Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books

*This little piggy went singing This little piggy stayed home This little piggy had plum pudding This little piggy had none And this little piggy went jingle, jingle, jingle all the way home.* Meet five little pigs who are full of life and all the excitement of Christmas!...

Old Pig and Granddaughter have lived together for a long, long time. They share everything, including the chores, until the day when Old Pig does not get up as usual for breakfast. Calmly she pays her bills and puts her affairs in order. Then she takes Granddaughter on a last, long walk - looking...

'My daddy said, On the day you were born, I wrapped you up warm and took you for a walk to see the world . . . 'My daddy said, On the day you were born, I put you back in your mother's arms, and that night we were the world.' A celebration of the glories of existence, the world seen afresh on the birth of a new baby.

Barnaby is a pavement artist. This morning he started drawing me. I have a head that can think, eyes that can see, ears that can hear and legs that can run. Best of all, I have a heart that can feel. Thank you, Barnaby. Award-winning writer Margaret Wild compresses epic themes into a poetic, poignant story, vividly brought to life by Mandy Ord's distinctive, dynamic art.

Here's a racy review of rubbish and recycling through the ages, from the times when pigs were let loose in the street to clean up garbage to today's high-tech methods for re-using glass and plastic. Dig up the dirt on muckrakers and mudlarks. Dive into drains and delve into dumps to find out the lore...

One climbed UP the tree and two came DOWN. But who is at the billabong, waiting to have a party?

This book will make you giggle every time you read it! It takes a very simple concept - what would happen if you mixed an animal with an object? - adds some kooky illustrations and a strong design sense to create a book with lots of mixed-up animals and quirky visual humour. Try to make up your own animal pairs! Addictively good fun. Find the app at parrotcarrot.com

In this book you'll meet a hideous creature that can live for a month without its head, a beetle that blasts its victims with toxic bottom spray, weird beings that breathe through their skin, five-eyed monsters that vomit on their prey to turn them into soup, and much, much more! Bug your friends with monstrous trivia and nightmarish facts.

Violet calls me Marvellous. My real name is Marvin. Mum reckons me and Violet are like two peas in a pod. It's true. We go together like fish and chips, hops and skips, the OO in Moo. We lived next door to each other until, one day, Violet left and went to the moon.

Count the busy wrens on their fine stick legs, the bowerbird's treasures, his bottle tops and pegs. How many potaroos? How many pies? How many gum leaves? How many flies? Now count the strawberries on that luscious pavlova. Quick! Count the lamingtons. Oh! None left...

Psst! It's true! This is the best book on CRIME you'll ever read! Did you know that maggots can help solve crimes? That right-handed criminals run away to the left when they leave a crime scene? That the people who are best at detecting lies are not police but mothers? Once you had to...

Pssst! It's true! This is the best book on bones you'll ever read! Did you know that Santa Claus once punched a bishop? Have you heard of weaver's bottom and housemaid's knee? What's an ossuary? Bone up on bunions, explore X-rays, find your femur. Knuckle down to the facts on people...

PSST! It's True! This is the best book on the SUPERNATURAL you'll ever read! What would you do if furniture threw itself downstairs and fires broke out in the cupboards? Or if you saw a festering green hand appear behind you in a mirror? In this engrossing book about the supernatural, Meredith...

It was difficult to know when nightmares ended and the waking world began. Pan is still struggling to distinguish between her dreams and reality. When she wakes in the Infirmary her mind replays the sight of Nate running along the shoreline and the way his body froze and then flopped after...