go to school in her new country, she finds a new friend as well as a new language.
Ark in the Park (1994) Sophie, a lonely girl wishing for grandparents and a pet, meets the Noahs, who own the biggest, most wonderful pet shop in the world.
The Laziest Boy in the World (1994) Simon invents various machines to do all the jobs he hates - but they don't always work the way he expects.
Micki Moon and Daniel Day (1993) Two friends, their pony and parrot, and a summer of adventures.
Bad Martha (1991) When Martha's grandmother sends her a spell book for her birthday, Martha's experiments have disastrous results for her parents.
Novels For 12 and Up
A Light In Space (1995) When Andrew makes contact with a tiny, blobby alien, she promises to teach him lots of new tricks - but doesn't mention her plan to mine all the world's oxygen.
Dirtbikes (1995) Three boys and two girls spend their summer building a dirtbike track, learning to ride, and growing up along the way.
Mindblowing! (1994) The slightly revised, Australian version of A Light In Space.
Leaving It To You (1992) The story of a reluctant friendship between 14 year old Linda and 87 year old Mrs Pugh - and the mystery of the antiques that disappear when Mrs Pugh is hospitalised.
Young Adult Novels
 Peeling the Onion (1996) The story of the first year of a seventeen year old girl's recovery from a terrible car accident.
Adult Novels
The House at Evelyn's Pond (2001) A novel of three continents, three generations of women and the men they love, and one memorable weekend of discovery and decision.
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