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QUALITY BOOKS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Catalogue 2013

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The Little Eskimoby Davide Cali & Maurizio QuarelloISBN 9780987109958 (hb)RRP AU$26.99ISBN 9780987109965 (epub)RRP AU$9.99

The Little Eskimo wants to know what’s on the other side of the great frozen lake, and he wants to know if he’ll be a great hunter when he grows up.

He starts out on a quest to find the answers but none of the arctic animals can help him. Finally, a whale takes the brave little boy to the one creature who knows all and the Little Eskimo discovers his two questions are very much connected.

Empty Fridgeby Gaetan DoremusISBN 9780987109934 (hb)RRP AU$27.99

Empty Fridge is a picture book that taps into strong themes in children’s lives: the love of food and cooking, sharing, and the importance of good friends and neighbours.

Winner of the prominent Graoully Children’s Choice Award in France, Empty Fridge is an inspiring and thought-provoking entertainment for the Junior Masterchef generation.

* Focus book of Social Inclusion Week

This beautiful evocation of modern living and the pleasures of sharing won a prominent kids’ choice award in France and can now every-one from three-year-olds to adults can enjoy its delectable delights!- Readings Monthly

Lovely! Empty Fridge is a treat.- Babyology.com.au

The thing I like to tell the children is that no matter how different you are, no matter how alone you may feel, there is a place for you; there’s someone just like you.- Davide Cali

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10 Little Insectsby Davide Cali & Vincent PianinaISBN 9780987109910 (hb)RRP AU$29.99ISBN 9780987109927 (epub)RRP AU$9.99

In this innovative graphic novel, ten very different insects, each with something to hide, are brought together to a mysterious house on a secluded island for the weekend. Then, one by one, very unusual things start happening to them ...

But all is not as it seems, as Cali and Pianina delightfully subvert the whodunnit genre with a story that is at once brilliant, baffling, laugh-out-loud funny and somewhat surreal.

Who You Are is What You Doby Heather McAllisterISBN 9780980607024 (hb)RRP AU$29.99ISBN 9780980607031 (epub)RRP AU$19.99

A funky and informative workbook, designed to help teenagers make good decisions when taking the sometimes scary step of entering life after school.

Author Heather McAllister has drawn on her experience as a career coach to create an essential resource for schools, students and parents alike. Attractive and fun - to - use, Who You Are Is What You Do gets its readers asking the right questions about themselves.

The sort of book I think all teens should have.- SavvyMumma

A tool to help all of us deter-mine who we really are and what makes our hearts sing.- Buzz Words Books

It really works, there are lots of conversation starters here.- Richard Stubbs, ABC Radio

A humdinger of a graphic novel.- Herald-Sun

This brilliant book has that delicious Euro vibe, funny-bone-tickling characters, a little bit of gore and pockets of bite-sized suspense …- Kids Book Review

• Winner, Best Children’s Comic Book, Salon du Livre Jeunesse (France)

• Winner, Garonne Comic Festival (France)

• Winner,Tam-Tam Literary Prize (France)

• One of the Best Graphic Novels of the Year - Angoulême International Comics Festival (France

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Davide Cali

Davide Cali grew up in Italy and adored comics from an early age, especially Asterix. At 22, he wrote and illustrated for the monthly Italian magazine LINUS, but a passion for storytelling eventually led him to writing children’s books.

Since his first books, which he wrote and illustrated, he has collaborated with many talented illustrators including Serge Bloch, Gianluca Foli and Anna Laura Cantone. Picture book awards include France’s prestigious Baobab Prize for the most innovative book of 2005, Honour Book in the American Library Association’s Batchelder Award for I Can’t Wait, and four awards for his graphic novel 10 Little Insects.

Over the last ten years he has gone on to create more than forty illustrated books for publishers in Austria, France, Italy, Argentina and Portugal. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages all over the world. Wilkins Farago is proud to be Davide’s Australian publisher.

The Enemyby Davide Cali & Serge BlochISBN 9780958557184 (hb)RRP AU$29.99

The Enemy is a profound, moving and poignant fable about two lonely soldiers facing each other across a barren desert battlefield. Are they the only soldiers left? How can they end the war? Just who is the enemy?

At a time when many of the world’s conflicts—including those in which Australia is an active participant—seem to be drifting interminably on, this is a book that offers hope that conflict and violence can give way to peace, compassion and understanding.

Challenging the traditional notion of what a picture book is and who it is for is this stark, poignant book ... [which] boldly explores the futility of war.’ - The Sunday Age

Impressive ... the award-winning team of Cali and Bloch seems set for further recognition ... Highly recommended.- Magpies

Cali is nothing if not diverse in his choice of subjects to explore. He treats them with keen perception and creativity. Allied with gifted illustra-tors, his books are always memorable.- Magpies Davide Cali on his 2012 tour of Australia

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What is this Thing Called Love? by Davide Cali & Anna Laura CantoneISBN 9780980607079 (hb)RRP AU$24.99

What is this thing called love? What colour is it and what shape? Is it sweet or savoury? Is it big or small? Like a lot of kids, Emma would really like to know.

