Books by Marc Martin

A beautiful geographical story with lush landscapes and poetic text from an award-winning Australian illustrator. A River follows on from Marc Martin's incredible A Forest - winner of the 2013 Crichton Children's Illustration Award. There is a river outside my window. Where will it take me? So begins an imaginary journey from the city to the sea. From factories to farmlands, freeways to forest, each new landscape is explored through stunning illustrations and poetic text from this award-winning picture-book creator.

In this wonderfully illustrated celebration of the world we travel far and wide - to Hong Kong, the Amazon, Antarctica, India - from the villages, towns and cities where most people live, to the deserts and vast oceans that cover the surface of the planet.

Once there was a forest. One day people began cutting down the forest.

A stunning non-fiction book illuminating the secrets of animal camouflage with a search-and-find twist.Now you see them, now you don¿t. Cloaked in a riot of colour, pattern and texture are a dozen creatures ¿ from chameleons and polar bears to Gaboon vipers and mimic octopuses ¿ that have unique and impressive techniques for staying out of sight. As we travel around the planet, fact-packed pages for each of these twelve animals are interspersed with clever and beautifully illustrated search-and-find spreads that put readers¿ newfound knowledge of each elusive creature and its ecosystem to the test.

An enduring story of friendship, seagulls and chips.