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During 2021, Macinnis has republished revised versions of all of his out-of-print books. The website listed above tells you how to get them.

Happy grandfather, travels, writes for adults and youngsters, mainly history or science. Published by the National Library of Australia . Talks on ABC , translated into 7 other languages. Winner of the W.A. Premier's Prize for Children's Literature 2013 and other awards.

Writing blog Old Writer on the Block. Google it and say g'day!

McManly on most social media. His Kokoda Track: 101 Days was a 2008 Eve Pownall Honour Book in the CBCA 'Book of the Year' awards. His Australian Backyard Explorer was the 2010 Eve Pownall Book of the Year . In 2012, his Australian Backyard Naturalist won a Whitley award, and the WA Premier's Children's Literature Award in 2013. After a few busy years doing other stuff, his Australian Backyard Earth Scientist won the long-winded Educational Publishing Awards Australia prize for best "Student Resource – Arts/Science/Humanities/Social Sciences/Technologies/Health and Physical Education/Languages ".

He has had half a dozen titles rated as "Notable Books" by the Children's Book Council of Australia: that's equivalent to short listing.

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Peter Macinnis

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Books from Peter Macinnis

Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar

Bittersweet: The Story of Sugar

Mr Darwin's Incredible Shrinking World: science and technology in 1859

Kokoda Track: 101 Days

The Big Book of Australian History

Australian Backyard Explorer

100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs In History

Rockets: Sulfur, Sputnik and Scramjets

Australia's Pioneers, Heroes & Fools

The Monster Maintenance Manual: A Spotter's Guide

The Speed of Nearly Everything: From Tobogganing Penguins to Neutron Stars

Not Your Usual Australian Tales: a social history, from Invasion to Federation

Тихие Убийцы. Всемирная история ядов и отравителей

Not Your Usual Bushrangers

Australian Backyard Naturalist

Fasolka z Calabaru

The Desert

Curious Minds

The Rainforest

Not Your Usual Anthology of Verse