Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Many interesting facts about apes and their life cycles. Easy to read with photographic illustrations.

With photographs and simple text, this book traces the life cycle of the duck, showing its growth and development from when it is an egg until it is old enough to mate and produce offspring.

A photographic exploration of the lifecycles of some popular farm animals, from birth to adulthood. Featuring a cow, a pig, a sheep and a chicken. Easy to read with photographic illustrations.

A fantastic introduction to life cycles to share with your child. With photographs and simple text follow the progress of the adorable bunny from his birth and playtime, until he grows up into independence.

This is a classically magical Christmas book based on the wonderful idea that Santa has a special watch that slows down time so he can deliver all his presents around the world. It has everything from the pathos of Charles Dickens's Tiny Tim (in this case the deaf boy who sacrifices his precious ...

The PBS television host and his team of young scientists investigate how the water cycle works by shrinking themselves down to the size of a raindrop to explore such elements as ice, steam, estuaries, snowflakes, and puddles. Young children will be able to find out what the water cycle is all abo...

Down to the secret water hole the animals all come. As seasons bring fourth drought and flood, they gather there as one. United in their common need, their numbers swell to ten. Hidden among the trees lie ten times that again. -- backcover.

When eight-year-old Kirstie finds a strange egg near her home, she has no idea what will come out. Part horse, part toad, part turtle, and part crocodile? Only Kirstie's grandfather knows what it is: a water horse! While it is certainly the oddest-looking creature Kirstie has ever seen, it is als...

Water Witcher brings to life the experience of a family in drought-stricken rural Australia during the Depression era. Through the eyes of Dougie, the optimism of childhood shines through despite the tough work and harsh conditions.

Young Tom is a chimney-sweeper's boy who one day falls into a river and drowns, only to be transformed into a water-baby. Through his encounters with friendly fish, curious lobsters, and characters such as Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby, he sloughs off his selfish nature and earns his just reward. Tom'...