Margaret Wild

Liam Wade is facing the biggest change in his life since marrying his best friend, Janelle, and adopting her daughter. Janelle has long since passed on, losing the battle to live a few days after her daughter is born, leaving Liam a father, in need of finding a mother for his daughter Emma. He's rich, successful, and Leigh is the perfect, approved, wife for him. Before he settles down to give his daughter the best family he can, he wants one week away, to think. Just to make sure that he can leave half of himself hidden and marry without love, because Liam has one big problem in all of this -- he's gay. Micah Adamson is the owner of a vineyard in Rochester NY, and has yet to find the partner he knows is out there for him. he believes in love and wants forever, and one day he knows he will find his 'forever' man. He attends a wine festival in Santa Monica, seven nights in a beautiful hotel on the beach. Micah wants to show that love between two men includes affection, understanding, and can be forever. Will he make Liam see sense?

sad , rude and friendly

Every morning Bogtrotter runs across the bog, up the bog, down the bog and around the bog until it's time to go home. Sometimes he wishes things would change, but he doesn't know how or what or why. Until one afternoon, when he picks a flower for the first time in his life ...

A noisy, exuberant story, ideal for young children and their parents to read aloud together, by two of Australia's favourite picture-book makers.When she was a baby, Ruby liked making popping noises with her dummy.'Pop! Pop! Pop!'When she was older, she tried making scary noises instead. 'Scrrr! Screekle! Scrunch!' But she couldn't frighten anyone, not a frog, not a fish. 'Shivers!' thought Ruby. What was the scariest noise she could make?And she opened her mouth wide to find out...An exuberant story from two of Australia's favourite picture-book makers, perfect for parents and children to read (and ROAR) aloud.

Because Kate is the quiet one compared to her four noisy brothers and sisters, her parents are slow to notice that she is near-sighted and needs glasses.

A mother dinosaur speaks to her absent mate, describing how she and her newly hatched babies are staying alive while he hunts for a safer place for them all to live.

Sally loved knitting and every birthday and Christmas she asked for balls of wool. She knitted all her wool into a great big thing, which proved to be ideal for the circus' new Big Top.

A moment. That's all it takes. A bewildering moment when the world spins upside-down, and then life can never be the same again. Arrow was just a girl when she saw something no child should have to see. And Marika is living a sister's worst nightmare ... When Arrow and Marika come together in a small seaside town, they meet a mysterious 'magician' who says he knows how to escape the now and step into a new future. A brilliant and bitter-sweet story of loss and courage, with a surprising twist. If you could live a different version of your life, would you take the chance? From the award-winning author Margaret Wild, this spellbinding story places two young women at the turning point in their lives, and each must choose to accept the life she has, or to leap into one she might yet live.

When the Queen and her entourage go to the beach, the Queen takes charge in no uncertain fashion.

A rhyming story about the things babies love to do with familiar activities as playing peek-a-boo, clapping, and banging a drum.

Granny is more enthusiastic about the different activities at the fair than the two children who take her.