Summer Catalogue

ACROSS THE CREEKRosanne Hawke148 pages129mm x 198mm9780648030508$19.95 inc. GSTChildren in Aidan’s town have mysteriously disappeared for years. When his friend Jenice disappears, Aidan goes in search of her. He crosses a forbidden creek, and with the help

of a piskey named Ra� , ventures into an abandoned mine. Here he discovers a strange world populated by mythical creatures who came to Australia with the � rst Cornish miners over 160 years earlier. Has he uncovered the secret of the missing children? And can he and Jenice escape the horrible spriggans and their fearsome dragaroo, or will they be trapped in the mines forever?Winner of the Cornish Holyer an Gof Award for Children’s LiteratureFor more information and teachers’ notes please visit www.rosannehawke.com

JONAH AND THE CLOCKWORK GOBLINMatthew Edwards202 pages129mm x 198mm9780987619396$19.95 inc. GSTJonah is a � � een-year-old orphan who thinks he already has enough problems in his life. He’s failing all his subjects at school, frequently

tormented by the school bully, and can count the people who care about his life (including his cat) on one hand—with � ngers to spare. When he faces losing his older brother, he’s convinced things couldn’t get worse. � en he is awoken in the middle of the night by a clockwork cyborg goblin who robs him of a cherished opal pendant and departs through a magical portal.  In his pursuit of the goblin thief, Jonah � nds himself cast into a world beneath his own where he must pick his friends wisely, grow up quickly, and choose between an eight-foot evil seductress queen and a thousand-year-old tree nymph if he is to survive —and save the world in the process.

HIDDENSif Dal178 pages129mm x 198mm9780648118619$19.95 inc. GSTOn the morning of the town fair Lily did not believe in elves. Lily’s main concerns were � tting in with the other kids in her high school and her Dad’s refusal to re-engage

with life a� er her mother’s death. All that changes when she and her friend Jackson fall into a mysterious, gaping hole on the outskirts of town.  � ey � nd themselves in a cavernous underground world inhabited by a people who call themselves ‘the Hidden.’ While Lily and Jackson make friends with some Hidden their own age, it soon becomes clear that the leaders have no plans to allow them to return to the surface, where they might reveal the existence of the secret world of the Hidden.  Lily suspects there is more to the Hidden’s desire to keep her and her friend among them and that their ‘fall’ into the hole may have been no accident.

ELOISE IN THE LAND OF BEGINNINGSJeanne Spyker Hardy108 pages129mm x 198mm9780648030591$12.95 inc. GSTEloise is a young girl who suddenly � nds herself on a great adventure in a very strange land. With her new friends Rainbow, Cat and Owl, she starts looking for the Wordsmith’s

Castle where all her favourite stories come from. A� er a long and dangerous walk through dark places they � nally arrive. But all is not as Eloise had expected. When she is taken captive, together with famous story characters, she learns that the Great Witch is about to change every good story into an evil one. Somehow Eloise must � nd a way to stop the Great Witch, and return the stories and characters to the Wordsmith. In the process, Eloise learns that her own life is a story, too, and one with great possibilities.

Morwenna has risked the ire and safety of her village by befriending a wolfchild. Set in the land of Lyonnesse in the year 1099, Wolfchild is the story of Morwenna who meets a wolf and a forbidden stranger, the wild boy, Raw. Despite the rumours, Morwenna believes that Raw is neither dangerous, nor a wolfchild. But visions and portents of impending catastrophe suggest time is running out for her to unravel the mystery of who Raw really is. And why does he have to stay hidden for a year and a day?

… a compelling tale is Rosanne Hawke’s poetic and wonderfully ambient Wolfchild. Set in the lost land of Lyonnesse in the years 1098 and 1099, Hawke draws the reader into the simple yet rich world of young Morwenna and the cycle that is her life… this book serves as a wonderful introduction to history and fantasy and would be a fabulous adjunct to many syllabi that seek to plunge students into the past. � e voice and tone of the novel ring true, and Morwenna, Raw and their disparate worlds are realistically and eloquently � gured.

