Vendor: Curious Colombus
Type:
Price: 46.95

My Big Day is a uniquely designed 'day in the life' experience, helping little ones practice and improve their fine motor skills and other developmental milestones through interactive play, visual stimulation and tactile sensation.

There are 10 interactive pages encouraging hands on learning, including telling time, brushing teeth, lacing shoelaces, unzipping, getting dressed, buckling the dog's collar, preparing food, doing household chores, matching, buttoning and much, much more.

Produced from premium quality cotton, felt and accessories, this lovingly hand crafted, colourful book is soft yet highly durable. Fully zips up to close and includes carry handles for easy portability. Book measures 10" high x 8" wide.

My Big Day is great for learning at home or for keeping little ones quietly entertained as a travel companion. It's perfect for keeping kids busy on car journeys, plane rides, train journeys, on the bus, at the airport or station, during church services, weddings, and in waiting rooms. A must have for any pre-school parent.

Vendor: Curious Colombus
Type:
Price: 49.95

The Award Winning When I Grow Up encourages children to find their talents and passions through the world of make believe and role play. Children can turn their hands to future pursuits such as home building, fire fighting, creative arts or even space travel! When I Grow Up is designed to be gender neutral and is a great tool for dispelling gender stereotyping in our future generations.

It's ideal for helping little ones practice and improve their fine motor skills and other developmental milestones through interactive play, visual stimulation and tactile sensation. Some of the skills your little one will practise include buckling, zipping, popping, looping, velcro'ing and buttoning. There are 10 interactive pages encouraging fun, hands on learning. These include colour recognition, numeracy, healthy food preparation, problem solving, self care, picture and word recognition and much, much more.

When I Grow Up is great for learning at home or for keeping little ones quietly entertained as a travel companion. It's perfect for keeping kids busy on car journeys, plane rides, train journeys, on the bus, at the airport or station, during church services, weddings, and in waiting rooms. Fully zips up to close and includes carry handles for easy portability.

Vendor: Curious Colombus
Type:
Price: 52.95

Whether you’re into camping adventures, family road trips, or exploring further afield, the Junior Design Award Winning Away We Go fabric book brings to life all the fun and excitement of travel for the curious little people in your life.

Its interactive fabric activities allow your little ones to explore the wonders of travel, from letting them pack their own bag for the trip, to taking a taxi ride to the airport with a 3D interactive map. They can even put their own photo in their passport, buckle up for take off, or catch a fish on a fun camping trip. 

Away We Go is ideal for helping little ones practice and improve their fine motor skills, hand eye coordination and sensory processing through interactive play. Some of the skills your little one will practise include buckling, zipping, popping, lacing, velcro'ing and buttoning. There are 10 interactive pages encouraging fun, hands on learning. These include colour recognition, numeracy, problem solving, self care, picture and word recognition and much, much more.

Away We Go is great for learning at home or for keeping little ones quietly entertained as a travel companion. It's perfect for keeping kids busy on car journeys, plane rides, train journeys, on the bus, at the airport or station, during church services, weddings, and in waiting rooms. Fully zips up to close and includes carry handles for easy portability.

Vendor: Milestone Press
Type: Brands,Gifts
Price: 42.95

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The 2025 Master Plan Diary - Mon 14th October 2024- Sun 4th January 2026

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The Master Plan Diary has been helping keep you organised since October 2008!!

The busy parent’s secret to success. Does this sound familiar? Soccer and Football practice, dance lessons, school excursion, groceries, P&C cake stall, playgroup, GP appointment. And that’s just Friday afternoon...

Let us help get your and your family organised.  There is an art to juggling the family schedule, and it all comes down to having a Master Plan. This beautiful diary makes it easy to see everything at a glance, with a planner for mum (or dad or nanny) and up to five children.

The layout is unique and vertical so you can arrange your day the way it suits you best.

 It starts in October 2024 through to 5th January 2026.  Get organised before Christmas.

- Flexi bound wrapped in faux leather,  Handbag sized,  18.3 (h) x 13.5 (w) x 2 (d) cm and weighs only 250g so you’ll always have it when you need it most.

