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The best books to read aloud to kids
This deceptively simple book is enormous…
The CBCA notable books of 2019
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced its Notable Books for 2019. Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers!
The CBCA Awards were first presented in 1946 and are the longest-running book awards in Australia.
(This year the judges received 488 books for consideration and have enjoyed a range of themes, characters and stories across the five categori…
Meet the bookseller with Amanda Rayner
I love working in an industry where your knowledge expands every day, but there is always more to learn. I’ve met some of my closest friends while wo…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
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Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
What we’re reading: Nunez, Marchetta and parenting books
Sigrid Nunez won the National Book Award for fiction last year for this story about a woman whose friend commits suicide and leaves her to care for his ageing harlequin Great Dane. The book is written al…
Six new graphic novels and comics to pick up
This year-long daily ‘diary comic’ follows Melbourne artist Mandy Ord through a year in her life, casting a magnifying glass on Ord’s quotidian thoughts and experiences and the people that surround her. Ord’s bold brush-work comics have a vivid, pulsing emotion to them, and are the perfect medium to convey her explorations of ageing, lo…
The Readings Children’s Book Prize shortlist 2019
We’re very excited to reveal this year’s shortlist for the Readings Children’s Book Prize.
This prize celebrates exciting new voices in Australian children’s literature. This year’s six shortlisted titles will appeal to a wide range of ages, and features thrilling exploits, as well as quiet stories that sensitively tackle themes of mental health, bullying, family dynamics, growing up, and facing…
Board books with female characters to tackle gender bias
I once had a customer walk into the shop with a very reasonable request: board books featuring human girls or women – no female animals, please, she had plenty of those – for a family with a baby girl. This customer wanted that girl to start her life surrounded by stories about all different kinds of women – to inspire her, to spark her imagination and to normalise the idea early on that women sh…
Books about activism for teens
Best friends Jasmine and Chelsea attend a progressive …
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