Welcome To Ben & Gracie's Art Adventure
The paintings of iconic Australian artists are brought to life in this exciting picture book series of adventures about a young boy and girl, Ben and Gracie.
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Inside the World of Tom Roberts
When Ben and Gracie go to meet their mum after work at the art gallery, they're hoping the golden ticket they still have from their previous visit will again transport them into a painting. This time, they find themselves whisked back in time to the world of another colonial artist, Tom Roberts.
When the young daughter of a settler family invites the pair back to her parents' farm, not only do they meet Tom Roberts himself and see him at work, but they also witness a robbery when bushrangers ambush a stagecoach.
Will Ben and Gracie and their new friend be able to escape the cross-fire when troopers start shooting?
Available from April 2012
9780734411440 | RRP$28.99
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Art Adventures
The paintings of iconic Australian artists are brought to life in this exciting picture book series of adventures about a young boy and girl.
Inside the World of Tom Roberts: A Ben and Gracie Art Adventure
In this second book, Ben and Gracie Green lose themselves in the paintings of Tom Roberts and experience early settlement life in Australia. When Ben and Gracie go to meet their mum after work at the art gallery, they're hoping the golden ticket they still have from their previous visit will again transport them into a painting. This time, they find themselves whisked back in time to the world of another colonial artist, Tom Roberts.
When the young daughter of a settler family invites the pair back to her parents' farm, not only do they meet Tom Roberts himself and see him at work, but they also witness a robbery when bushrangers ambush a stagecoach. Will Ben and Gracie and their new friend be able to escape the cross-fire when troopers start shooting?
Author/Illustrator: Mark Wilson
ISBN: 9780734411440 Price: $28.99
Release: NEW 10/04/2012
Format: Hardback
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Ben & Gracie's Art Adventure: Frederick McCubbin
When Ben and Gracie visit their mum at the art gallery where she works, they lose themselves in the paintings of colonial artist Frederick McCubbin, venturing back in time to meet with new settlers to Australia. Transported into a raging dust storm before moving on to a forest glade, Ben and Gracie travel with their new friends and see for themselves the difficulties faced in the harsh Australian bush environment. But on venturing deeper into the forest in search of wildflowers, the pair come across fairies and lose their way at nightfall. Will they be able to find their way back to the settlers and the art gallery?
Author/Illustrator: Mark Wilson
ISBN: 9780734411426
Price: $28.99
Release: 12/04/2011
Format: Hardback
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About Mark Wilson
Highly acclaimed author and illustrator
Highly acclaimed author/illustrator Mark Wilson's many picture books include The Penguin Shore (a CBCA Notable Book in 1996), The Castaways of the Charles Eaton, Yellow-eye (winner of the Wilderness Society Award in 2002), the Extinction Series: I Saw Nothing: the Extinction of the Thylacine (a CBCA Notable Book in 2004); I Said Nothing: the Extinction of the Paradise Parrot; and I Did Nothing: the Extinction of the Gastric Brooding Frog. His most recent picture books are The Last Tree (2006), My Mother's Eyes: The Story of a Boy Soldier (2009), Journey of Sea Turtle (2009) and Angel of Kokoda (2010). The Extinction Series also won a Wilderness Society Award and a Whitley Award in 2004, and The Last Tree won a Whitley Award in 2007. Mark lives in Frankston, Victoria.
Other Books
Angel of Kokoda
Author/Illustrator: Mark Wilson |ISBN: 9780734411280 | Price: $24.99 | Release: 16/01/2012 | Format: Hardback
A Papua New Guinean boy helps a young soldier as his village is torn apart by World War II.
Twelve-year-old Kari grew up along the banks of the Kusumi River, east of the village of Kokoda. His father taught him the traditional ways of his people, and Sister Mary taught him English at the mission schoolhouse. One day Kari's peaceful world is shattered when a bomb rips through the village of Kokoda. Kari searches among the wounded and finds a young soldier lying in a ditch. The soldier is badly hurt, but Kari will not leave him. Together they make the perilous journey to safety along the Kokoda Track. During the Pacific War of World War II, a series of battles were fought along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea. The villagers who assisted the troops became known as the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels. Using a combination of oil paintings and pencil sketches, the multi-award-winning author and illustrator Mark Wilson brings this important period of history to life in this stunning picture book for older readers.
Teachers' guide available at www.angelofkokoda.com.au
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My Mother's Eyes
Author/Illustrator: Mark Wilson |ISBN: 9780734411914 | Price: $16.99 | Release: 27/01/2012 | Format: Paperback
A boy soldier in WW1 writes home to his mother about his experience of war.
A fifteen-year-old Australian farm boy lies about his age to enlist to war and is caught up in the horrors of World War I in Egypt and on the Western Front, where 5,500 Australian troops were lost in two days at Fromelles alone. This boy's story in this unique, stirring picture book is based on true stories of the twenty-three teenage soldiers - one only fourteen - who fought with the Australian army in World War I, as recorded at the Australian War Memorial (their names among a list of 60,000 Australian soldiers killed in that war). The author's grandfather was a boy soldier who, unlike the hero of the book, did survive to return home. Told in the boy's own simple language and with extracts from his letters home, the story is extremely moving and evocative of the real tragedy of that worst of all wars.
More information and teachers' guide available atwww.mymotherseyes.com.au
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Journey of the Sea Turtle
Author/Illustrator: Mark Wilson | ISBN: 9780734411099 | Price: $24.99 | Release: 07/05/2009 | Format: Paperback
The Australian sea turtle, the loggerhead, is a brave and beautiful creature and faces many dangers throughout its life. Follow the journey of one remarkable animal in this stunningly illustrated picture book.
This is a beautifully illustrated and informative picture book by acclaimed environmental storyteller, Mark Wilson. It is a story of survival as we follow the journey of an Australian sea turtle hatchling, from the beach of her birth and the predators there, to the dangers she faces at sea.
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The Last Tree
Author/Illustrator: Mark Wilson | ISBN: 9780734409867 | Price: $28.99 | Release: 01/03/2007 | Format: Hardback
A beautiful old eucalyptus tree provides food and shelter for many forest dwellers, but what happens when the tree's habitat is threatened? Complemented by beautiful painting depicting forest life, this picture book is suitable for 4-8 year olds.
The Last Tree is a story about a beautiful old eucalyptus tree that grew tall and strong over many years. It was the centre of life in the forest and provided food and shelter for many forest dwellers. But what happens when the tree is threatened as the surrounding forest slowly disappears?
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Young Murphy: A Boys Adventure
Author: Gary Crew | Illustrator: Mark Wilson | ISBN: 9780734407801 | Price: $28.99 | Release: 01/08/2005 | Format: Hardback
This is the true story of fifteen-year-old John Murphy, who joined Leichardt's ill-conceived Expedition of Discovery in northern Australia in 1844 and was extremely fortunate to have survived this gruelling journey. Each of Murphy's diary entries is prefaced with an excerpt from Leichardt's journal.
Young Murphy was befriended by the naturalist/illustrator of the expedition and learned the art, and the text is accompanied by beautifully drawn illustrations of plants, animals and scenes encountered on the expedition. Murphy went on to become a wildlife illustrator of note himself.
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