Discovery HSC English: Discovery Picture Books

A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world of where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker pen in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon and a flying carpet which carry her on a spectacular journey to an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart's desire?

Thomas can't see colours, but he can hear them and smell them and touch them and taste them. Now you can try to see the world the way Thomas sees it.

Now that school is over, Wesley needs a summer project. He's learned that each civilization needs a staple food crop, so he decides to sow a garden and start his own - civilization, that is. He turns over a plot of earth, and plants begin to grow. They soon tower above him and bear a curious-looking fruit. As Wesley experiments, he finds that the plant will provide food, clothing, shelter, and even recreation. It isn't long before his neighbors and classmates develop more than an idle curiosity about Wesley - and exactly how he is spending his summer vacation.

The story traces the life of Morris Lessmore, a writer obsessed with books who is swept away in a storm and finds himself in a house inhabited by a host of friendly books. Morris cares for the books, in turn the books care for him as he ages.

Before the alphabet was invented, life was very orderly though not so exciting, until five friends set out to create something new.

Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo but mostly it spends its time in the basement. It doesn't visit Laszlo in his room. Until one night it does ... Join a brave boy on his journey to meet the dark, and see why it will never bother him again.

Press here. That's right. Just press the yellow dot and turn the page. The single touch of a finger sparks a whimsical dance of colour and motion in this joyful celebration of the power of the imagination.

Flotsam: Something that floats. If it floats in the ocean, it may wash up on the beach, where someone may find it and be astonished, and share the discovery with someone else - as David Wiesner shares it with you.

This fantastic tale begins with a school trip to the Empire State Building. There a boy makes friends with a mischievous little cloud, who whisks him away to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7 (the region that includes New York City). The clouds are bored with their everyday shapes, so the boy obligingly starts to sketch some new ones. . . .

This bestselling book features a collection of favorite I Spy riddles that send readers searching for hidden objects in 13 photographs with a mystery theme.

Join Wally on his worldwide hike! He's hidden in every scene - along with lots of friends!

It lasts only 3 seconds. Which is enough time for a particle of light to travel 900,000 kilometres. And as you follow it on its journey - through scenes of deadly drama and seeming innocence, as far as deep space and back - look into the blind spots and corners. This title lets you be the detective to find the solution.

Zoom in - what do you see? Zoom out - what do you see? Just when you think you know where you are, guess again. Nothing is as it seems - and there's nothing to do but hang on tight as this tilt-a-whirl world goes by.

The Jolly Postman delivers cards and letters to various fairy-tale characters. He has a letter of apology for the three bears from Goldilocks, a postcard from Jack for the giant, a solicitor's letter on behalf of Little Red Riding-Hood for the wolf who ate grandma, and so on. There are six envelopes in the book, each containing letters, cards, etc.

Inside each bright box are bugs to count from one to ten.

A newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food.

Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep?

In Spot's first adventure children can join in the search for the mischievous puppy by lifting the flaps on every page to see where he is hiding.

The day after by birthday party Kipper found a blue balloon in the garden, which was odd because the balloons at my party were red and white...

When you are on holidays and it's too cold to swim, what can you do? You can look for crabs But search carefully, they are very hard to find.

Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.

Three children discover a magical bag of chalk on a rainy day