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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Michael Dahl (Author)
Destroyer of Evil, Champion of Good, Full-time Librarian. Enter the Library of Doom, where the librarians exploits merge heart-pounding tales for less-confident readers with high quality illustrations. Includes discussion questions…
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A girl wakes and hears people shouting. Two strangers have forced her father out of the house. The girl follows the men as they head inside the giant Library of…
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Someone has broken into the Library of Doom! While searching for the intruder, the Librarian is struck down by a flying metal book. When he awakes, a shadowy figure stands…
Destroyer of Evil. Champion of Good. Full-Time Librarian. Meet the mysterious Librarian. Keeper of the world’s most dangerous books, sworn enemy of monsters made of paper and ink, crusader of…
The Page Turners, two powerful books from the Library of Doom, have fallen into the hands of the Spellbinder, an evil magician. He transforms the books into two terrible tornadoes…
One evening, a young boy gets locked inside the library. A pair of creepy lizard bookends begin to glow. Then suddenly, they come alive! The boy watches as the reptiles…
The old shopkeeper stares at the golden hinges on a strange book. Is that fur on the cover? He looks at the title, Claws. Is that a clue? Why does…
One night, a boy has a terrible dream. He wakes and heads out on his bike. He feels pushed in one direction. Soon he arrives at a mysterious cave. Inside…
Little Whale worries about everything, and that’s okay. Mother Whale is always there to make Little Whale feel better. No more worries, Little Whale!
A shadowy thief haunts the Library of Doom. One by one, the villain is outsmarting all the Library’s ancient traps. Nothing can stop him. And what’s worse, the thief is…
A young woman finds a bizarre book on a crowded bus. After reading a few pages, she becomes trapped inside the book itself. The pages spread out like an endless…
Some books are too evil to be ignored. They cannot be thrown away or burned. They must be buried deep in the ground. So when the Librarian tries to bury…
The Library of Doom’s secret chamber holds a book that drains the Librarian’s life away. Now, the book has been stolen - and only another Librarian could be the thief…
A strange book is left on an empty street. The wind blows its pages. The pages keep moving. And they are hungry! Only the Librarian can save a young boy…
The wind howls on a cold winter night. A young boy trudges through the snow to deliver a book, but something horrible lurks in the bookshop … terrifying, inky monsters…
The most fearsome book in the Library of Doom contains a single sentence. It’s so horrible that anyone who reads it will vanish into nothingness. The book is now loose…
When two friends open the door to a library, a clawed hand pulls them inside! They awaken in a strange nest that is filled with giant eggs. When one of…
An explosion shakes the Library of Doom, ripping a hole through 70 floors! Now, one of the young workers - a Page - is missing, and it will take two…
Slate is a cliffhanger. His job is to guard the most dangerous books in the Library of Doom. But one day, Slate’s curiosity gets the better of him. He opens…
Birds chirp. A dog barks. Thunder claps. We hear sounds all around us. But how? Sound waves travel through the air, but we don’t see them. With engaging, at-level text…
It’s time to get dressed, which is no easy task for Little Turtle! But Little Turtle will not give up. Keep on trying, Little Turtle!
A huge creature unfolds itself from the pages of a thesaurus into an origami monster! Now, a young student is face to face with Thesaurus Rex, a dino-sized villain of…
Kid’s favourite super hero comics turned into easy-to-read chapter books. New stories with original art by DC illustrators, these books are colourful, attractive and accessible.
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In the heart of the Library of Doom, within the Librarian’s secret chamber, is a sealed, invisible vault. It contains a single book – a book so poisonous that it…
Slate is a cliffhanger – a person who tracks down specific books on the skyscraper-like shelves deep within the Library of Doom. Slate boasts that he can find any book…
One night, a young student’s thesaurus disappears from her bedroom. A trail of slimy footprints leads to the bedroom window, so she looks outside and sees the thesaurus down below…
With the Blue Diamond of Russia on display, Batman and Robin know a super-villain’s on the way. But when the Penguin drops into the Gotham City Museum, the Dynamic Duo…
Batman and Robin split up to investigate a pair of crimes, only to discover they’re in for double the trouble. Two-Face has teamed-up with a partner to deal out monetary…
A young man gets a splinter from a strange, silver book. That night, beneath the eerie glow of a full moon, the man transforms into the Word Eater. This hideous…
Jason wishes he were taller. He wishes his arms were longer. He wishes his nose were shorter. So when Jason discovers a bottle of so-called Skeleton Lotion in a strange…
Full stops say stop! They tell us when a sentence ends, and they help us shorten words. Follow along and learn all about hard-working full stops.
Commas love taking breaks. In fact, they want everyone to take breaks! Follow along and learn all about commas.
Introduces counting in tens by counting the number of toes on the beach.
Told in rhyming text, a young girl cheers her brother on at a skateboarding competition, and returns home with her family to dream of her favorite extreme sport.
After an away game victory, a bus full of football players heads back home. Bestselling author Michael Dahl (LIBRARY OF DOOM and IGOR’S LAB OF FEAR) takes young readers on…
It’s Zoo Day, and the adjectives can’t wait for all the furry, fuzzy, feathered, noisy, wet and sweet things. The perfect pairing of solid grammar basics and plenty of humour…
The pronouns aren’t just enjoying their day at the sculpture garden, they’re loving it! That topiary? He looks like a trumpet player. This topiary? It looks like a dinosaur! Who’s…
They’re so tiny but do so much! Whether scurrying across the street, hiding under a hot-dog stand, or riding on a taxi, the prepositions are taking the city by storm…
The conjunctions know how to join things together and get things done. And that makes them the perfect parts of speech to go on a scouting adventure or two! Solid…
Hundreds of trophies, awards and souvenirs fill the Batcave’s hidden rooms. Each one tells a story of danger, villainy and victory. This is the tale of Catwoman’s cat-eye gem! And…
Aboard a strange-looking bus, a girl hears whining coming from a hatch beneath her seat. When the girl lifts the hatch to investigate, a hand reaches out and grabs her…
The Beast slips into the Heroes Hold, hunting for a powerful book, and it is up to the Librarian and his helpers to stop him.
