Australian children's books 2018
Marvellous Miss May: Queen of the Circus
In 1901, aged just seven, tiny contortionist May Zinga was given away to Wirth Brothers Circus by her desperate mother. Imagine Miss May's horror when the first thing the Wirths did was cut off all her long hair. Poor May had lost...
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Bouncing Back: An Eastern Barred Bandicoot Story
A beautifully illustrated story of this marsupial's plight and how it was saved from extinction.
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The Dog with Seven Names
The heart-warming story of a golden-eyed dog in a time of war.
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In the Lamplight
If you loved the award-winning Lighthouse Girl and Light Horse Boy, you will also love In the Lamplight, with its combination of evocative charcoal drawings, archival materials and Australian history.
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Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt
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Everything I’ve Never Said
A powerful novel about a subject rarely tackled - young people with disabilities and the families who love and support them.
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Swallow’s Dance
Leira's family flee to the island of Crete just before a huge volcanic eruption destroys their island and sends a tsunami to where they thought they had found safety. Another thrilling adventure by acclaimed author Wendy Orr.
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The Adventures of Catvinkle
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The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars
From the award-winning Jaclyn Moriarty comes a spellbinding tale of unlikely friendship, unexpected magic and competitive athletics.
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The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Provence (The Girl, the Dog and the Writer, Book 2)
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Fairytales for Feisty Girls
Renowned girl hero and feisty author Susannah McFarlane presents an illustrated collection of 'tilted' fairytales featuring girls with smarts.
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Leave Taking
A new novel about belonging, loss and love from the celebrated author of Star Jumps, the 2010 winner of the Prime Ministers Award for Children's Fiction.
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Sweet Adversity
There's never a good time to be orphaned - or abandoned ... especially when you are twelve years old, and it's the Great Depression.
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The Tales of Mr Walker
The Tales of Mr Walker contains four delightful stories inspired by the real-life Mr Walker, a Guide Dog Ambassador who now calls Park Hyatt Melbourne home.
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Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor Book 2)
Wunder is gathering in Nevermoor ...
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Tales from the Inner City
The visionary Shaun Tan returns to show us the soul-opening work he's been doing for the past five years.
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A Song Only I Can Hear
Rob has a huge crush on the new girl at school. But Rob is painfully shy and suffers severe panic attacks. How is her heart to be won? Another wonderful and heart-warming comedy drama from the award-winning author of My Life as an...
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Real Pigeons Eat Danger (Real Pigeons, Book 2)
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Cicada
The story of a cicada who works in an office, and all the people who don't appreciate him. The new picture book from multi-award-winner Shaun Tan, author of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and Rules of Summer.
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Help Around the House
Ludo helps other people. It's how he was brought up. When Dad is elected to Federal Parliament, Ludo grabs the chance to make Australia an even better place. But he soon discovers it's not the homeless of the national...
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Natural Born Loser
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Black Cockatoo
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If I Was Prime Minister
The Prime Minister's job is to make our country as good as it can be. But every Prime Minister Australia has ever had has been a grown-up! What if the grown-ups weren't in charge? What would kids do if they ran the country?
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Brimstone (The Firewatcher Chronicles, Book 1)
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The Mystery of the Squashed Cockroach: The Peski Kids Book 1
When April, Finn and Joe Peski come home from school one day to find their mother missing, they are forced to go and live with their dad. They haven't seen him in years, and to make matters worse, he lives in a small country town...
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A Day at the Show
Here is a story about family adventures, the magic of the show, and the joy of running one tiny car into another.
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Splashy Weird! (WeirDo Book 11)
The school swimming carnival is on and Weir isnt looking forward to ANY of it! Not the TINY cozzies! Or getting water UP HIS NOSE! And especially not the RACING! Can Weir win for his team? It wont be easy... but it will be...
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Lintang and the Brightest Star
A prophecy has been spoken. A monster has awoken.
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Pig the Grub
Eww! What a stinker! Pig isnt just the worlds greediest Pug, hes the DIRTIEST too. Its high time he had a bath! But try telling Pig that . . .
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Kakadu Calling: Stories for Kids
From Dinky the Dingo to Finding My Way Home, Jane Christophersen presents an engaging collection of short stories for young readers. Jane reveals the wonders of daily life in the bush and includes messages about caring for the...
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The Promise Horse
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Finch
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The Genie Rings (The Witching Hours Book 3)
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The 104-Storey Treehouse
Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has 13 new storeys. Prepare for more zany fun and crazy adventures!
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Puddle Hunters
This beautiful book captures the eternal delight of young children splashing about in puddles and experimenting with language.
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Off the Track
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How I Didn’t Straighten My Hair (and Other Life Lessons)
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Girltopia (Book 1)
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The Relic of the Blue Dragon (Children of the Dragon, Book 1)
When Harley Spark accidentally releases Qing, one of five dragon sisters, from the ancient vase she's been trapped in for centuries, he is soon on a dangerous international mission with Qing to find and free her four sisters.
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Molly The Pig (Moli Det Bigibigi)
Written in Kriol and English, this is the story of Molly, a little pig who is rescued from the bush.
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Just a Girl
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The Alien Zoo…Good as New!
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Inheritance
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The Truth App (Liars Book 1)
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Wren
Wren just wants a bit of peace and quiet. What he gets is the noisiest baby sister you could ever imagine! But when Wren runs away to the country, he discovers that maybe peace and quiet isn't all he needs...
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Barney
Barney loves cat food. Barney loves greens. Barney loves bacon and biscuits and beans...
