Kids
When the Lights Went Out by Lian Tanner & Jonathan Bentley (illus.)
In the olden days, when I was young, the power used to go out in Melbourne’s suburbs a few times a year. Occasionally annoying, but more often great fun, it was something different and exciting. Where are the candles? How…
Harry By the Sea by Gene Zion & Margaret Bloy Graham (illus.)
I have several picture books from childhood I can’t bear to part with. I don’t know why, it’s just a feeling, a memory from years ago that began with words and pictures on a page capturing my young imagination. The…
Always Was, Always Will Be by Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson
Always Was, Always Will Be is an in-depth look at how Australia’s First Nations have never stopped fighting for their land, their rights and their voice. Starting from the arrival of the Europeans, Aunty Fay Muir details all the ways…
Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen
Detective Beans is the first full-colour graphic novel of New Zealand-based comics creator Li Chen. Detective Beans is a kitten and a detective, so when his crucially important hat goes missing, he immediately commences an investigation. The hat always seems…
Stitch by Padraig Kenny & Steve McCarthy (illus.)
Stitch doesn’t know where he came from, he only remembers waking up in the professor’s lab. Though he has never left the castle, he’s content with his life: just him, the Professor, Henry Oaf, and the brown mouse. It’s the…
Queen of Dogs by Joe Weatherstone
Maddy comes from a busy family. A tennis champ sister, star runner brother and parents with hectic jobs; there is never time to stop and smell the roses! But Maddy isn’t interested in the hustle and bustle of a busy…
The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival
Will has the wrong shoes: they’re not Nike, Reebok, or even proper school shoes. They’re plastic leather, with a split that means rain will always equal a wet foot. But they’re all his dad, who was injured and has been…
Sharkman and Blowfish: World Domination by David Woodland
Melbourne-based publishers Berbay are known for brilliant children’s books that are slightly out of left field, but this is a book that is completely unhinged. The book begins with the Sharkman and Blowfish origin story: a meeting at school, then…
How to Move a Zoo by Kate Simpson & Owen Swan (illus.)
Whoever would have thought an elephant would walk through the Sydney streets onto a ferry and sail on it across the waters of Port Jackson to the new Taronga Zoo? In 1916, it happened! Jessie, the last inmate of the…
Lights Out, Little Dragon! by Debra Tidball & Rae Tan (illus.)
Award-winning Australian author Debra Tidball brings to life the tale of a very sleepy little dragon that refuses to go to bed, even though he’s tired – he’s just so desperate to stay awake and have fun.
The author invites…
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