The problem is: everyone Emma asks seems to have a different idea of what love is.

In this entertaining and ultimately touching tale of questions and answers, we are reminded that, for a child, the most important love is that which lies at the heart of your own family.

This is the kind of picture book that gets worn out just from being read, poured over, and loved to death.- Sunday Tasmanian

You’ll laugh, sigh, giggle and be challenged.- Digital Orthodoxy

The Bear with the Swordby Davide Cali & Gianluca FoliISBN 9780980607048 (hb)RRP AU$24.99

In this timely and ingenious parable, a bear goes out into the forest with a sword to chop down trees. Soon after, his impregnable fort is washed away by a flood and he goes out to find and punish the creature responsible. After accusing a fascinating array of unusual creatures, he finally arrives at the truth: the flood was caused by some idiot with a sword who chopped down all the trees.

The bear’s remorse, and the actions he takes to make good his vandalism, will provide all young readers with food for thought about the effect they have on the world around them.

• Top 100 Children’s Books of the Year - CJ Picture Book Festival

• Top Children’s Book of the Year - International Youth Library’s White Ravens Catalogue

The exuberant illustrations are a perfect extension of the text and surely there has not been a better-depicted bear since ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’.- Readings

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I Like Chocolateby Davide Cali & Evelyn DaviddiISBN 9780980416589 (hb)RRP AU$24.99

Can you remember the allure of chocolate when you were a child? This delicious and funny picture book captures exactly why children love it so much.

It savours its different shapes and sizes; its colours and flavours; all the different ways it can be eaten; and the occasions chocolate is perfect for.

A warm and entertaining celebration of our most guilty pleasure, with and important message about friendship, sharing, and eating in moderation.

Chocolate may go straight to your heart. But so does this book. Delicious.- Kids Book Review

A humorous delight.-Firrkids.com

Santa’s Suitby Davide Cali & Eric HeliotISBN 9780980416572 (pb)RRP AU$19.99

After reading Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman, Davide Cali was inspired to write his own Christmas story.

This hilarious, original and thoroughly modern tale of Santa Claus will delight both children and adults. Already a bestseller in France, the book tells the story of Santa, who finds he has forgotten to clean his suit ahead of his Christmas delivery round - and finds the washing machine is broken!

His dog Bobo comes to the rescue. Armed with notes from a sewing program he’s seen on TV, he starts making a new suit - out of the curtains!

Will the suit be ready in time for Christmas? Will Santa learn his lesson and fix the washing machine in time for next Christmas?

Great visual appeal and plenty of humour.- The Mercury

A picture book with an edge.- Magpies

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A Dad Who Measures Upby Davide Cali & Anna Laura CantoneISBN 9780958557177 (hb)RRP AU$26.99ISBN 9780958557191 (pb)RRP AU$16.99

What makes a dad ideal? Is he strong as a wrestler, or handsome as a movie star? Is he intelligent or sporty? Or is he just good at jigsaw puzzles and has lots of hair?

One little girl is about to find out, in this funny, charming and ultimately moving story of her search for a dad who can measure up to the mummy she loves.

Written by the winner of France’s prestigious Baobab Award, Davide Cali, one of Europe’s most innovative writers for children, and illustrated by Anna-Laura Cantone, twice included in the Bologna Children’s Book fair illustration competition.

4.5 stars. Highly recommended.- Good Reading

Piano Pianoby Davide Cali & Eric HeliotISBN 9780980416534 (hb)RRP AU$24.99ISBN 9780980416565 (pb)RRP AU$14.99

Inspired by Cali’s own next door neighbour, this funny and entertaining picture book is about finding your passion.

Young Marcolino doesn’t want to practise the piano. ‘When I was your age, I played for hours,’ Mum insists, but Grandfather remembers things rather differently. He helps Marcolino find the musical instrument that’s right for him - and it’s a real surprise!

• Outstanding International Book - USBBY

• Special Mention - Bologna Children’s Book Fair Ragazzi Awards

The sharp text ... the pictures brim with goofy details ... it all adds up to a highly satisfying uncovering of a parent’s feet of clay.- Publishers Weekly

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I Love Kissing Youby Davide Cali & Serge BlochISBN 9780980416503 (hb)RRP AU$29.99

This romantic gift book is a celebration of that most pleasurable and romantic human activity: the kiss.

Originally written as a personal gift, this is an illustrated gift book for grown-ups. I Love Kissing You relates the history of a relationship through its more memorable kisses: from the momentous first kiss to those stolen in the kitchen, on stairs or in elevators, to those in more exotic locations.

