Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 10: Old School by Jeff Kinney (both the paperback and hardback editions)
- The Red Queen by Isobelle Carmody
- The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- The Wonder Garden: Wander Through The World’s Wildest Habitat and Discover More Than 80 Amazing Animals by Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams
- What Do You Wish for? by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker
- Top of the Class (Nearly) by Liz Pichon
- My Dog Bigsy by Alison Lester
- In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek and Christine Roussey
- The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton (both the paperback and hardback editions)
Two terrific Australian YA books appear on our bestsellers list this week. Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s Illuminae is an unusually structured and all-encompassing read set in the future; the main character, Kady, lives in an illegal mining colony at the edge of the universe in 2375. And, Isobelle Carmody gives readers the heart-stopping, thrilling conclusion to her Obernewtyn Chronicles with The Red Queen!
Our staff have fallen head-over-hells for Jenny Broom and Kristjana S Williams’s gorgeous picture book, The Wonder Garden: Wander Through The World’s Wildest Habitat and Discover More Than 80 Amazing Animals. Our reviewer calls it “a must for nature-loving readers of any age”. Read the full review here.
Other bestsellers include three very funny reads for middle fiction readers (ages 8 to 12): Jeff Kinney’s latest Diary of a Wimpy tale, Old School; Liz Pichon latest Tom Gates tale, Top of the Class (Nearly); and Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s latest Treehouse tale, The 65-Storey Treehouse.
