Lamont Standing Order - 2020 Primary Non-Fiction

OCTOBER

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals

By Sami Bayly

Dangerous animals get a bad rap, but this beautifully illustrated encyclopaedia helps us appreciate ... Read More

Saltie Mumma

By Sandra Kendell

Way up north in the Territory, scary creatures swim in the rivers and the sea. BIG enough, FIERCE en ... Read More

A World Full of Materials

By John Lesley

Find out why choosing the right material for a structure is an important job for engineers. Even in ... Read More

Hold On!

By Gina M Newton
Illustrated by Rachel Tribout

Have you ever seen a fish that could do a handstand? This is the story of a quirky and primitive lit ... Read More

Show me the Money

By Sue Lawson

The next time you hand over your money, take a moment to really look at that coin or note. Why is th ... Read More

Shirley Purdie

By Shirley Purdie

I am Shirley Purdie. This is my story Ngayin-ga Birrmarriyan-nga Berrembi jarragbe ngaginybe. My mot ... Read More

Australia’s Wild Weird Wonderful Weather

By Stephanie Owen Reeder
Illustrated by Tania Mccartney

Did you know that, in 2009, a massive dust storm in Australia blew red dust and sand all the way to ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

The Bushfire Book

By Polly Marsden
Illustrated by Chris Nixon

An accessible and reassuring picture book that teaches children what they need to know about bushfir ... Read More

Bushfires in Australia

By John Lesley

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous Australians developed ways of managing bushfires, so that the lan ... Read More

Electricity and Modern Technology

By John Lesley

The existence of the whole universe including us and our daily lives can be described with the scien ... Read More

The Forest in the Tree

By Ailsa Wild, Aviva Reed, Briony Barr and Gregory Crocetti

This is a story about trees and fungi connected through a 'wood wide web' — told by one tiny fungal ... Read More

AUGUST

Dry To Dry

By Pamela Freeman and Liz Anelli

This Nature Storybook is a stunningly illustrated and extraordinary story of the yearly weather cycl ... Read More

Vote for Me

By Krys Saclier

The students of Mount Mayhem School are fed up. Their uniform is hideous, the tuckshop is full of he ... Read More

I Want To Be An Engineer

By Samantha Dungey
Illustrated by Hilary Bruce

I Want to be an Engineer celebrates some of the everyday engineering marvels and how they change our ... Read More

JUNE

Ocean Animals

By Blake Chapman
Illustrated by Astred Hicks

Dive in to the incredible world of ocean animals! Ocean animals are truly awesome. They come in ever ... Read More

Robots

By Charles Hope

Robots are a fascinating and divisive subject. Many people believe they are destined to make our liv ... Read More

Little Lon

By Andrew Kelly

Little Lon scrapes back the layers of history to show how people lived and worked in a post settleme ... Read More

Matthew Flinders

By Carole Wilkinson

Matthew Flinders was a country boy who wanted to be a sailor. He lived at a time when ocean voyages ... Read More

Who Am I?

By Philip Bunting
Illustrated by Philip Bunting

Am I my body? Am I my mind? Who am I? Take a trip into deepest inner space to answer one of life's b ... Read More

MAY

Your Planet Needs You!

By Philip Bunting

Nobody really likes to think about rubbish (pee-ew!,. But whether you know it or not, waste is part ... Read More

Our Home, Our Heartbeat

By Adam Briggs
Illustrated by Kate Moon and Rachael Sarra

Adapted from Briggs’ celebrated song 'The Children Came Back', Our Home, Our Heartbeat is a celebrat ... Read More

Super Sporty Girls

By Penguin Random House Australia

What sport will I try? I love to run, kick a ball and jump. I'm happy gliding through the water too ... Read More

Kookaburra

By Claire Saxby and Tannya Harricks

An exciting new addition to the narrative nonfiction series Nature Storybooks, about kookaburras. In ... Read More

APRIL

Strangers on Country

By David Hartley and Kirsty Murray
Illustrated by Dub Leffler

Giom, Anco and Duramboi are the names of just three young shipwreck survivors and convict escapees w ... Read More

A New Prayer for the Animals

By Mark Wilson

From the oceans and coastal plains to the African Veldt, we share this earth with many unique and wo ... Read More

Under Your Feet

By Royal Horticultural Society

Did you know that worm poo in soil helps plants grow? Find out why, and many more amazing facts abou ... Read More

Survivor Kids

By Peter Macinnis

It seems almost second nature for many Australians to go wandering out into the bush, but how many w ... Read More

MARCH

Anzac Girl

By Kate Simpson
Illustrated by Jess Racklyeft

It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all sh ... Read More

How to Make a Better World

By Keilly Swift

If you are a kid with big dreams and a passion for what is right, you're a world-changer in the maki ... Read More

Australia's Amazing Inventions

By Frances Payne

From the scientific discoveries made by the Indigenous Australians living thousands of years ago, ri ... Read More

Australia's Intriguing Past

By Frances Payne

Convicts and bushrangers, pirates and princes, they have all had a part to play in Australia's past. ... Read More

Australia's Remarkable Places

By Frances Payne

Where can you go to see what the Earth might have looked like billions of years ago? Outback Austral ... Read More

Australia's Extraordinary Animals

By Frances Payne

Everyone connects kangaroos with Australia, but there are many more weird and wonderful creatures to ... Read More

FEBRUARY

I Heart the World

By Tania McCartney

Now more than ever, children are encouraged to value and appreciate our world. I Heart the World is ... Read More

Will the Wonderkid

By Stephanie Owen Reeder

It’s December 1914, and young Will Hutchison heads off into the South Australian desert in search of ... Read More

What's the Point of Maths?

By DK

Incredible historical and contemporary stories explore the often surprising origins of the maths we ... Read More

Colossal Book of Colours

By Lorna Hendry

The Colossal Book of Colour takes a broad and fascinating look at the science behind the paints and ... Read More

Ready, Set, Code!

By Heather Catchpole and Nicola O’Brien

Are you ready to learn about real technology and make it yourself? Ready, Set, Code! explains how cu ... Read More

Australian Outback

By John Lesley

The Outback is not a place with any definite boundary. When Australians refer to the Outback they me ... Read More