Kids
The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls by Adam Cece & Andrew Weldon
In Huggabie Falls, something like having a maths teacher who’s also a witch is normal, because Huggabie Falls is the weirdest town on Earth. But then something extremely weird happens! Kipp Kindle and his best friends Tobias Treachery and Cymphany…
How to Win a Nobel Prize by Barry Marshall, Lorna Hendry & Bernard Caleo
While waiting to meet a famous scientist at her mum’s work, Mary (who wants to win a Nobel Prize when she grows up) stumbles into a room in which a man in a crumpled lab coat is talking to someone…
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different is a welcome addition to the collections of biographies designed to inspire children. Similar to Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, it offers 100 snapshot biographies of boys and men who…
The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake
What struck me immediately about this little treasure was I couldn’t help reading it aloud. There’s a magical rhythm, almost a poetry, which sings off the page. Russell Hoban has distilled the exploration of love, yearning, loneliness and even mortality…
Shout Out to the Girls
I’m pretty excited about the current sweep of consciousness-raising books for young readers celebrating inspiring women.
Due to the wildly successful Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, the concept of the ‘girl book’ is currently being re-imagined, signalling the…
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
When Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls hit the shops early in 2017, girls, parents, and educators were excited that an historical imbalance was being rectified; women had actually been doing notable things all along, those things just hadn’t been…
Elementals: Ice Wolves (Book 1) by Amie Kaufman
Anders and his sister Rayna are twin orphans who live on the streets and pick pockets to survive. Their island, Vallen, is controlled by warring elemental creatures, Ice Wolves and Scorch Dragons, and their town is home to the wolves…
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
When five siblings discover a Psammead – an ancient, wish-granting, sand fairy – they think all their dreams have come true. The delightfully grumpy Psammead has eyes like a snail, ears like a bat and a plump body covered in…
The Yark by Bertrand Santini & Laurent Gapaillard
With his coiled fangs and matted, dripping coat he trundles into children’s bedrooms whilst they are quietly sleeping and gobbles them, raw! But watch out, for the Yark cannot eat naughty children (they make him sick); instead, he feasts on…
The Silver Sea by Alison Lester & Jane Godwin
When two of the best in Australian children’s literature get together, it’s time to rejoice. Having worked together with Indigenous children to make books, Jane Godwin and Alison Lester have had lots of creative experiences and now they have collaborated…
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