These are a series of eight books that tell the story of Australia. They are exciting, easy to read, as accurate as I can make them, great fun for kids and adults too, and have the hilarious cartoons by Peter Sheehan.
So far they include:

Shipwreck, Sailors & 60,000 Years: 1770 and All that Happened Before Then
Telling it like it really was - true-blue Aussie history!

The Indigenous people of Australia have lived here for tens of thousands of years. They survived the ice age and ancient global warming. They saw oceans sink and oceans rise. They watched the mega-beasts disappear and dingoes arrive. Theirs is the oldest civilisation in the world.
Then along came the Dutch. And the Portuguese. And the British. Things would never be the same again.

Come with Jackie French and Peter Sheehan on a voyage back through time. It's history as you've never seen it.

Grim Crims and Convicts
It was an incredible idea - to found a colony of convicts eight months' sail away from Great Britain. In a land with no cities, no farms, no rich spices. Just savage huts. No country had ever thought to send a colony so far away. Why on earth would you bother?
Rotters and Squatters Cannibal convicts, murdering squatters, sea captains who kidnapped their crew, poor farmers forced off their land- they had all come to the colonies of New South Wales and Van Dieman's land to make better lives for themselves. And now there were new colonies and farms spreading around Australia.

Join Jackie French and Peter Sheehan on a trip back through time to meet the rotters and squatters, the brave and the bold in the next fascinating and hilarious book in the Fair Dinkum Histories story of Australia. It's history as you've never seen it.

Gold, Graves and Glory

Swaggies, Blood and Nationhood

The Fascinating History of Your Lunch (Harper Collins)
The history of the world is in your lunch box!
Who were the first farmers...where did pizza come from..and icecream...and why weren't olden days kids allowed to drink fruit juice? A hilarious but insightful look at the most interesting part of civilization- it's food!