Books

Age range 5+The rumble of a lawnmower sends the grass people running in search of a new life where they can truly free!The rumble of Mrs. Smith's lawnmower sends the little grass people in her lawn running in search of a new life without human...

Age range 5+With a magical wind's help, a boy finds the courage to step outside of his comfort zone, have the adventure he has wished for, and help another.Mali wishes to have a real adventure outside the comfort of his home, but he is unsure. With the...

Age range 5+While searching the forest for the perfect home, a weta encounters obstacles and predators.In the bushland, a weta is looking for the perfect hidey hole home. But each time weta finds what seems like the perfect spot, it is occupied by other...

Age range 5+A bear thinks the animals admire his fancy clothes and accessories but doesn't realise his underwear is showing.A debonair bear lazes atop his lair, as the other animals gather around. He thinks they are admiring his fancy clothes and...

It is the coldest day of winter, and most of the animals have gone to bed. But Brown Bear can't fall asleep. He wants to go outside, but he needs a disguise so the cold-loving animals won't recognise and ridicule him. But to look like a...

Age range 5+Ape is a hairdresser giving the jungle animals interesting haircuts in this tale of transformations.Dashing Ape has an eye for design, a knack with scissors, and a desire to transform the coiffure of everyone in the jungle. Thus, he opens Ape...

Age 6 +When he moves to a sheep ranch, a dog must cope with country life and his new unfriendly coworker.When his owner leaves him on a sheep ranch, Sandy the dog must learn how to adjust to country life, including driving sheep and deal with his new...

Age range 6 to 9 Monty Mole must overcome his fear and swallow his pride when some greedy birds invade Wobbly Toad's garden in this cute tale of garden animal friends.Mole on Patrol is a lively story of fun and friendship set in a colourful vegetable...

Age 3+Luke won't play the trumpet Grandpa gave him until he discovers a seed Grandpa sent will only grow when it hears music.Luke the frog is too busy to play the trumpet his grandfather sent him, and when Grandpa sends him a seed, Luke is frustrated...

Age range 5+Six animal friends decide to clean up their jungle home, make musical instruments from the junk, and start an orchestra.When six animal friends see their beautiful jungle home covered in trash, they are all shocked and dismayed. But Monkey...

Age range 3+An informative picture book where readers guess the animal the illustrated toes belong to. Featuring twelve animals and their toes, this picture book invites readers to guess which animal the toes belong to. Accompanied with many animal fun...

Age range 5+Explores the alleged symbiotic relationship between crocodiles and Egyptian plovers in rhyming verse.All the creatures in the River Nile flee when they see the crocodile - all except one, that is. Unafraid, a little bird called a plover...

Age range 5+Pann Panda is going to Australia, and his forest friends help him decide what to pack in this story about thoughtful preparation.One day, Pann the Panda is relaxing and eating his favourite bamboo when he hears some exciting news. He has been...

Age range 3 to 6Left alone when his friends hibernate, Nico the fox makes a friend from snow and befriends a real snow fox in the process.Nico is a little red fox that spends spring, summer and autumn with his three friends, Ava, Olive and Linus. When...

*Shortlisted for the 2021 CBCA Award for New Illustrator*Age range 5+A flying boy and seven bees are chased by fleas, but an unexpected friendship forms.Bryce McFee is an ordinary boy bored with washing the flea-ridden family dog. So, he escapes to his...

Age range 5+Lilly and Billy can't imagine being apart, but when Billy wanders off, Lilly is distraught and must find her way.Lilly and Billy do everything together and can't imagine being apart. But when Billy wanders off, Lilly is left alone,...

Age range 9+Unique, folk-art style illustrations complement this tale of a kind-hearted monster who just wants to be accepted.A misfit wanders from village to village, looking for a place to call home, only to be driven away by terrified villagers. One...

Age range 3 to 6A day in the life of a seemingly hopeless, mistake-making dad, whose children know he is the world's best dad after all.In this light-hearted and cheerful story, three kids recount their funny experiences with the world's most hopeless...

Age range 5 to 9Melvin's relatives are travelling from all over to celebrate the Mice Festival at his home! It's an exciting event for the mice, with much fun and celebration to be had. Gifts are exchanged, and games are played, but Uncle Dom still...

