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Jack Cheng
An astonishingly moving middle-grade debut about a space-obsessed boy’s quest for family and home.
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Aaron Becker
Failing to get the attention of her busy father, a lonely girl turns back to a fantastic world for friendship and adventure. It’s her third journey into the enticing realm…
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Paul Griffin,Paul Griffin
A boy’s chance encounter with a scruffy dog leads to an unforgettable friendship in this deeply moving story about life, loss and the meaning of family
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Shaun Tan
Fifteen intriguing illustrated stories about the mysteries that lurk below the surface of suburban life from the wonderful Shaun Tan.
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Shaun Tan,Shaun Tan
A unique 128-page, textless graphic novel, in black, white and sepia, drawing inspiration from tales of migrants in past and recent times.
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Mel Tregonning
An ordinary boy in an ordinary world…With no words, only illustrations, Small Things tells the story of a boy who feels alone with his worries, but who learns that help…
Rebecca Stead
Miranda and Sal are friends, but when Sal gets punched by a kid for no apparent reason, he shuts Miranda out of his life. Then she finds a mysterious note…
Oliver Jeffers
The exquisite and thought-provoking new book from the multi award-winning, internationally best-selling picture book creator of Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers.
Matt Lamothe
This Is How We Do It follows the lives of seven REAL kids from Japan, Uganda, Russia, Iran, Peru, India and Italy for a single day.
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Eric Veille
With its funky format, clever rhymes and funny images, My Pictures After the Storm is a witty and inventive take on before and after.
Catharina Valckx
Days come and go, and for Bruno they always bring something interesting. And once in a while, a day comes along that is just about perfect! These six linked stories…
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Chris Harris
Forget what you think you know about poetry - this is something totally different. Chris Harris’s I’m Just No Good At Rhyming combines wit, wordplay and nonsense with visual and…
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On one level this work is the story of an airman’s discovery of a small boy from another planet in the desert and his stories of intergalactic travel, and on…
Morris Gleitzman
Blending humour and heart, Maybe is a coming-of-age story about identity, family, and the search for truth and explores the devastating and long-lasting impact of loss and trauma.
Brian Selznick,Brian Selznick
Told in two stand-alone stories, the first nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, and the second in text.
Katrina Goldsaito
Wabi Sabi meets The Quiet Book in this story of a Japanese boy who tries to hear the sound of silence in bustling Tokyo.
Beck Feiner
In this vibrant look at Australian cultural icons, A is for Adam Goodes, B is for Bob Hawke and C is for Cathy Freeman.
Pam Smy
A darkly gripping tale of two girls separated by thirty years but pulled together by a house.
Madeleine L'Engle
When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a ‘wrinkle in time’ for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge…
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Margo Lanagan
Tintinnabula is a story about moving from discomfort to peace, from violence and uncertainty to a still, sure place. It reminds us that our best friend in hard times can…
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
An extraordinary and enthralling illustrated anthology of Norse Myths from a Carnegie-Medal winning author.
Jessica Townsend
A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut Australian author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested…
Zana Fraillon
Subhi’s imagination is as big as the ocean and wide as the sky, but his world is much smaller: he’s spent his whole life in an immigration detention centre. The…
R J Palacio
Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things. He eats ice-cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary…
