The Concrete Garden by Bob Graham
$27.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
A timely, inspiring and uplifting story about hope and the power of creative expression, from one of the world's most treasured bookmakers. After a cold, dark winter, doors opened. Children spilled out like sweets from a box. Amanda was last one out of the tower block. She brought some chalk with her. O ...Show more
Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Australia: Country of Colour by Jess Racklyeft
$29.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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.
Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Our Country: Where History Happened by Mark Greenwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024 | 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
Two Can Play That Game by Leanne Yong
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
One Little Duck: Shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Awards by Katrina Germein
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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
Grace Notes by Karen Comer
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
This song has a grace note, a tiny note that's there for embellishment but can easily be ignored, not played. Tonight, I add it in - just because. We can all do with an extra note of grace. Grace Dalfinch is a talented violinist who longs to play contemporary music in bars, but her mum forbids her. Jam ...Show more
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says ...Show more
Flap Out (#11 Real Pigeons) by Andrew McDonald
$16.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024 | Series: Real Pigeons Ser.
Ever wonder why pigeons always act so weird? It's because they're out there chasing the bad guys and saving your butts! The Real Pigeons love flapping around the city and fighting crime. But when lunches start mysteriously DISAPPEARING from tummies, a LOOKALIKE pigeon makes evil plans and a dangerous D ...Show more
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024 | Series: A Hunger of Thorns
Be swept up in this brilliant witchy tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them. Perfect for fans of the Serpent; Dove series. Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls wh ...Show more
Phonobet (HB) by Kathy Weeden, Kim Drane
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2024
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