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Here are twenty-one fascinating stories about the forgotten heroes of war: animals who have served beside Australian forces.

These are all animals that dazzle with their courage and loyalty – or sometimes just by being lovable. Whether it's a rooster guarding his battalion during the First World War or a mine-detecting dolphin in Iraq, they make the difficult lives of soldiers so much more bearable...

'What are they saying?' Isaac asked Taiata.
'They are calling us tupua . . . goblins and demons.'
'And what else?'
'They say they will come back and kill us all.'

When young Isaac Manley sailed on the Endeavour from England in 1768, no one on board knew if a mysterious southern continent existed in the vast Pacific Ocean. It would be a voyage full of uncertainties and terrors.

'I wonder what you've seen and done, Harriet, over all those years?' asks Ellie.

The Tortoise pokes her head a little and blinks one naughty eye.

Lucy has a garden filled with beautiful rainbow birds. She also has a tabby cat called Artemis, and one day . . .

POUNCE!

Lucy needs to stop Artemis catching the birds, but how? Will Artemis and the birds ever live together in peace?

Find out in this cheeky read-aloud tale by two of Australia's favourite creators of books for children.

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Lucy has a garden filled with beautiful rainbow birds.
She also has a tabby cat called Artemis, and one day . . .

POUNCE!

Lucy needs to stop Artemis catching the birds, but how?
Will Artemis and the birds ever live together in peace?

Find out in this cheeky read-aloud tale bt two of Australia's
favourite creators of books for children.

Visit anthonyhillbooks.com

On 28 June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne aboard the troopship Berrima – bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old.

Soldier Boy is Jim's extraordinary true story, the story of a young and enthusiastic school boy who became Australia's youngest known Anzac.

Four months after leaving his home country he would be numbered among the dead, just one of so many...

John Jagamarra grew up at the Pearl Bay Mission for Aboriginal children in the far north-west. It was beautiful there, but it wasn't home. This is a tale for everyone about the pain of separation, and the strength of the human spirit.

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The dark clouds returned and gathered about the boy. His eyes grew distant, and he began to tremble. He heard not only shells exploding, but the cries of dying men . . . He was stumbling over churned earth, looking into the face of an officer, bloodied red as the poppies, ripped apart in the Flanders mud . . .