Huda Was Here by H. Hayek
$15.99 AUD
Category: Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds of trouble. A delightful and hilarious story from a CBCA award-winning author, about a lion-hearted girl who just wants the best for her family. Huda yawns loudly and stretches out her arms. Almost like she ...Show more
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Book of the Year
In her funniest book yet, two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall captures the astonishing spectacle of a child imagining life as a horse. And with a book jacket adorned with glitter, this romp really sparkles! If I was a horse, I would gallop all day. I could go anywhere I want . . . If you were a ...Show more
Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Book of the Year: Older Readers
Ella and I have been best friends since grade one. We can spend hours talking about everything and nothing. We know each other's greatest fears, things that irrationally annoy us, and ideal career if money and skill weren't an issue. If there was only one Hartford Bakery brownie left in the whole world ...Show more
One Little Duck: Shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Awards by Katrina Germein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Book of the Year: Early Childhood
The classic 'Five Little Ducks' meets We're Going on a Bear Hunt and I Went Walking in an irresistibly fresh, cute and clever picture book that pre-schoolers will love. One little duck went out one day, over the hills and far away. Mother Duck said ... 'Moo Moo Moo Moo,' and Cow said, 'Wait! Now I'm com ...Show more
Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Eve Pownall Award | Series: Our Country Ser.
The second title in the OUR COUNTRY series, celebrating and contextualising the richness of Australia's history, and where it happened. In every corner of Australia, history happened. The pages of this book are a journey through tens of thousands of years. Our history is recorded in ancient rock art, in ...Show more
Paper-flower Girl by Margrete Lamond
$26.95 AUD
Category: Picture Book of the Year
The Paper-flower Girl creates elaborate flowers out of paper, but she has few customers. When the Giant from the Hill brings her to work for him, they soon discover they want very different things. Before long, the Paper-flower Girl is forced to create things she no longer recognises as flowers. When th ...Show more
Phonobet (HB) by Kathy Weeden, Kim Drane
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Award for New Illustrator
Age range 4 to 6 Come and meet the Phonobet, old Alpha Betty’s twin,The set of all the sounds you use when waggling your chin.Phonobet is a modern-day, Australian answer to Dr Seuss’s ABC. This very clever rhyming text takes an onomatopoeic romp through the 44 phonemes of Australian (and British) Englis ...Show more
Raised by Moths by Charlie Archbold, Michelle Conn
$29.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Award for New Illustrator
Age range 4+ Willow jumps on the Ferris Wheel and is intrigued to see a boy surrounded by moths. As they travel high above the fairground he tells her the reason why the moths love him so much: he was raised by moths. Wonderfully fantastical and thought-provoking with stunning illustrations, Raised b ...Show more
Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: Book of the Year: Younger Readers
A missing father. A drowned town. A buried secret. Three friends on a dangerous mission to uncover the truth.Seven years after Old Scarborough was drowned, a house is emerging from the water. Will and his friends Dar and Juno dare each other to explore it.But when they find bones - and a stash of cash - ...Show more
That Bird Has Arms by Kate Temple, Jol Temple
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Book of the Year | Reading Level: near fine
Roy is an ordinary bird in every way. He is not the biggest, or the smallest. His squawk is not the loudest or the quietest. He even follows the same football team as everyone else. He was very normal except for one thing – he has ARMS. Absolutely nobody knows – and Roy would like to keep it that way... ...Show more
Timeless by Kelly Canby
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Book of the Year
This vibrant new picture book by award-winning author and illustrator Kelly Canby is all about time - making it, losing it and subverting the whole darn concept.;Emit (whose parents turned back time to name him) is surrounded by busyness. Dad is too busy to read stories, Mum is too busy to play games an ...Show more
Two Can Play That Game by Leanne Yong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Book of the Year: Older Readers
Funny and romantic, an upbeat YA novel about gaming, goals and getting even from a fresh new voice in contemporary fiction. How did I let my sister talk me into going out when I have a game to fix and a jerkface to destroy? Sam Khoo has one goal in life: create cool indie games. She's willing to do any ...Show more