1. Welcome To Country by Aunty Joy Murphy & Lisa Kennedy
2. Finding Our Heart by Thomas Mayor & Blak Douglas
3. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
4. Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
5. Respect by Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson & Lisa Kennedy
6. Bluey: Big Backyard
7. Bluey: Bob Bilby
8. Greta Thunberg (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Anke Weckmann
9. Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr
10. Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller

Our kids & YA bestsellers this week feature some fantastic books by First Nations authors, from picture books suitable for young readers (Respect and Welcome To Country), to longer reads providing illuminating accounts of Australian history (Finding Our Heart and Young Dark Emu).

We’ve also been enjoying quality Australian young adult fiction in the form of Kay Kerr’s sparkling debut novel Please Don’t Hug Me, and the excellent Readings Young Adult Book Prize shortlisted mystery/thriller, Ghost Bird. The rest of our kids & YA bestsellers is a heady brew of climate activism, dystopian nightmare and gentle stories of being outdoors in nature - so take from that what you will!