- Week to each page opening, for at a glance planning

-  Ribbon marker, Gift List Page, Tracker, Monthly Dates, Perforated Corners, Elastic Strap Closure, 2025 Planner, Monthly & Notepage view, 100gsm uncoated paper, printed navy throughout and most importantly the layout we all 

- Keep on top of it all with space for menu planning, birthdays, milestones and your never-ending to-do list .

- Includes school holidays and public holidays for Australia, New Zealand & UK.

Vendor: Compendium Books
Type: Brands,Gifts,Play
Price: 28.50

A STORY ABOUT DISCOVERING OUR BRIGHT POSSIBILITIES

“Life is given to us moment by moment.  Each day holds the promise of things to come and the potential to do something you love, something you believe in.  It is an opportunity to be brave, to live with your whole heart, and to become whoever you want to be.”

What if life is even more miraculous than you’ve imagined? Why not find out for yourself?

The words in this enchanting children’s book are here to cheer you on — to encourage you to be brave, live with your whole heart, and become whoever you want to be.

Written by New York Times bestselling author Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Gabriella Barouch, this follow-up to the beloved book Maybe is an invitation to embrace big possibilities.

Throughout the pages, a young child adventures alongside an adorable arctic fox friend, exploring the world’s wonders together, and learning to believe they are among them.

Someone is going to set out on a bold adventure. Someone is going to step up to the challenge. Someone is going to change things for the better. Why not you?

Written by Kobi Yamada / Illustrated by Gabriella Barouch

Hardcover. 48 pages

Vendor: Compendium Books
Type: Books
Price: 28.50

A BEDTIME RITUAL OF COMFORT AND CONNECTION

Written by M.H. Clark  / Illustrated by Inbar Heller Algazi

“It’s almost time for falling asleep. Here’s one more book… will you read it with me?

What was your favourite part of today? Will you share a bit about it… before we turn the page?”

More than a book, this is a bedtime ritual of comfort and connection. It’s a quiet place for little ones to process the day and put it away.

When parents or caregivers open the pages, they will be guided in creating a nighttime conversation that will settle young minds and bodies. The words will also walk readers through bedtime meditations for toddlers, helping kids focus on breathing, snuggling up, and feeling safe and loved before falling asleep.

Each page is an invitation to begin a brand-new discussion with a little one every night — whether you work through big emotions the day sparked or any anxious feelings around bedtime. As a result, this book is never the same two nights in a row — it will change as the days change and grow as a child grows.

Hardcover. 48 pages

Vendor: Compendium Books
Type: Books
Price: 24.50

Written by M.H. Clark / Illustrated by Katie Vernon

“This isn’t a book. It’s a smooch in disguise.
(Just because you’re my absolute favorite — that’s why.)
It’s a smooch that just perfectly brightens your day.
I want you to know I designed it that way.”

This may look like a book, but it’s really a little kiss you get to plant on your beloved, even when you can’t give one in person.

It’s a smooch you can tuck into their suitcase when they’re going on a big trip or send by mail if they live far away.

Adorable illustrations of squirrel sweethearts and fun-loving rhymes help you tell your partner how special they are.

It’s a unique, flirty gift, packed with kisses that never wear out.

Hardcover. 40 pages.

Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type:
Price: 30.00

Featuring twenty-two easy craft projects using natural and recycled materials, The Big Book of Nature Art is a fun and eco way for young children to connect creatively with nature.

From bestselling author Yuval Zommer, The Big Book of Nature Art is packed with twenty-two easy art activities inspired by nature. Each of the activities can be achieved in four simple steps using natural materials combined with recycled or found materials from around the home. Drawing on Zommer’s years of experience running art workshops for children, The Big Book of Nature Art includes his tips for stress-free ways to get creative with kids.

Each nature art activity requires no more than five minutes set-up and five minutes clean-up, making them easy to achieve and fun for everyone involved. The book also encourages children to see the creative potential in the natural and everyday treasures all around us – from twigs, seed pods, petals and leaves through to loo rolls, pencil shavings, takeaway cutlery and kitchen string.

Little nature artists will enjoy making paper-plate birds; leaf bugs; coffee-cup owls; tree bark bats; and seed pod creepy crawlies, as well as scenes for their creatures to dwell in, from watery worlds to underground tunnels.

Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Books
Price: 20.00

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Play
Price: 29.95

From the Adelie penguin to the Zigzag Heron, this A-Z book is jam-packed with over 400 animal species and all kinds of interesting animal facts.

Discover why the American flamingo is pink, how emerald tree boas hunt their food, what a baby echidna is called and whether the dusky leaf money really has four stomachs.

A companion book to Jennifer Cossins’ Ultimate Animal Counting Book, this one’s for budding zoologists aged 5+.

‘Cossins’ illustration style is at once so naturalistic yet so fun that you’ll want to reach into the page to pat the beagle and give the Chihuahua a treat.’ Readings Kids on The Ultimate Animal Counting Book

‘For those interested in words, and especially those with children who have an enquiring mind and a thirst for knowledge, any book by Tasmanian author and artist Jennifer Cossins is ideal.’ Kids’ Book Review

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Play
Price: 29.95

Can you count one blue whale? Probably. How about 16 lions? Or 44 penguins? Or 100 fairy flies? Join CBCA Award-winner Jennifer Cossins on an expedition through the animal kingdom, counting one to 100 and collecting fascinating animal facts along the way. Discover the colour of a zebra’s skin under its stripes, how a tapir uses its nose as a snorkel when it swims, and that cranes are famous for their dancing! Beautifully illustrated with full-colour pictures of animals great and small, from all over the world – from the familiar wombat and sea turtle to the unusual gerenuk and caracal – the Ultimate Animal Counting Book is an utter delight.

A CBCA "Notable Book" 2020

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Gifts
Price: 25.00

Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris follows Kate Knapp's critically-acclaimed and bestselling debut, Ruby Red Shoes. 

Ruby and her grandmother Babushka are off to Paris for a holiday! When they arrive they go and meet Babushka's brother, Monsieur Gaspar Galushka, and his grandson, Felix, who becomes Ruby's guide while she is in Paris. Together the two young hares zip around Paris on racy red scooters taking in all of the beautiful sights that Paris has to offer. It is the adventure of a lifetime, filled with memories that Ruby will treasure forever.

Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris was shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Book Industry Award for Book of the Year for Younger Children, and the 2014 Inaugural Readings Children's Book Prize.

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Gifts,Play
Price: 16.00

Meet Noni, the friendliest pony you'll ever meet, and her friends Coco and Dave as they explore the farm where they all live in rollicking rhyme.

Alison Lester is one of Australia's best-selling and most-loved children's authors. Her books are favourites with children and adults around the world. 

Board book. 1+

Vendor: Books
Type: Books
Price: 17.00

Poor Duncan just wants to colour. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: his crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from colouring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking as each believes he is the true colour of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best?

Kids will be imagining their own humorous conversations with crayons and colouring a blue streak after sharing laughs with Drew Daywalt and New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers.

Board book

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Play
Price: 20.00

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Gifts,Play
Price: 25.00

Imagine yourself deep in the jungle, under the sea, in a land of ice and snow, in the moonlit bush....

Then turn the page and discover all the animals living there.

A much-loved classic by Alison Lester, Imagine has delighted parents and children over many years. This special set includes the bestselling book and a 150 piece jigsaw puzzle of the moonlit Australian bush.

Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type: Brands,Play
Price: 30.00

A beautifully illustrated, informative book for children introducing them to birds of all shapes, sizes and feathers. 

The Big Book of Birds is the first fact-filled book for children to explore the vast array of feathered friends that share our Earth.

Why is a flamingo pink? Can a parrot talk? Is a bald eagle really bald?

This follow-up to the hugely successful The Big Book of Bugs, The Big Book of Beasts and The Big Book of the Blue answers these questions and many more. It opens with introductory spreads explaining how to recognize different bird’s eggs, the bird family tree, why different species of birds have different beaks and feathers, and why some birds migrate and travel vast distances every year.
The conversational, funny text is also full of facts that will astonish children and adults, and accompanied by Yuval Zommer's colourful illustrations.

Hardback. 62 pages.

