Best Selling Books by James McDonald

The Moon is beautiful to look at in the night sky, and it also plays an important part in the cycle of life on Earth. And maybe someday the Moon will be a place people call home.

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This second volume of McDonald''s history of the Canberra-Queanbeyan district, begins in 1824, when the first pastoralists appeared and concludes in 1861, the eve of Robertson''s land reforms. For the local Aboriginal bands, this was a catastrophe. For the British, it was about pastureland to feed the colony. McDonald covers the 1838-42 period, when the colony switched from a convict model to free immigration. It was also a time of debilitating drought and economic ruin. He also examines the power of dominant family blocs (Campbells, Palmers, Murrays, Johnstons, Wrights, etc.), the uneasy imposition of British law on the ''frontier'', the gold rushes of the 1850s, and the ever-increasing pressure for political reform. Canberra II drills down into the lives of ordinary people. It reveals some of the more elusive topics: the stories of women, children, LGBQTI+ individuals, the working poor, and the earliest ethnic households and enclaves. Along the way, McDonald breaks new ground. A new pastoral chronology is constructed, acts of pastoral bastardry are exposed, Canberra''s female bushranger, Mrs Winter, is unearthed, the Anglican foundation myth is debunked, and he even asks whether AFL had its origins on the Molonglo.

After the battle of Culloden, the Duke of Cumberland, called ''Sweet William'' by his admirers, sent his army on an orgy of destruction through the Highlands of Scotland. Arthur McKinnon was just sixteen when he saw the redcoats murder his father, rape his mother, burn his house to the ground, scar him for life and deport him halfway around the world into servitude. But Arthur had an indomitable spirit and set out to overcome everything and anyone that stood in the way of his freedom.

It''s Saint Patrick''s Day, and Wilford has an important lesson to learn with help from his best friend Blue. Goofy, games, and sharing shamrocks with friends are just some of the celebrations in this funny animal book for young children about Saint Patrick''s Day. Wilford decides that sneaking up and startling friends on the farm is a fun way to celebrate Saint Paddy''s Day. With help from his best buddy Blue, it doesn''t take long for Wilford to understand that having fun at the expense of someone else isn''t very nice and can come with consequences.It''s Saint Patrick''s Day at the farm and Farmer McDonald is ready to decorate. He starts with a nice green bow for his favorite sheep, Wilford. What Farmer McDonald doesn''t realize is the chain of events set off by the fun of wearing green on this favorite holiday.

For children in preschool and kindergarten, at the very beginning stage of learning to read and write, "I Am the Alphabet" teaches one of the most important core concepts for success: What is the Alphabet and why is it important? Curious kids want to know.

Fifty years of happenings in factories crammed into forty hours. Some of these stories are funny, Some of them are sad. Some of them are tragic. Most of them are just plain stupid. All of them are true

Handwriting: A Practice Printing Workbook is a fun way to help children learn to recognize and print capital and lowercase letters and the numbers 1-20. Prepare your child for success in school with letter tracing and essential learning activities that teach how to combine letters to make words and how to combine words to make sentences for a simple story.