Scout and the Rescue Dogs by Dianne Wolfer
$16.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
A celebration of community, adventure, kindness and, above all, dogs! The summer holidays have finally arrived and Scout can’t wait for her adventure in the big rig with Dad. They’re on a mission to deliver donations of dog food to animal rescue shelters right across the state. There’ll be lots of mus ...Show more
The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart: Shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Awards by Samera Kamaleddine
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers
Friendship, family and feelings collide in this sparkling middle-grade debut from Matilda Prize winner, Samera Kamaleddine. Evie Hart likes rules. A lot. But as she embarks on her very last year of primary school, it feels like all the rules around her are being broken. When Evie's class starts learning ...Show more
Ming and Hilde Lead a Revolution (The Girls Who Changed the World, #3) by Jackie French
$17.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
The third book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed history throughout the world. She's faced danger and adventure when Herstory sent her to the past to witness girls' bravery in the incredible feats left out ...Show more
Where Will the Sleepy Sheep Sleep? by David Metzenthen
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Early Childhood
A gorgeous, funny, tongue-twisting picture book by two incredibly talented creators. Perfect for bedtime reading. Do you think the sleepy sheep will sleep on top of this wild and windy hill Baah! No-o-o, this windy hill is far too high and wild for a sleepy sheep to sleep on! Do you think the sleepy she ...Show more
Caroline by Mark Wilson
$29.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
Age range 8 to 12Caroline is the true story of Caroline Chisholm, All who went before her did their part in helping shape Australia into a confident, progressive and vibrant society. But when Caroline arrived in Australia, she thrived on the challenges facing her to help the many orphans, migrants and d ...Show more
Dirrarn: Daisy Utemorrah Award Winner by Carl Merrison, Hakea Hustler
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Younger Readers | Series: Black Cockatoo Ser.
Age range 10+Mia could hear the squarks of her Jarriny before she saw them. Her eye’s had flicked to the sky in search of the passing dirrarn but soon realized the noise was from the bird just beyond the gate.We first met Mia in Black Cockatoo, as she navigated her way through culture, Country and famil ...Show more
Little Treasure by Chanelle Gosper
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Inside the small bowl of your hands,I see your treasure. A mother and child explore a deserted beach on a windy day. It is an afternoon they will both treasure always. A poetic and tender book about how the small moments spent together are often the most precious.
One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World by A. J. Betts
$20.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
'In a few months, the four of us will be elsewhere, doing other things, and this chance we have now will be long gone. We won't get a redo. We won't get another shot at changing the very course of our existence.' Eva writes intimate, personal songs. She wants to make it as a musician, but after three fa ...Show more
Stay for Dinner by Sandhya Parappukkaran
$27.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
Stay for Dinner is a powerful story that celebrates culture and connection through food, from the creators of The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name, winner of the 2022 Children's Book Council of Australia's Award for New Illustrator. Reshma loves dinnertime with her family. Her family eat with their ha ...Show more
Australia: Country of Colour by Jess Racklyeft
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Eve Pownall Award
With red deserts, green bush, wide blue skies and golden beaches, Australia is a country of extraordinary colour. Come take a closer look at the rainbow of life that lives in Australia, from one of our best-loved picture book creators.
Leaf-light by Trace Balla
$28.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Picture Book of the Year
This beautiful graphic novel is a stand-alone companion to Landing with Wings by CBCA award-winning author Trace Balla. Join Miri on her quest to help a rescued baby emu find its feet in the world, and as she connects to her community in joyful and unexpected ways. From the multi-award-winning creator o ...Show more
Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth by Anna Fienberg
$18.00 AUD
Category: CBCA 2024 Notables Older Readers
Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can make her forget the old, sad secret dragging at her heart. Not the pictures of bacteria that she draws with painstaking precision, not even Picasso, the puppy with the long soft ears and the cute black c ...Show more