Warm, funny and down-to-earth, the book features elegantly simple illustrations throughout, and is sumptiously clothbound and jacketed.

A quick read, but one I know I’ll come back to many times.- Goodreads

The Davide Cali Collection

ISBN 9780987109910RRP AU$29.99 (hb)ISBN 9780987109927RRP AU$9.99 (epub)

ISBN 9780980416534RRP AU$24.99 (hb)ISBN 9780980416565 RRP AU$14.99 (pb)

ISBN 9780980607048RRP AU$24.99 (hb)

ISBN 9780980416572 RRP AU$19.99 (pb)

ISBN 9780958557177RRP AU$26.99 (hb)ISBN 9780958557191RRP AU$16.99 (pb)

ISBN 9780980607079RRP AU$24.99 (hb)

ISBN 9780980416503RRP AU$29.99 (hb)

ISBN 9780987109958RRP AU$26.99 (hb)ISBN 9780987109965RRP AU$9.99 (epub)

ISBN 9780980416589RRP AU$24.99 (hb)

ISBN 9780958557184RRP AU$29.99 (hb)

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Sam and his Dadby Serge BlochISBN 9780980607086 (hb)RRP AU$27.99

Sam’s dad is an artist, and Sam’s life is full of creativity, exploration and adventure. This semi-autobiographical picture book shows us life through Sam’s eyes, as he plays with his little brother, goes to the park, visits a farm, goes on holiday—all in the company of the long-suffering but affectionate dad he loves so much.

Sam and his Dad is a joyful and funny celebration of ordinary family life, the little details that excite a child’s imagination and the quirky ways they interpret the adult world. It’s a book any child can see themselves in and relate to.

3 wishes for Pugmanby Sebastian MeschenmoserISBN 9780980607093 (hb)RRP AU$24.99

The day hasn’t started well for Pugman, quite possibly the grumpiest dog you’ll ever find in a kids’ book. He’s overslept, there’s nothing for breakfast and the rain has made his newspaper soggy. You’d be grumpy too.

Then, out of nowhere, a magical and unnecessarily cheerful fairy appears. She offers the grumpy Pugman three wishes.

Think you know what he’ll wish for? You and the fairy are in for quite a surprise!

‘[Meschenmoser’s] creatures are not slickly cute but refreshingly sympathetic. They do not ask to be admired. They look as if they need a hairbrush.’- New York Times

Satisfyingly cheeky.- Canberra Times

A warm, beautiful and gently humorous story about a dad’s place in the family.- My Little Bookcase

A sheer pleasure to read by oneself or with others.- Magpies

A charming book ... beautifully illustrated.- Brisbane Sunday Mail

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Teaching Kids to Readby Fay TranISBN 9780980607055 (pb)RRP AU$29.99ISBN 9780980607062 (epub)RRP AU$19.99• Give the gift of literacy

• Simple, easy-to-follow

• Uses phonics, the preferred method of

Australia’s National Curriculum

• Ideal for kids of all abilities, including

those with learning difficulties

• Now in its 4th printing

The gift of literacy is one of the most important gifts we can give our kids. It can quite literally transform their lives,

giving them the confidence and skills they will need throughout school and into their adult lives.

Likewise, poor literacy and numeracy can have a devastating effect on individuals and on our society. Every year more kids leave school without the skills they need to achieve their true potential.

As experienced literacy specialist Fay Tran argues in this timely and important book, no child should leave school without satisfactory literacy and numeracy skills.

The key is to teach them using PHONICS: the simple, effective and proven method described in this book.

Phonics is not only proven by modern academic research to be the most effective way of teaching literacy, it is also the method embedded at the heart of Australia’s National Curriculum.

Armed with the skills and techniques covered in this book, any adult can teach the kids in their care to read.

Whether you’re learning phonics for the first time or refreshing your skills, Teaching Kids to Read is an essential resource.

Grammar is back. The reading wars are over, with a proper emphasis on PHONICS.- Julia Gillard, Australia’s Prime Minister

Her approach to their problems reveals a thorough understanding of how children learn.- Assoc. Prof. Peter Westwood

Written in a clear, approachable, intelligent voice with an obvious passion for helping children achieve their very best, this book is a wonderful resource for anyone working with children in an educational capacity.- Kids Book Review

This refreshing book is an excellent resource to teachers and parents.- Dan Weigall OAM SPELD Australia

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The Red Pianoby Andre Leblanc & BarrouxISBN 9780980607017 (hb)RRP AU$27.99

During China’s Cultural Revolution, a young girl is taken from her family and sent to a far-off labour camp. Forbidden to play the piano, she finds a way of smuggling hand-written music into the camp and sneaking away at night to practice a piano in a secret location. Then, one night, she is caught ...

Inspired by the amazing true story of the international concert pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, this acclaimed picture book poetically relates an extraordinary story of perseverance set against a cataclysmic period of history which is, to this day, still shrouded in mystery.