Age range 3 to 6A boy tries to help a hungry polar bear stranded in his island village but needs his grandfather's help to get the bear home.Follow the funny story of a boy who tries to help the unexpected arrival to his small island town. One day, Henry...

Age range 5+A tale of friendship between a girl and her horse and a trip around the world, where the grass isn't always greener.Home is the best place on Earth, but an adventure is equally great. Tamlin is a very lucky horse with a great friend, Ruby...

Age range 5 to 9Entertaining text and dynamic illustrations introduce readers to various sporting events and animal species.Who do you think would win a gold medal in basketball - a team of lions, giraffes or chimpanzees? Who would swim the...

Age range 3 to 6Harriet is a stubborn child, who never says 'please' and hates being asked to do so. Because of her rudeness she misses out on many wonderful things. She decides this isn't fair and goes off to find a place where nobody ever says 'please...

*SHORTLISTED for the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2020*Age range 6 to 9Who do you think would win a game of ice hockey between a team of penguins or polar bears? Or perform the most acrobatic tricks on a snowboard, a whale or a dolphin? Or...

Age range 3 to 7This short, joyful rhyming picture book tells a story of growing up. It depicts the major milestones a young child reaches in the early years of development, such as walking, learning to eat independently, riding a bike, beginning to...

Age range 5 to 8A beautifully illustrated story of a mother bird protecting her young.Mother Fantail dreams of raising a happy family, and carefully prepares her nest, while Rat sniffs around for dinner. What will happen when their paths cross? A...

Age range 5 to 9Set in an African jungle, a warthog realises that everyone has worries and how to handle his worries. What are some of your worries? Ralph the worried warthog has plenty of worries, and they all seem impossible to overcome. A...

Age range 5 to 8In the middle of a great big river stands a single wooden post. It appears useless because the lone post cannot form a bridge by itself. The wooden post yearns for freedom and friendship. Its days are brightened when a shepherd boy sits...

Age range 3 to 5An easy, enjoyable read featuring quirky animal characters and a surprise ending.Muddle and Mo are the best of friends. Muddle is a loveable, slightly confused yet enthusiastic little duckling. Mo is a long-suffering, not very adventurous...

A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people.rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine's...

The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the...

In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast cancer and began writing in order to make sense of her diagnosis and treatment. Mourning a Breast, published two and a half years later, is a disarmingly honest and deeply...

Song in the Grass is Kate Fagan's most personal collection to date. Each of its five sequences moves out in a widening circle from where the poet is standing in life. The collection is an almanac of significant changes; in particular, new lives begun in...

Judith Beveridge's much-anticipated new collection of poems, the first since her prize-winning new and selected, Sun Music, in 2018.The poems in Tintinnabulum focus on animals, people, and places, though you could say that the real subject matter is the...

Naag Mountain is a journey across oceans, from the Asian subcontinent to the South Seas, a journey about human trafficking on sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia, which brings to life the histories and events, the stories and myths of a displaced and...

'I can talk for as long as you like, no problem. You'll just have to tell me when to stop. How far back do you want to take it?'Tell is a probing and compelling examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own lives and of other people's...

In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious...

An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy's fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past -...

The new novel from the author of The Magpie Wing, longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.It's 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that...

Powerful debut which interrogates the nature of love in its various formsFrom poems of desire and sexual longing to poems of love in the face of death, The Cyprian explores the joy and heartbreak love weaves into our lives. The collection confronts some...

How to Be Between is a memoir about female facial hair, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and negotiating identity for those visibly between gender binaries. Young women's bodies are relentlessly scrutinised and judged, so for most, the appearance of facial...

The last work by Antigone Kefala, renowned for both her poetry and her prose, one of the first writers to open Australian literature to a diversity of voices, and of the most distinctive and powerful of those voices.Late Journals completes a trilogy of...

*Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize**Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022*Happy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often...

New collection, ten years in the making, by one of Australia's richest lyrical poets.Acanthus offers a collection of poems that dwell in the landscapes of the northern and southern hemispheres, evoking myth and fantasy and romance, as they move between...

The poems in Human Looking speak with the voices of the disabled and the disfigured, in ways which are confronting, but also illuminating and tender. They speak of surgical interventions, and of the different kinds of disability which they seek to...

Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as 'a genius on the level of Beckett'.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane's...