Best Selling Books by Gillian Rubinstein

Megan hates horses, but the rest of her family love them and her sister''s outgrown pony is ready and waiting for her to ride. So Megan confides in her best friend, Arabella, and soon she has a manageable pet which is much more to her liking. Suggested level: junior, primary.

It''s summer on Bondi Beach and Jack''s planning to spend most of it in the surf with his best friend Mikey. But he hasn''t counted on meeting a very determined mermaid, with marriage on her mind.

Bog, the kitkids'' guardian, is sick, and if Jake and Pete are to get him to the vet they''ll need money. So they set out on the search for money and a vet. Fascinated by the antics of Crow, Bat and some performing cats, Jake and Pete learn some tricks and put on a show, so that they can help Bog back to good health. More adventures and fun from this award-winning author and illustrator. ABOUT THE AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR Gillian Rubinstein and Terry Denton are award winners in their own right, and first teamed up for Mr Plunkett''s Pool, which won the Australian Multicultural Picture Book Award in 1993. Since then, they have collaborated on Jake and Pete, which has been adapted for theatre and toured nationally by Kim Carpenter''s Theatre of Image, Jake and Pete and the Stray Dogs, Jake and Pete and the Catcrowbats and, most recently, Jake and Pete and the Magpie''s Wedding. Ducky''s Nest is one of Gillian''s most appealing picture book texts to date and Terry''s illustrations are his most sensitive and lyrical since Felix and Alexander won him the Book of the Year Award in 1986.

Jake and Pete is a road story for cats. Having learnt cat talk, Gillian Rubinstein tells a wonderfully funny and scary tale of two kitkids who go out into the world and find it full of dogs, cars, brooms, boots and snakes - when all they really want is a mice home with a big fridge.

De 8-jarige Melanie is altijd een beetje bang om nieuwe dingen te doen, maar als het moet kan ze juist heel moedig zijn.

Lass and Laddie once belonged to a family, but now they''re stray dogs. They''re completely lost until they meet the two kitkids Jake and Pete. Suggested level: primary.