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Authors and illustrators: Cherie Zamazing, David Shephard, Mike Love, Michelle Todd

Publisher: Lonely Planet

Three copies to give away

Marco and Amelia are on a trip through the world’s dry and dusty deserts. This sticker activity book is packed with puzzles to complete, stickers to add, pages to colour and loads of fascinating facts.

Ride camels to an Arabian oasis, discover dinosaur fossils, camp out under the stars, take a trip down the River Nile and lots more. Gorgeously illustrated and featuring the Lonely Planet Kids explorers – Marco and Amelia – this is the perfect gift for any curious child aged five plus.

Author: Jennifer Gall

Publisher: NLA Publishing

Three copies to give away

Rose was the mother of famous Australian poet Banjo Paterson (known as Barty as a boy) and, yet, very little has been written about her. As wife of pastoral station manager Andrew Bogle Paterson, Rose’s married life was lived under straitened financial circumstances, something that a woman of her class would not have expected. At Illalong station, near Yass in NSW, Rose was isolated – geographically and socially. Andrew was frequently away, leaving Rose to manage on her own in their dilapidated slab house, often with no domestic help and often in harsh weather conditions. Her existence was punctuated by multiple pregnancies and childbirth, organising her seven children and their education and labouring over the never ending chores. Looking for Rose Paterson places Rose within the broader context of Australian life in the 1870s and the 1880s, enabling us to develop an appreciation of her struggles and joys all the more.

Author: Katie H Willcox

Publisher: Hay House

Three copies to give away

We live in a world where beauty is everything. Society tells us that if we just looked a certain way, if we had the right products, if we were skinny enough, then we would be enough – we would have value. Society is wrong, but it took Katie H Willcox years to understand this:

“Over the course of my 30 short years, I have both worked as a professional model and been the exact opposite of our culture’s beauty ideal. I have struggled with my weight and felt like I didn’t and never would fit in. Then I had a powerful realisation: my misery and self loathing didn’t change with my weight or how ‘pretty’ society thought I was, so my looks weren’t the source of happiness and worth that I had believed them to be. But then, what was? And how had I come to invest so much of myself in beliefs that were so untrue?”