- The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor
- Code Name Bananas by David Walliams & Tony Ross
- Sing Me the Summer by Alison Lester & Jane Godwin
- The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
- Bluey: Hooray, It’s Christmas!
- What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers
- The 130-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
- Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey
- We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad
- Bluey: Verandah Santa
You could buy the entire kids and YA bestsellers list this week, and you would have a fine selection of presents for all the youngsters in your life! Littlies would love Alison Lester and Jane Godwin’s summery picture book, a Christmassy Bluey tale or Oliver Jeffers’s gorgeously illustrated family story.
Independent readers who love to laugh would lap up the latest Treehouse saga, a war-time caper from David Walliams or the inimitable Dav Pilkey’s unique introduction to comic making. Enthusiastic young readers aged 9 and up will find much pleasure with Amelia Mellor’s magical book set in a Melbourne icon, or award-winning Katrina Nannestad’s gripping story of wartime survival.
And if you know a teen in need of a page-turning read, then you really cannot go wrong with bestselling thriller author Karen M. McManus’s summertime family mystery.