Kids
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
I was a touch apprehensive coming back to this book, given the rapture with which I remembered it being received by my 13-year-old self. What if I had overestimated it in my memory? What if it wasn’t much chop after…
Timmy Failure Book 3: We Meet Again by Stephen Pastis
Timmy Failure fans, prepare yourselves for even more greatness! Timmy is back in this – the third book in his series. This time Timmy is hired by Angel de Manzanas Naranjas to find the Miracle report – a nature report…
Animalium by Katie Scott & Jenny Broom
If you know what a Sirenia or a Pinnipedia are, you may think you don’t need this book, but oh yes you do!
Looking like some forgotten volume that has surfaced from a nineteenth-century explorer’s library, Animalium features stunning illustrations…
Race to the End of the World by A.L. Tait
The king has declared a competition: the first person who can deliver to him a complete map of the world will receive whatever they wish, be it money, power or fame. After Quinn is picked to train as a mapmaker…
Little Dog and the Christmas Wish by Corinne Fenton & Robin Cowcher
I know it seems a little early to talk about Christmas books, but you may want to catch the overseas Christmas mail and send this to a homesick Victorian – or you may just want to enjoy a charming story…
The Necklace and the Present by Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood
The collaboration of author Libby Gleeson and illustrator Freya Blackwood has produced some extraordinarily beautiful works, including Amy & Louis and Look, a Book! Their newest project, The Cleo Stories, is about an imaginative young girl and her world…
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
For a child reader, there are books that, on first reading, create an immediate and enduring impression. These books feel deeply personal, and seem to speak directly to the reader. In Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth, first published in…
On Sudden Hill by Linda Sarah and Benji Davies
A box is a wonderful thing. Of course, it’s useful for transporting things, but its most charming uses are when it’s a robot, house or a spaceship, really anything your imagination wants.
Birt and Etho are old friends who climb…
Hello from Nowhere by Raewyn Caisley and Karen Blair
Eve and her dad live on the Nullarbor Plain and she loves it ‘in the middle of nowhere’. She loves the wildlife, the ever-changing tourists, the locals and the freedom. However, she misses her nan and wants her to visit…
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Somewhere between novel and autobiography, My Family and Other Animals is the story of 10-year-old nature enthusiast Gerald Durrell and his family’s four-year migration from England to Corfu in the 1930s. Gerald’s enthusiasm for the natural world finds the perfect…
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