The Smallest Bilby And The Midnight Star

Every night the smallest bilby looks up at the midnight sky and searches for his favourite star - the smallest one that hangs close to the edge of the sky. Every night she shines down on him. But one night, fearful that she may go away and never come back, the bilby decides to give her something to remember him always.

A picture book about friendship.

The lives and futures of children and animals are linked to environmental challenges associated with the Anthropocene and the acceleration of human-caused extinctions. This book sparks a fascinating interdisciplinary conversation about child–animal relations, calling for a radical shift in how we understand our relationship with other animals and our place in the world. It addresses issues of interspecies and intergenerational environmental justice through examining the entanglement of children’s and animal’s lives and common worlds. It explores everyday encounters and unfolding relations between children and urban wildlife. Inspired by feminist environmental philosophies and indigenous cosmologies, the book poses a new relational ethics based upon the small achievements of child–animal interactions. It also provides an analysis of animal narratives in children’s popular culture. It traces the geo-historical trajectories and convergences of these narratives and of the lives of children and animals in settler-colonised lands. This innovative book brings together the fields of more-than-human geography, childhood studies, multispecies studies, and the environmental humanities. It will be of interest to students and scholars who are reconsidering the ethics of child–animal relations from a fresh perspective.

Bonnie Bennet wanted to be the best at something. She lives on a farm on the far edge of town. Bonnie loves the farm and shares with the farm animals her burning desire to be the best. When her teacher announces the best pet competition Bonnie is determined to get a pet and to teach it to do the best tricks ever.But nothing ever turns out as intended and when the farm animals come to the aid of the circus, Bonnie's real talents are revealed.

Serena Sweetmay is Perfect. Serena Sweetmay is beautiful and clever; she's good at school, is always chosen for the best parts in any activity, and so when Aimee’s class is selected to perform the school’s Christmas play, everyone knows exactly who’s going to be the star of the show. But for once, just once, Aimee wants to shine, and to do that she has to out-angel the perfect Serena Sweetmay. Luckily though, she has a plan, so nothing can go wrong. Can it?

The Childrens Book Review Index contains review citations to give your students and researchers access to reviewers comments and opinions on thousands of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media intended and/ or recommended for children through age 10. The volume makes it easy to find a review by authors name, book title or illustrator and fully indexes more than 600 periodicals.