Kampung Boyby LatISBN 9780980607000 (pb)RRP AU$22.99

With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips and religious education.

Meanwhile, the traditional way of life in his village (or kampung) is steadily disappearing, with tin mines and factory jobs increasingly overtaking the village’s agricultural way of life. When Mat himself leaves for boarding school, he can only hope that his familiar kampung will still be there when he returns.

This delightful autobiographical graphic novel is hilarious and affectionate, with brilliant, super-expressive artwork that opens a window into ordinary Malay life.

Sweet, funny, and brilliantly drawn, Kampung Boy is one of the all-time great cartoon books.- Matt Groening (The Simpsons)

This book is a must for any child’s bookshelf.- Amnesty International

The Red Piano unfolds with the simplicity of a parable.- The Australian

A wonderful way to introduce inquiring younger readers to different events in world history.- Suite 101 World Literatures

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In Just One Secondby Silvio Freytes & Flavio MoraisISBN 9780980416596 (hb)RRP AU$24.99

This ingenious and fascinating picture book depicts commonplace street scenes. Some scenes are funny, some exciting and some just intriguing. The final page shows that these events have one thing in common: they’re all happening simultaneously. On one street. In just one second.

Providing a colourful and entertaining streetscape for children to explore, this striking picture book also introduces kids to the concept of Time, and encourages them to consider all the things that are happening in just one second in their own world.

• Winner, Daniel Gil International Book Design Award

Waiting for Mummyby Tae-Jun Lee & Dong-Sun KimISBN 9780958557146 (hb)RRP AU$24.99

Book of the Year in Korea, Waiting for Mummy is a decep-tively simple story of patience rewarded. A child waits for his mother at a tram-stop. Trams come and go, people alight, yet her devoted son waits stoically and patiently, even as a snowstorm gathers.

A new edition of a 1938 story by one of Korea’s best-loved writers, this book has been a publishing sensation since its re-release with Dong-Sung Kim’s illustrations. It won the major Baeksang Publishing Award and was nominated as ‘Book of the Year’ by each of Korea’s three major national newspapers. It was shortlisted for Germany’s kids book prize, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

A very successful, elegant and simply beautiful picture book … Highly recom-mended.- Magpies

A beautiful story to share with children.- Reading Upside Down

This strikingly original picture book should appeal to a range of readers, and stimulate interesting discussions, in addition increasing our awareness of the visual richness of the world in which we live.- Magpies

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Why?by Lila PrapISBN 9780958557153 (pb)RRP AU$16.99

Why do crocodiles cry? Why are zebras striped? Why do hyenas laugh?

This informative and entertaining picture book gives both funny and factual answers and features Hans Christian Andersen Award nominee Lila Prap’s acclaimed pastel drawings.

Grow Up! How to raise an adult by being one.by John S. CheethamISBN 9780980416510 (pb)RRP AU$26.99ISBN 9780980416527 (epub)RRP AU$14.99

A book that will change the way you look at parenting forever. Based on 20 years’ experience helping parents and kids solve a wide range of challenges, Grow Up! shows parents how they can help their kids become happy, well-adjusted young adults.

Cheetham’s message is simple: you have all the skills you need - provided you remember to be an adult yourself.

His funny, refreshing approach includes case histories that provide real answers to the problems parents face every day, as well as scripts that tell you what to say when your own words fail you.

Practical, down-to-earth approaches to parenting that really do work.- Michael Edmeades, Psychologist

It is ideal to be read aloud to very young children or to be privately enjoyed by the older ones.- Good Reading

Very funny indeed and will have the listeners and readers grinning with delight.- Read Plus

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When we published our first foreign kids book in English in 2005, we had no business plan to speak of and no publishing policy. We just loved the book.

Fortunately, kids did too: we sold enough copies to publish a second book, then another, and another …

Seven years on, we can look back on some marvellous, award-winning books from countries as diverse as Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Slovenia, New Zealand … and Australia.

In retrospect, a close look at our books does reveal a policy at work.

• We like stories that engage a child’s head and heart, that stimulate enquiry and enable them to safely explore their fledgling emotions

• We like strong, distinctive illustrations—artwork which not only complements the text, but adds extra dimensions, as you might expect from some of the world’s top illustrators

• We enjoy encouraging children to witness new cultures, new ways of seeing the world and new ways of expression

• We value books produced to the highest design and production standards; that ensure the creators’ work is shown to its best advantage

We also like to aid those who enjoy using of our books in classrooms, libraries and the home by providing helpful support materials, such as teachers’ notes, videos, downloads, a popular blog and an interactive wikisapce for kids.

As publishers, we believe that children (and those who care for them) deserve our respect. That means publishing the best books we can find for them from around the world.

We still love every book we publish. We hope you do too.

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