Vendor: Thames & Hudson
Type:
Price: 30.00

The Big Book of Belonging is for all the children who like to climb trees, run barefoot, splash in paddles, search for bugs, sing with the birds, taste snowflakes and count the stars. By placing children at the heart of the natural world, the book celebrates our connection with planet Earth and reveals the often surprising similarities between humans, animals and plants.

Illustrated in Yuval Zommer’s inimitable style and packed with quirky natural history facts, readers will discover that sea otters hold hands just like humans do; hermit crabs have homes; and that butterflies also have bedtimes. They’ll learn that just as humans have unique fingerprints, zebras have different stripes, cowrie shells have distinct spots and that no two snowflakes are identical.

The book’s uplifting message will inspire environmentalists young and old alike – we all belong to nature, and nature belongs to us all.

64 pages. Hardcover.

Vendor: Milestone Press
Type: Brands,Gifts
Price: 7.50

This Master Plan Budget booklet will keep you on track financially.  

It fits in the back of your Master Plan Diary and includes handy sections like:  

Savings Goals / Amounts, Monthly glance, Expected Monthly Expenses, Monthly Budgets / Monthly Savings, Passwords

Vendor: Books
Type:
Price: 15.00

Sometimes a little CHANGE can open your world to BIG possibilities. You see, high-up was safe since he liked a slow pace, While the ground down below seemed a frightening place. Too fast and too loud and too big and too strange. Nope. Kevin preferred not to move or to change. Kevin the koala loves every day to be the same, where it’s snug and safe. But when change comes along, will Kevin embrace all the joys that come with trying something new? An inspiring rhyming to read aloud, by bestselling Love Monster creator Rachel Bright and Frog on a Log? illustrator Jim Field that empowers young readers to face change with courage and delight.

Board Book

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Play
Price: 39.95

This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely successful Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, the bestselling book that changed countless boys’ lives around the world and gave them the confidence to be themselves. What have the footballer Kylian Mbapp, the philosopher Socrates and the singer Shawn Mendes all got in common? All three of them defied expectations – going against the grain and pursuing their dreams – despite a seemingly impossible barrage of obstacles and difficulties. Their stories are incredible, as are those of the tap-dancer Evan Ruggiero, the Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri, and the other inspirational boys who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. It’s books like these that can make a huge difference to parents and their children’s lives. In this day and age, any publication that shows how we can triumph in the face of adversity and prejudice deserves to be read over and over again.

 Hardcover

Vendor: Books
Type: Books
Price: 30.00

This is the perfect gift - five of Dr. Seuss' best-loved tales in one attractive book. A wonderful gift, featuring five of the hilarious classics that made Dr. Seuss one of the best-loved children's authors: "The Cat in the Hat", "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back", "Green Eggs and Ham", "Fox in Socks", and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic, "Cat in the Hat", and ranking among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.

Hardcover

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Play
Price: 25.00

Do you have a tractor-loving little person in your house? Me too!

When Frankie McGee insists on borrowing yet another book about tractors, his mum crumbles. She begs him to read a book about something else – cars, planes, cranes, trains – anything! Frankie launches into all of the various, glorious factors that make up the love that he has for all tractors – but will he be able to bring his mum around?  

With irresistible rhyming text by award-winning author Davina Bell and unforgettable illustrations by Jenny Lovlie, this story is sure to charm and amuse the whole family.

Hardcover

Vendor: Books
Type: Play
Price: 25.00

Vendor: Books
Type: Brands,Play
Price: 39.95

 New York Times bestseller!

Boys can be anything they want to be! This timely book joins and expands the gender-role conversation and gives middle-grade boys a welcome alternative message: that masculinity can mean many things. You won’t find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here.

In Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, author Ben Brooks - with the help of Quinton Wintor’s striking full-colour illustrations - offers a welcome alternative narrative: one that celebrates introverts and innovators, sensitivity and resilience, individuality and expression.

It’s an accessible compilation of 75 famous and not-so-famous men from the past to the present day, every single one of them a rule-breaker and stereotype-smasher in his own way. Entries include Frank Ocean, Salvador Dali, Beethoven, Barack Obama, Ai Weiwei, Jesse Owens, and so many more-heroes from all walks of life and from all over the world.

 Hardcover