Kids
The Fourteenth Summer of Angus Jack by Jen Storer
Angus and Martha live in a small beach town where nothing much happens – until a mysterioussecond‑hand shop materialises overnight. Before they know it, Angus and Martha find themselves caught up in an ancient conflict and a web of intrigue…
The Hush Treasure Book
‘Treasure’ is a perfect word to describe this curated collection of gems from a golden line-up of much-loved Australian authors and illustrators. The Hush Music Foundation is known for producing soothing music for use in children’s hospitals and they have…
The Marvellous Fluffy Squishy Itty Bitty by Beatrice Alemagna
The youngest member of a brilliant family, Edith thinks she’s not very good at anything. But when Edith – who lives in Paris and is five-and-a-half years old – goes in search of the perfect birthday gift for her mother…
Bob the Railway Dog by Corinne Fenton
This is not Corinne Fenton’s first picture book about a dog and like the one in The Dog on the Tuckerbox, Bob is a loyal dog, but his faithfulness is more to the trains that travelled throughout southern Australia…
The ACB with Honora Lee by Kate De Goldi
I was madly in love with De Goldi’s The 10pm Question a few years ago, so expectations were high for the new book by this New Zealand author. This wonderful story only made me love her work even more.
Perry…
Leo da Vinci vs The Ice-Cream Domination League by Michael Pryor
Writing for a younger age group for the first time, here’s much-loved Australian author Michael Pryor with a new series that centres on an inventor – 10-year-old Leo Da Vinci – who is bright and adventurous but, owing to his…
The School of Art by Teal Triggs & Daniel Frost
This is a gorgeous publication that describes the fundamentals of art practice for young students. Using five characters, known as the ‘professors of art’, the book takes the reader through 40 lessons from the basic elements of art (including lines…
Star of Deltora: Shadows of the Master by Emily Rodda
As a young girl in a post-Shadow Lord Deltora, Britta has two choices – work in her mother’s shop, exiled to the outskirts of her village, or fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a Trader and sailing the Star of…
The Bakehouse by Joy Cowley
Bert and his sisters Meg and Betty live in a small town in New Zealand during World War II. Bert is eleven when he discovers a secret entrance to the old Geronimo Bakehouse which is completely boarded up and deserted…
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder and Julie Morstad
One night a little girl is taken to see her first ballet concert and as her heart sings with the joy of it a dream is born.
The time was the 1800s, the place Russia and the girl was Anna…
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