How to Make a Bird by Meg McKinlay
$25.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021Picture Book
Extraordinary imagery and rich language spark the reader's imagination as they enter the creative world of a young girl. From award-winning author Meg McKinlay and celebrated artist Matt Ottley comes a moving and visually stunning picture book that celebrates the transformative power of the creative pro ...Show more
Busy Beaks by Sarah Allen
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Early Childhood
Spend a day with Australia's most vibrant and unique feathered friends. Full of splashing shorebirds, clattering cockatoos, parading penguins and greedy galahs, Busy Beaks is the perfect introduction to birds of all shapes and sizes.
The Grandest Bookshop in the World (Grandest Bookshop #1 HB) by Amelia Mellor
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers | Series: The Grandest Bookshop in the World
Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole’s Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just ...Show more
Before the Beginning by Anna Morgan
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
Schoolies week: that strange in-between time when teenagers move from school into the adult world. It's a week when anything is possible, and everything can change. Grace is questioning everything she thought about herself, and has opted not to join her clique of judgemental friends for schoolies, inste ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals by Sami Bayly
$33.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Eve Pownall Award
Dangerous animals get a bad rap, but this beautifully illustrated encyclopaedia helps us appreciate the incredible features of some of our more hair-raising animal species. With more than sixty of the most deadly and dangerous animals from across the world to explore, every page of this beautifully illu ...Show more
Azaria: A True History by Maree Coote
$29.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Eve Pownall Award
What happens when the truth gets lost? Where wild animals and people meet, tragedy can strike, But when a tiny baby is stolen by a dingo, people simply cannot accept such a thing. Prejudice and gossip grip the nation, and the tragedy transforms into a fight for the truth. How did it all go so wrong? Thi ...Show more
When Rain Turns to Snow by Jane Godwin
$16.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Young Readers
A runaway, a baby and a whole lot of questions... Lissa is home on her own after school one afternoon when a stranger turns up on the doorstep carrying a baby. Reed is on the run - surely people are looking for him? He's trying to find out who he really is and thinks Lissa's mum might have some answers ...Show more
Shapes and Colours by John Canty
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Early Childhood
John Canty, the award-winning author/illustrator of the Heads and Tails series introduces readers to a multi-tiered new concept book about shape and colour sorting and object identification. With fresh and appealing illustrations and a striking design, this is a future classic for modern kids.
Matthew Flinders by Carole Wilkinson
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Eve Pownall Award
Matthew Flinders was a country boy who wanted to be a sailor. He lived at a time when ocean voyages took months, sometimes years. His life at sea was full of adventure and danger. He was the first to sail all the way around Australia.He drew the first complete map of the continent. Sailing was a dangero ...Show more
Little Lon by Andrew Kelly
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Eve Pownall Award
Little Lon scrapes back the layers of history to show how people lived and worked in a post settlement Australian city. Behind the grand buildings of the big streets was Little Lon. A working-class district of little houses and narrow lanes, bursting with life and the stories of the people who lived the ...Show more
The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks
$17.99 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Older Readers
One extraordinary year will change them all... Sorrento, Victoria, 1999. Fred's family is a mess. Her mother died when she was six and she's been raised by her Pop and adoptive father, Luca, ever since. But now Pop's had to go away, and Luca's girlfriend Anika and her son have moved in. More and more it ...Show more
Ten Little Figs by Rhian Williams; Nathaniel Eckstrom
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2021 Early Childhood
A child counts down the figs on the backyard fig tree, as each one is snatched away by a different Australian animal, in this ode to Australia's natural landscape. Ten little figs are on my tree.I love figs and they're all for me. Ten Little Figs is a joyful rhyming picture book about a child keepi ...Show more