Karen Brooks, Australian Book ReviewWOLFCHILDBook One – A Year and a DayRosanne Hawke110 pages129mm x 198mm9780648030515$14.95 inc. GST

wolfchild. Set in the land of Lyonnesse in the year 1099, Wolfchild is the story

simple yet rich world of young Morwenna and the cycle that is her life… this book serves

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of a piskey named Ra� , ventures into an abandoned mine. Here he

THE GOLDEN HOURClaire Belberg190 pages129mm x 198mm9780648030553$17.95 inc. GSTGraphic artist and computer hacker, James Elkind, � nds himself imprisoned in a windowless room with two women. Who are they and what is this facility they’re

trapped in? As they search through the past to try to understand their surreal dilemma, seventeen year old James must confront the contradictions of his identity. Can he escape to � nd a future, or will this room prove to be his tomb?

PHANTASTESGeorge MacDonald’s classic fantasy novelas retold by: Mark Worthing176 pages148mm x 210mm9780995416130$22.95 inc. GST

Mark Worthing has retold George MacDonald’s Phantastes.

Praise for MacDonald’s original 1858 publication:Whatever book you are reading now, you simply must get this at once.  –  C.S. Lewis to a friend a� er his discovery of MacDonald’s Phantastes.

George MacDonald is pre-eminently a mythopoeic writer. … In his power to project his inner life into images, beings, landscapes which are valid for all, he is one of the more remarkable writers of the nineteenth century. – W.H. Auden

It must be more than thirty years ago that I bought – almost unwillingly …- the Everyman edition of Phantastes. A few hours later I knew that I had crossed a threshold. … What it actually did to me was to convert, even to baptise my imagination. – C.S. Lewis

NARNIA, MIDDLE-EARTH AND THE KINGDOM OF GODA History of Fantasy literature and the Christian TraditionMark Worthing154 pages148mm x 210mm9780995416130$19.95 inc. GST

Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of fantasy literature within the context of its complex relationship with the Christian tradition. In this book, Worthing looks at early in� uences on the genre, including European fairy tales and folklore, Northern and classical mythology, and Christian allegory. He also explores the contours of a variety of fantasy worlds from MacDonald’s Faerie, Lewis’ Narnia and Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, to LeGuin’s Earthsea, Pratchett’s Discworld and Rowling’s world of Hogwarts.In these worlds, and many more, we discover themes such as the battle between good and evil, the question of the existence of God, and the problem of su� ering.Fantasy fans of all religious persuasions will � nd in this book a delightful and informative exploration of the rich history and profound themes of the fantasy genre.

LIZZY’S DRAGONMelissa Gijsbers74 pages129mm x 198mm9780648118626$12.95 inc. GSTWhen she � nds an odd looking egg in the forest behind her house she decides to hide it in her bedroom in the hope that it will hatch into a lizard.  What she gets is ‘Bubbles’, the

oddest, fastest growing lizard she has ever seen. It doesn’t take long for her annoying little brother to discover her secret pet. It also doesn’t take long for Bubbles to grow out of her room. Lizzy begins to wonder whether Bubbles is a lizard at all, or something even more amazing. But how will Lizzy keep Bubbles a secret? And what will happen to Bubbles if anyone � nds out about him?

Henry Mighty and Strange Moran are concerned with keeping the pub on the isolated island of Mora running, observing proper customs at all times, and of course, saving Henry’s young and magical nephew Wayward from the Kildareen Empire.It didn’t seem too much to ask from a pair of hearty and well-mannered wood elves. But as they drink and ponder their options, a pair of ra� men are being drawn their way, the high elves are about to make their � rst appearance since their defeat by the Kildareens more than a century earlier, and a powerful and ambitious wizard is about to leave his plotting in the dwarven mines of Elonia and turn his attention to their little island. In the midst of it all, a strange and powerful creature known as the Ballyman is also being drawn, on his little coracle, to Mora. But will the appearance of the Ballyman save them, or bring down the wrath of the Kildareen Empire?

