Kids
Come Over to My House by Eliza Hull & Sally Rippin
I have been waiting for years for a book like Come Over to My House. On every page you’re invited to someone’s house to play, eat, dance, read or any other number of exciting activities. Except each house does…
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
Bug is used to the supernatural. When you grow up in a haunted house, cold draughts and doors that open on their own aren’t very scary. And Uncle Roderick has always been there to explain all the strange goings-on in…
Dusty in the Outwilds by Rhiannon Williams
The award-winning Australian creator of the Ottilie Colter trilogy has gifted us an enthralling new standalone adventure: Dusty in the Outwilds. Willa, or Dusty to everyone but her dad, has grown up listening to her Gran tell fantastical stories…
Runt by Craig Silvey
In the town of Upson Downs in country Australia, Annie Shearer and her adopted stray dog, Runt, are quite the pair. Annie is a unique and intelligent girl with a strong set of values, and Runt is a remarkably fast…
Farmhouse by Sophie Blackall
Sophie Blackall has written and illustrated books that delve into the minutiae of a specific topic, such as the amazing Caldecott Medal-winner Hello Lighthouse, but she has also spread her wings with beautiful and sensitive explorations of our planet…
The Goodbye Year by Emily Gale
Harper is excited about her final year of primary school, but nothing is working out the way she hoped. Her nurse parents travel to Yemen for work and she has to stay with a grandma she barely knows. Her school…
The Zebra's Great Escape by Katherine Rundell & Sara Ogilvie (illus.)
From the moment our feisty protagonist, Mink, responds to the desperate cry for help from a little zebra (whose parents have been abducted) the reader knows they’re in for a wildly exuberant adventure of daring and rescue! Fiercely determined and…
Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Millicent Margaret Amanda (or Milly-Molly-Mandy for short) is a small girl who lives in an idyllic English village sometime in the 1920s, and when I was a small girl, living in suburban Melbourne sometime in the 1980s, I completely adored…
My Strange Shrinking Parents by Zeno Sworder
When my daughter was young, I told her that while she was small it was my job to look after her, but that one day I would be small and she would need to take care of me. In this…
Chippy Chasers: Chippy Jackpot by Sam Cotton
Chippy jackpot! Can’t argue with a title like that, hey? This is a graphic-novel chapter book, and it is very funny.
It’s bedtime in Sydney and Grandgull has the kids enthralled with a dramatic heist story from days gone by…
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