New Releases by Pamela Allen

John and June spy a lovely, juicy pear high up in a pear tree. Jane climbs to the top of the tree, only to fall into the pond when John cant hold the ladder steady. Eventually, with the help of a bird, they reach the pear and share it happily. In rhyming text and illustrated in full colour.

When a straggling, inattentive duckling falls down a deep hole in the road passersby use their ingenuity and join together to come to the rescue. Suggested level: preschool, junior.

Children''s picture book about Old Tom and his efforts to milk the temperamental cow, Belinda. Colourfully illustrated by the author, winner of the Children''s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award 1983 and 1984, and twice winner of the New South Wales Premier''s Award for the best children''s book. Other books include TWho Sank the Boat?'' TMy Cat Maisie'', and TBertie and the Bear''. The book was shortlisted for the 1993 Children''s Book Council Picture Book Award.

The reader is invited to guess who causes the boat to sink when five animal friends of varying sizes decide to go for a row.

Christina and Black Dog do everything together until Christina becomes obsessed with a wonderful blue bird she thinks she has seen and Black dog takes desperate measures to regain her attention.

Andrew has no one to play with until a ginger cat arrives at his house and he learns how to be friends.

After claiming the treasure that he and his brother haul out of the ocean, Herbert spends the rest of his life fearfully guarding it from possible thieves.

A royal household is disrupted when a lion runs off with the baby.

Who sank the boat? Was it the cow or the donkey or the sheep with her knitting? Surely it wasn’t the tiny little mouse? Winner of the 1983 Australian Picture Book of the Year Award, this wonderfully illustrated book is designed for sharing aloud and will make children giggle as they guess which animal spoilt a day’s rowing by sinking the boat.