THE BALLYMAN WAITS� e Mirror of Seasons 1S.J. Mckenzie294 pages129mm x 198mm9780648118602$24.95 inc. GST

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Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God tells the story of

oddest, fastest growing lizard she has ever seen. It doesn’t take long

SUB URBAN TALESP. H. Court210 pages129mm x 198mm9780648164210$19.95 inc. GST

In these glimpses of suburban life, Pete Court’s gentle yet sharp observations of the human condition manage to be both sardonic and compassionate. In language that sings with

inventiveness and a joyfully grim humour, each tale is woven through with touches of the magical, little sparkling surprises that add a thread of mystic wonder throughout the whole. At the end of it all I was le� contemplating just how well I was living, loving and being a Light in the Darkness. - D.M.Cornish, author, Monster Blood Tattoo series

PLAYING GODMorton Benning330 pages129mm x 198mm9780648208112$24.95 inc. GST

Keenley Turnshoe is a young apprentice cleric living in Utoptia, a medieval-like fantasy world of magic and monsters. But unknown to Keenley and the other inhabitants of

Utopia, their world is also the virtually rendered plaything of a very wealthy and self-absorbed young man named Je� , AKA the Great God Avatar. When Je� ’s ‘answering machine’, the Deus Interface, decides that it is the Great God Avatar, it identi� es Je� as a threat and strands him in his own virtual world. Je� seeks help from Keenley and his companions as he tries to return to his virtual throne room. As they risk their lives on a quest to � nd the Great God, will they discover the true identity of their di� cult travelling companion?

And will the Deus Interface be able to locate and destroy them before they ful� l their quest?

A fascinating and thought-provoking journey through a virtually rendered world. With interesting characters, twists and surprises, this is a riveting story for readers from eleven to one hundred.

Rosanne Hawke, author of Wolfchild, Across the Creek and � e Leopard Princess

SHADOWALKERCatch Tilly220 pages129mm x 198mm9780648164289$19.95 inc. GST“� ere’s a dragon watching me when I wake up.”As the Death Lord’s daughter, seventeen-year old Uriel is comfortable walking the lavender-

scented tunnels of death. She’s not pleased to be dragged back to the living realm of Meldin. It’s a world of laser-edged swords and shape-changing dragons, where the Lord of the World has sworn to kill her father. Uriel needs a place to hide and, with a fortune-telling dragon, four scrying cards she drew in death, and the son of her father’s enemy, she believes she’s found one. Until the rumours start …

Startlingly original, with unique world building and memorable images.

Guy Windsor, swordsman and author

Set on a light-� lled world peopled with dragons, shape shi� ers and a girl who can walk through death, Shadowalker is a fast-paced fantasy, laced with humour, that shows how fear of the stranger can result in catastrophe.

Rosanne Hawke, author of Daughter of Nomads

Utopia, their world is also the virtually rendered plaything of a very

Escaping from Midrash was not easy, even riding on the back of a dragon. Seeger promised his friend Boyd he would return with help to set him and the other child soldiers free from the brutality of the Midrashi. What he does not know is that it will nearly be a year before he � nally returns, across the desert, with an army and � ve dragons. But what will he � nd a� er all this time? Can the Midrashi be defeated? And what has become of Boyd and the other children?

New Release Beast-Speaker by W.A.Noble

BEAST-SPEAKER – THE FLIGHTW.A. Noble204 pages129mm x 198mm9780648164234$19.95 inc. GST

BEAST-SPEAKER – DRAGON FRIENDW.A. Noble

310 pages129mm x 198mm

9780648164265$24.95 inc. GST

We recognise the invaluable role that public campaigning – and books such as this - that bring  the reality of child recruitment to public attention - have in keeping this important issue in the international media and in in� uencing change.

From the postscript on Child Soldiers by Rev Tim Costello, Chief Advocate, World Vision Australia

Children are disappearing from the city of Seddon without a trace. � e city gates are locked and guarded, but still the children disappear. One night, Seeger and his friend Boyd are taken and they at last understand the mystery. � e abductors are using dragons! Two days later they arrive at the city of Midrash, where everything serves the military machine – including children who are forced to become soldiers. In a world in which they are daily confronted with violence and the loss of innocence, Seeger and Boyd struggle to maintain their humanity and their friendship. � eir only hope of escape lies with a unique gi� Seeger has discovered – but one which he must keep secret from his captors. He can speak to dragons.Both allegory and action-packed story, Beast-Speaker keeps the reader fascinated all the way through this well-developed tale.

Valerie Volk, author of Even Grimmer Tales, Bystanders, and � e Oberammergau Tales