The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books
Written by Lara Cain Gray and illustrated by Lorena Carrington and Timothy Ide
HB | 297 x 210 | ISBN: 9781922858504 | $34.99
Non-Fiction Book for Adults | MidnightSun Publishing | 1 September 2024
Distributed by NewSouth Books
A picture book is a book with pictures, but it’s so much more than that! This A to Z guide helps you level up your picture book reading experiences, empowering yourself and the young readers in your world to dive deeper into what makes a great picture book great. With histories, insights and handy talking points for shared reading, come and explore the complexities of modern picture books. Discover the science of page layouts, the purpose of rhyme, and why our favourites linger in our hearts and minds for life. Let’s read! Read the rest of this entry »
Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures
by Timothy Ide
HB 72 | 245 x 280 | ISBN: 9781922858177 | $34.99
Picture book for all ages
MidnightSun Publishing | November 2023
Distributed by NewSouth Books
Take a monstrous journey through the Middle Ages to discover creatures both familiar and unfamiliar.
Explore the hazards of medieval life at the claws, paws and fangs of dragons, wyverns, cockatrices, lamias, manticores, ghouls and Read the rest of this entry »
King of the Outback
The Story of Sidney Kidman
by Kristin Weidenbach, Illustrated by Timothy Ide
HB 32 | 260 x 290 | ISBN 9781925227246
$26.99 | Non-fiction picture book
MidnightSun Publishing | May 2017
Distributed by NewSouth Books
From the award-winning writer/illustrator team who brought you Tom the Outback Mailman. Sidney Kidman runs away from home at thirteen and travels to the outback on a one-eyed horse. He finds stray cows in the scrub, swims across rivers by hanging on to a bullock’s tail and dreams of having the biggest herd of cattle in Australia. Many years later, when the workers on Sid’s cattle station organise a giant rodeo for Sid’s birthday party the cattle from the bush take fright in the city. People panic and horses bolt. Can the Kidman stockmen save the day? Read the rest of this entry »
Local Colour – Adelaide
by Sally Heinrich
32 Pages | 297 X 360 soft cover | ISBN 978-1-925227-06-2 | $24.99 | Non-Fiction | MidnightSun Publishing | Dec 2015
Join the colouring craze and learn a little about beautiful Adelaide and its surrounds while you unleash your creativity in bringing each of these intricate drawings to life with colour. Read the rest of this entry »
Rock Star: The story of Reg Sprigg — an outback legend
by Kristin Weidenbach
Oil; uranium; geology; conservation; these are the catch-cries of our times and Reg Sprigg embodies them all. Reg is regarded as the greatest geologist of his generation and one of the best Australia has produced.
By the age of 30 he had discovered the oldest fossils in the world and some of its deepest under-sea canyons. He had worked at Australia’s first two uranium mines and Read the rest of this entry »
The Ludic Mode of Pangamonium
by Zanesh Catkin
The Ludic Mode of Pangamonium is an exegesis of the novel Pangamonium. It explores the ludic mode, which it considers an open play of signification characterised by freedom, reflexivity and subversion, and it explores the work of Nabokov, Calvino and Borges to Read the rest of this entry »