The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart: Shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Awards by Samera Kamaleddine
$17.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country by Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal, Leah Leaman, Cecelia Edwards, Cassandra Algy, Felicity Meakins, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti
$29.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country is a fascinating, illustrated science book that takes kids inside the life of termites through storytelling from the Gurindji People. Did you know there are four types of termite poo? Or that a warm paste made from termite mound is used to strengthen a ...Show more
Wild About Book Week by Sarah Speedie
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
One more sleep!I'm so excited! Book Week's here at last!What will I wear for dress-up day? I need a costume fast.With so many wonderful books to choose from, deciding on the perfect Book Week costume can be a HUGE challenge, but not when you have a family WILD about creativity!
Scout and the Rescue Dogs by Dianne Wolfer
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Timeless by Kelly Canby
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Hope Is The Thing by Johanna Bell, Erica Wagner
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
A highly original, beautiful and deeply meaningful picture book that sees the marvellous and inspiring world of birds through the eyes of a child and celebrates birds' adaptability and ingenuity. Hope is a kookaburra singing the sun Hope is the emu learning to run ... Let your imagination soar in this ...Show more
Bear and Duck are Friends by Sue deGennaro
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Bear and Duck are best friends, but they are very different. Duck likes to try new things, and Bear ... well, Bear likes not to. When Duck needs a friend for her dance class, Bear reluctantly agrees. Bear’s big size causes problems at first, but he soon discovers that he might just be a very good dan ...Show more
Can You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree? by Jane Godwin
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
‘Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.’ -- Albert Einstein (or not, as it turns out!) So … can a fish climb a tree? Can a horse drive a car? Can a baby bake a cake? And if they can’t, what wonderful thing ...Show more
That Bird Has Arms by Kate Temple, Jol Temple
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Paper-flower Girl by MARGRETE LAMOND
$26.95 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Gymnastica Fantastica! by Briony Stewart
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Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
Quick! Come and see! Something fabulous, it's . . . me! Gymnastica Fantastica! is a joyful and exuberant picture book about a child discovering and attempting new physical skills and putting on wonderfully imperfect shows for whoever will watch them. Join Gymnastica, a small person with big energy, as t ...Show more