Books in Templar Classics series

Why, sometimes I ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. When Alice steps through the looking-glass in the drawing room one snowy, drowsy afternoon, she finds herself in a peculiar, topsy-turvy world where chess pieces walk about, flowers talk and nothing is quite as it seems. Alice is caught up in a bizarre chess game and encounters some rather eccentric characters, both new and familiar including the argumentative Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the Lion and the Unicorn, the nonsensical White Queen and the quick-tempered Red Queen. The story features the poems, The Walrus and the Carpenter and Jabberwocky , which have become just as well known as Alice s adventures themselves. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll s first Alice book, the award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen has illustrated its enchanting sequel in this sumptuous volume. Full of anarchic humour, witty rhymes and sparkling word play, it will delight new readers and devoted fans.

Winner of the New York Times Book Review Children's Book of the Year, 1966.Commended title, American Library Association, 1966.'The author has the power to get inside his characters.'—The New York Times'Conveys with insight the reactions, fears, perplexities, ignorances and behavior of children in a real adult world.' Washington Post‘The novel is a chronicle of fire and panic, of intense and remarkable perception, and of almost inexhaustibly vivid descriptive language unforgettable.’ Wall St Journal‘The description of the fire and the atmosphere of the day are so vividly described deservedly classic story.’ ReadPlusIt's hot and dry on Ash Road, where three boys taste their first independence, camping without adults. When they accidentally light a bushfire, none could guess how far it would go. They are forced to face the consequences with only each other to depend on.Ivan Southall was Australia's first recipient of the Carnergie Medal. An icon of children's literature, he wrote over sixty books. He died in 2008.

When the Egret's pilot dies suddenly mid-flight, six teenagers, the only passengers, face a terrifying situation. Gerald has had some flying lessons, but has never flown alone and never landed a plane. Lost and afraid, they fly on as the fuel gauge drops and night closes in. If they do somehow land safely how will they find their way home?To the Wild Sky follows Ash Road and Hills End in Ivan Southall's acclaimed trilogy of novels about teenagers who must rely on their wits to survive.Ivan Southall was the first Australian to be awarded the Carnegie Medal.

The main character of this story is Mary Lennox. She has been born to rich British parents that are currently living in India. Her parents were busy with extravagent parties and left Mary with her ayah for most of the time. Orphaned by an outbreak of cholera, she is sent back to England to be cared for by her mother's sister's husband, Archibald Craven, a reclusive widower. Craven's wife, Lilian, passed away ten years earlier. He is still mourning that loss. To escape his sad memories, he constantly travels abroad, leaving the entire manor, including Mary, to be cared for by his housekeeper, Mrs. Medlock. The only person who has any time for the little girl is the chambermaid Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about a locked up garden, surrounded by a wall that was the late Mrs. Craven's favorite place. No one has entered the garden since she died because Archibald locked its entrance and buried the key. He hasn't told anyone where it is.