Books published by publisher CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS

Tomorrow is Bruno's last day of school for the year. But the full moon makes everything strange. Granny gives him Bill's Big Book of Bunyips to read. Will this explain why there is fur growing down his arms, and who keeps painting the funny faces and breaking the farm fences? Bruno's neighbours, the Stickwhistles, want to drain his beloved swamp to build their pineapple cannery. To save the swamp, Bruno talks to the animals and climbs the Big Pimple to find out who he really is.

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONSOnce upon a time, there were two dogs... They were nearly human - they did many things just like us and they could even talk.So begins the story of Sootie & Gemma and their many adventures designed for pre-schoolers and kindergarten levels and those of us who are still young at heart.The educational SERIES is designed with some volumes for teaching, while others are simply bedtime stories. All provide a simple means of learning about Australia and its native birds and animals. Sootie & Gemma visit fun places and make friends with other dogs and kangaroos, wallabies and echidnas, lorikeets and kookaburras, and many other unique birds and animals. The current books include Sootie & Gemma - Our First Book English/Chinese/Dutch & shortly Japanese Sootie & Gemma - At the Seaside English/Chinese/Dutch & shortly Japanese Coming in 2012 Sootie & Gemma - And the Kangaroos Sootie & Gemma - At the Zoo In 2013 Sootie's Counting Book Gemma's Alphabet Book Sootie & Gemma - In SydneyThe program is a charitable project where profits are donated to an appropriate organization caring for the welfare of animals generally and dogs in particular. The Author donates her royalties to the same causes in the country of sale. Winner of the 2011 GOLDEN PAWS AWARD for the first volume, three books are published each year in English and most will be translated into Traditional Chinese for similar programs in China, Taiwan and Singapore. Similar programs are planned for translation into Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. The full-colour photographic books are distributed in print and digital formats online, through dog lovers and the organisations they support.How to help our dogs around the world!Donate by buying and giving the books away to your local children's hospital, school, pre-school or just your children or grandchildren. Make a child happy!

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Noveletta ImprintFRIENDSHIP SERIES BOOK TWO – RECIPE FOR TROUBLEI wake to the smell of ginger and garlic and the sizzle of oil. Mmm …breakfast. I turn my head towards the kitchen sounds. Oww! Ohhh! My head. I try to sit up, to put my head in my hands. No go.And my bed seems to be rocking up and back, up and back, making me feel dizzy and sick.Where am I? And how did I get here? My head starts throbbing and my eyes ache, so I close them against the bright sunlight creeping through a crack in the timber wall.I hear the sound of bare feet slapping on the timber floor. Then a shadow stands over me. It’s a woman, with an oversized T-shirt over her rolled up pants. She smiles at me, showing big gaps in her teeth.‘You wan’ blekfas?’ she asks...

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONSOnce upon a time, there were two dogs... They were nearly human - they did many things just like us and they could even talk.So begins the story of Sootie & Gemma and their many adventures designed for pre-schoolers and kindergarten levels and those of us who are still young at heart.The educational SERIES is designed with some volumes for teaching, while others are simply bedtime stories. All provide a simple means of learning about Australia and its native birds and animals. Sootie & Gemma visit fun places and make friends with other dogs and kangaroos, wallabies and echidnas, lorikeets and kookaburras, and many other unique birds and animals. The current books include Sootie & Gemma - Our First Book English/Chinese/Dutch & shortly Japanese Sootie & Gemma - At the Seaside English/Chinese/Dutch & shortly Japanese Coming in 2012 Sootie & Gemma - And the Kangaroos Sootie & Gemma - At the Zoo In 2013 Sootie's Counting Book Gemma's Alphabet Book Sootie & Gemma - In SydneyThe program is a charitable project where profits are donated to an appropriate organization caring for the welfare of animals generally and dogs in particular. The Author donates her royalties to the same causes in the country of sale. Winner of the 2011 GOLDEN PAWS AWARD for the first volume, three books are published each year in English and most will be translated into Traditional Chinese for similar programs in China, Taiwan and Singapore. Similar programs are planned for translation into Japanese, Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. The full-colour photographic books are distributed in print and digital formats online, through dog lovers and the organisations they support.How to help our dogs around the world!Donate by buying and giving the books away to your local children's hospital, school, pre-school or just your children or grandchildren. Make a child happy!

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONSNoveletta ImprintWhen the knock comes at the door, it’s a kind of relief. Mr. Cool opens the door and in walks trouble. A short, weedy Asian guy, about fifty, if I’m any good at judging age. He glances round the room, his eyes never resting on anything for more than a second. Taking it all in. He looks so frail that a puff of wind would blow him away. Yet he carries with him the kind of power that leaves a chill in the air, even after he’s passed by. His face is heavily lined from nose to mouth with cold eyes couched in the deep folds of his lids. His skin is yellow, like he never goes outside. I’ve stopped trying to get my bearings and I’m staring. Staring at the Face of Fear. This is what Jessica and I were running from, in my dream.......

Rebellious love. Hidden secrets. It may just take a city girl to save the family farm. Jane dreams of marrying her high school sweetheart and raising a brood of kids on his beloved family farm. Despite her parents’ disapproval and her boyfriend’s draft card, she exchanges hurried vows before he ships off to Vietnam. Back on the farm, Jane must fight her own battle with a mother-in-law who frowns on her big city upbringing. Determined to prove she’s cut out for country living, the fiery redhead rolls up her sleeves to explore every inch of the family business. Beneath creaking floorboards and layers of dust, she unearths ghostly secrets...and a rising mountain of debt that threatens to tear her dreams for the future apart. To save the homestead, she schemes up a plan to bring the old farm into the modern age and out of the hands of the collectors. Under the shadow of unsolved mysteries and the critical eye of her mother-in-law, can she hold on to a home-sweet-home worthy of her heroic husband...if he ever returns at all? Bradley Farm is the first stand-alone romantic mystery in a sweeping family saga series. If you like touching tales of young love, strong-willed heroines, and rustic country backdrops, then you’ll love Mary Jane Forbes’ story of finding her way home. Buy Bradley Farm to sow the seeds of a heartwarming family history today!

A Kindi Corner imprint OLIVER the OIL-PUMP is a fully illustrated children's book for the young at heart... and 7-14 year-olds. An ideal goodnight book.OLIVER is the story of a little oil pump sent off to Indonesia to pump oil out of the ground. He is different from other pumps - not only can he talk but he loves making friends.The story takes him from the factory where he was made in the USA, by train, container ship and a barge pulled by a tugboat, then by truck to an oilfield on Sumatra.Finally located deep in the jungle, he meets all manner of animals - elephants, a tiger, a cobra, birds and a mischievous monkey.For years, he happily pumps oil and entertains his friends until one day it all changes...