Mammals & Marsupials

• Bandicoots of Western Australia
• Our state animal the Numbat
• Animal and bird sounds from around the world

• Mundara - by Belinda Brooker - a great story about a little West Australian marsupial
• And Kangaroo played his Didgeridoo - by Nigel Gray
• What Mammal is that? - by Ronald Strahn - This book shows all the similar looking animals on one page
• Bandicoots and Bilbies of Australia - by Eleanor Stodart
• Australian Bats - by Jill Morris - This author has also written a book on Kangaroos, the pictures are beautiful and she covers bats from all over Australia
• Little Bat - by Tania Cox - A great story for younger readers learning to be patient with life..
• What a goat - by Errol Broome - This is a book that has humour as well as some sad moments, well worth a read.
• Eyes in the Dark -  by Kim Dale. -  Lift the flaps to see which Australian animal belongs to the eyes.  Beautiful pictures. (its a story book)

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Reptiles & Amphibians

•  Fun and games with frogs.
•  A fantastic site to look at so  many Western Australian snakes, lizards, geckos, monitors, croc's and turtles.

• Yakin, the swamp tortoise.
• Frogs of Western Australia - by Michael J Tyler - This is  a great book for students and covers all frogs from all over the entire state.
• Dangerous snakes of Western Australia - by G.E. Storr - Very useful tips and pictures for identifying nasty snakes to watch out for.

Birds

• Edwina the Emu - By Sheena Knowles - A funny book that delights young readers
• What Bird is that? - by Neville Cayley - This book shows where birds are found and how they nest.
• Birds of Prey, a field guide - by Frank T. Norris -  I found the silhouettes particularly useful.
• Handbook of West Australian birds vol.1 - by J.E. Johnstone - This book is not one you can carry around for too long, but it has good photos of the museum collection of bird eggs as well as other good identifying tips.
• Theres an Owl in the shower - by Jean Craighead George, Illustrated by Christina Herma Merrill - This book is about American Owls and shows strong emotions between timber (lumber) workers and conservationists with both sides learning it is all about saving the owls.

Creepy Crawlies

• Our Living World  - "Insects"  by Jenny Tesar -  This book shows how wonderfully everything it connected.
• Bugs - Uncover the creepy crawly world of minibeasts - a magazine series by Orbis publishing about insects of the world with heaps of pictures, fascinating facts and fun games.
• A guide to Wetland invertebrates of southwestern Australia - by J. Davis - this book is quite technical, but it may be useful for upper primary in identifying their local wetland insects.
• An exploration of the lives of the Insects Alien Empire - this book produced by the BBC is about insects all over the world and is great reading material.
• A Field Guide To Insects In Australia -  by Paul Zborowski and Ross Storey  - This is a good all round book and small enough to travel with photographs and good information.

Trees and Plants

• The Australian National Botanic Gardens - information and pictures of Australian plants

• Eucalypts, a guide. - by Patrick Brogan - This book covers Eucalyptus trees from all over Australia.  You may be able to match up the flowers and gum nuts you have found to see what species it is.
• A field guide to the larger fungi of the darling scarp - by Kevin Griffith - This book may help you identify fungi in your area around Perth.
• Kangaroo Paws & Cat Paws - A Natural History And Field Guide -  by Stephen D Hopper photographs by Babs and Bert Wells.  This is a little book packed with interesting information and photographs on kangaroo paws and catpaws.
• Wildflowers of Southern Western Australia" -by Margaret G Corrick Bruce A Fuhrer- This book is sorted by scientific family name which has its advantages and disadvantages.  If you don't know what family the plant you are looking for is in, then you will need to search the whole book however placing the plants together allows you to see all the similar genus at once.
• Orchids of South Western Australia -  by Noel Hoffman and Andrew Brown - This book has lots of photographs and information on lots of different orchid species.

Aboriginal Stories & legends

• Barn Barn, the bush trickster - by May O'Brien
• How Crows became black - by May O'Brien
• Why Emus can't fly - by May O'Brien

Geology

• Inland Seas - by Dr. T. Flannery and Paula Kendall
• Dinosaurs of Australia - John Long - This book has great photos of some Australian fossils.
• Fashioning the stone - by Alex Bevan of the Western Australian Museum - This is an easy to understand book explaining how gems are fashioned.
• Muttaburrasaurus An Australian Dinosaur In Its Time And Space- by Mary E White- This is a book set in the Cretaceous time in Australia. It shows you what it was like to be a Muttaburrasaurus at that time.

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