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Popular Books By Graeme Base |
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Enigma: A Magical Mystery
Solve the mystery and enjoy the magic! |
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The Art of Graeme Base |
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Animalia
Graeme Base is a successful Australian author best known for his book Animalia published in 1986 |
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Eleventh Hour
This whodunit begins when 11 animals gather for an elaborate birthday celebration. Every page is filled with rhyming text and detailed illustrations, each containing cryptic visual clues and hidden messages. Sealed solution to the mystery in the back of the book. |
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The Water Hole
"The Water Hole" is a fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and art book. Graeme Base takes the reader on a journey of discovery, from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of the Australian outback. As one rhino gives way to two tigers, with three toucans waiting in the wings, the tale unfolds on many levels. Page by page the numbers increase as the animals come to their water hole to drink. But at the same time, the cast of frogs frolicking by the water hole is diminishing. What is going on? |
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The Sign of the Seahorse:
A Tale of Greed and High Adventure in Two Acts
In which the villainous Gropmund Grouper devises a dastardly scheme to rob the innocent folk of Reeftown of their homes and money, but is foiled by the efforts of the intrepid Pearl Trout, her fiery brother, Finneus, and brave Corporal Bert of the Soldiercrab Army. Graeme Base, who created Abrams' best-selling Animalia and The Eleventh Hour, now offers The Sign of the Seahorse, a sweeping drama of intrigue and excitement set in the beautiful but fragile underwater world of a coral reef. Beginning at the famous Seahorse Cafe, social hub of the Old Reef, The Sign of the Seahorse takes us on a great journey. We travel from the doomed coral gardens of Reeftown to a sunken wreck and an underwater junkyard, across the barren expanse of the Withered Plain, and into the vast, uncharted chasms of the Deep, before arriving finally at the utmost edge of the Great Continental Shelf. Readers of all ages will delight in the rhyming text and gloriously detailed illustrations of this undersea adventure. The wonderfully drawn characters will capture the imagination as The Sign of the Seahorse is enjoyed again and again.
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Truckdogs
Audio CD
The inhabitants of Hubcap, a remote country town in a place very like Australia, are a bizarre fusion of animal, mostly dog, and machine. Sparky and the Mongrel Pack are the bane of the lives of the respectable TruckDog citizens of Hubcap as they hoon around town squealing their wheels and causing mayhem, just as bored teenagers anywhere might. Though they are thrown out into the desert to fend for themselves, all is forgiven when they rescue the town from the petrol-thieving Mr Big and his RottWheelers. The clever use of language and the engaging caricatures of the TruckDogs in this comically inventive first novel by picture book writer Graeme Base will attract young teenagers to reading.
Awards: CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers 2004 Shortlist |
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Uno's Garden
Art + Arithmetic + Environmental Awareness=Graeme Base's latest masterpiece from the creator of the international best-sellers "Animalia, The Water Hole," and "Jungle Drums" .
Once again, beloved author Graeme Base introduces readers to a new world. And again, he interweaves the story with hidden images and mathematical problems (and solutions!), creating a book that can be read over and over, and at different levels for different ages.
When Uno arrives in the forest one beautiful day, there are many fascinating and extraordinary animals there to greet him -- and one entirely unexceptional Snortlepig. Uno loves the forest so much, he decides to live there. But, in time, a little village grows up around his house. Then a town, then a city . . . and soon Uno realizes that the animals and plants have begun to disappear.
"Uno's Garden" is a moving and timely tale about how we all unknowingly affect the environment around us, just by being there -- and how we can always learn from our mistakes and find ways of doing things better. It's an illuminating blend of storybook, puzzle book, and math book.
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