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Bush and Beyond: Stories from Country
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The Great Lizard Trek
Trek through country with Rocky and his lizard relatives in search for a cooler habitat.
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Sonam and the Silence
A haunting fable-like story by the well-known musician and author, Eddie Ayres, about the power of music and a young girl in Kabul set during the occupation of the Taliban
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The Happiness Box
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The Singing Seal
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Waves: For Those Who Come Across the Sea
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Japarrika
A powerful story about finding the courage to believe in yourself, written by senior students of Tiwi College in collaboration with David Lawrence and Shelley Ware. Penguin Random House will donate all profits from the sale of...
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Kangaroo and Crocodile
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Alfred’s War
Alfred's War is a powerful story that unmasks the lack of recognition given to Australian Indigenous servicemen who returned from the WWI battlelines.
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Bush Bash
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Red House, Blue House, Green House, Tree House
From a dynamic author-illustrator team comes this fresh, fun and rhythmic exploration of colour. Bold and bright, it's the perfect book for reading aloud and sharing with young children as they learn to identify the colours...
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George Parker Goes Global
Super-clever George Parker unexpectedly teams up with super-rich Chase Landon-Bond on an international adventure to rescue Chase's sister. A flat-out funny, mad-cap, strange and joyful mission filled with hijinks and hilarity.
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Where is Galah?
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Love Makes a Family
Whether you have two mums, two dads, one parent, or one of each, there's one thing that makes a family a family... and that's love. A book for EVERY family by dazzling illustrator Sophie Beer. Longlisted for the 2019...
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The Peacock Detectives
Shortlisted for the 2017 Text Prize, The Peacock Detectives is a delightfully Australian story about self-discovery and dealing with change for upper middle-graders.
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Shine Mountain
An epic adventure from the author of Song for a Scarlet Runner about a girl who finds a magical musical instrument, a boy from a travelling medicine show, and their perilous journey to a mysterious land.
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The Last Peach
Two indecisive bugs contemplate eating the last peach of the summer in this hilarious book about anticipation and expectation. Full color.
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The Bad Guys Episode 7: Do-you-think-he-saurus?!
Its time to get your Jurassic on, baby. Its time... for the BAD GUYS EPISODE 7!
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The Extremely Weird Thing That Happened In Huggabie Falls
Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls is the first book in a trilogy of sublimely ridiculous laugh-out-loud adventure stories for middle-grade...
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Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies: The Weird Beard (Book 1)
Award-winning Australian comedian Andrew Hansen, best known for The Chaser, has teamed up with his wife, designer Jessica Roberts, to create their very first children's book series.
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How to Win a Nobel Prize
A time-travel adventure for young budding scientists.
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Drought
From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire and Cyclone comes Drought a moving story about the devastating effects drought has on many Australians and their farms.
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Ginger Green is Absolutely MAD for Birthday Parties! (Mostly)
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Brindabella
From an extraordinary novelist and an award-winning illustrator comes this lyrical and unforgettable story about a boy and the untameable wildness of a hand-reared joey.
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Found in Melbourne
A beautifully illustrated counting book celebrating landmarks and attractions in Australia's most liveable city.
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Fearless Frederic
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Poppa Platoon in World War Chew
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Speccy-tacular AFL Stories
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Missing
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Turtle Trackers
From the beloved author of Wombat Warriors, Mister Cassowary and Smooch & Rose comes another thrilling adventure about Australia's endangered animals.
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Ninja Kid: From Nerd to Ninja (Book 1)
Nelson's a nerd. Unfit, uncool...and totally awkward! But when he wakes up on his tenth birthday, he discovers he is a Ninja! The last ninja on earth! How is he going to save the world when he cannot even get his undies on the...
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Quark’s Academy
Quark's Academy is a junior fiction adventure complete with humorous dialogue, mad plotting and peculiar characters for readers aged eight to twelve.
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The Hole Story
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Grandma Z
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Kookaburras Love to Laugh.
It is no laughing matter when you are the most serious bird in the borough.Kookaburras love to laugh. They laugh when it is sunny, or rainy, or windy. They laugh for no reason at all. When oneserious kookaburra decides to flee the...
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Sandcastle
A story for anyone who likes to spend a day at the beach, and for everyone who has ever pondered the big questions about our place in the universe.
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The Endsister
Unforgettable characters, chaotic family life and an intriguing ghost story combine in this funny, absorbing tale of a family who inherit a mansion on the other side of the world.
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The Troll Heart (The Witching Hours Book 2)
The Witching Hours series continues with book 2, The Troll Heart - a chilling tale of stone and blood for only the bravest of readers.
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Lintang and the Forbidden Island
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Grace on the Court
Grace Parker tries to figure out how to handle the 3Bs: boys, boy bands and ball sports.
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Hounds and Hauntings (Rose Raventhorpe Investigates, Book 3)
The city of Yorke is under attack and it's up to Rose Raventhorpe and Yorke's secret society of butlers to find the culprit! The third mystery in the Rose Raventhorpe Investigates series.
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At the Beach I See
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The Mediterranean
A lifeless body. One of many in the waters of the Mediterranean. Precarious boats navigate the waters of the sea, from south to north. And more often than not, it is not only hope that drowns.From the creator of The Island.
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Friday Barnes 8: Never Fear
The final installment in the beloved girl detective series!
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I Remember
I remember is an exquisite tale of memory. Set in the Geraldton area of Western Australia, an elderly woman remembers the camping trips of her childhood. As her recollections fade in and out, she is drawn to think...
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Indigo Blue
An inspiring adventure story from Young Australian of the Year 2011, Jessica Watson.
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