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  • Zola and the Christmas Lights
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    Zola and the Christmas Lights

    Celebrate community, kindness, hope and all the wonder of the festive season in a heartwarming Christmas picture book from the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta and joyous illustrator Deb Hudson. This year, Zola and Alessandro...
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  • Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers
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    Slinky Malinki's Christmas Crackers

    A very special, cased board-book edition of this favourite Lynley Dodd story featuring the naughty cat Slinky Malinki, who meddles nonstop with the Christmas tree - the perfect stocking-filler for preschoolers!  Sneaky Slinky Malinki is creating mayhem...
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  • Hound the Detective
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    Hound the Detective

    Search for clues hidden in the pictures and help Hound to solve the riddle in this delightful return to the world of Puffin the Architect. I’m Hound! And I’m a sleuth. I solve all types of cases. I sniff and snuff until my nose detects the clues and...
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  • Hairy Maclary and Friends Little Library
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    Hairy Maclary and Friends Little Library

    What do Hairy Maclary and his friends like to do? Find out in this rollicking little box of books! The Hairy Maclary and Friends Little Library introduces the mischievous Hairy Maclary and his gang in a set of books that are perfect for little hands...
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    Girl Stuff 8-12
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    Girl Stuff 8-12

    Here's everything you need to know about being a pre-teen, from Kaz Cooke, author of Girl Stuff for teens. * body changes * dealing with friends & bullies * getting confident * first periods * pimples * hair (wherever it is) * phones & being online *...
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  • Fault in Our Stars
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    Fault in Our Stars

    Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid...
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    Things a Map Won't Show You
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    Things a Map Won't Show You

    Sometimes funny, sometimes dramatic, always compelling, this collection featuring both established writers and emerging talent will broaden your horizons and excite your imagination. A boy who tries to fly, a cricket game in a refugee centre, a...
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  • Today We Have No Plans
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    Today We Have No Plans

    Award-winning author Jane Godwin and illustrator Anna Walker have created this delightful picture book about families' busy lives. This ebook edition features Jane Godwin reading the story aloud, and includes highlighting of words so the child is able to...
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  • Come Down  Cat!
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    Come Down Cat!

    The day is ending, night is falling, and Nicholas's cat won't come down. High on the roof she licks her paws while Nicholas worries about her up there all alone. How does he coax her into the safe, warm house? She doesn't even want to come down from the...
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  • Baby Bedtime
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    Baby Bedtime

    A lullaby to babies everywhere, Baby Bedtime is a lyrical tribute to the love inspired by the little people in our lives. This enchanting read-aloud story combines the talents of Australia's premier picture-book writer, Mem Fox, author of Possum Magic...
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  • Something Wonderful
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    Something Wonderful

    An inspirational story about discovery, invention and the importance of dreams. Sam likes to pull things apart and put them back together, and think about how things work. But he is sometimes so busy doing this, he forgets his chores on the family farm...
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  • What Do You Wish For?
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    What Do You Wish For?

    Best selling children's book creators (Jane Godwin and Anna Walker) bring the magic of Christmas into our hearts and homes. Fun, presents, sparkly lights and Christmas Wishes. From this much-loved creative partnership comes a sparkling and beautiful...
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  • Our Island
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    Our Island

    Much-loved children's picture-book creators authors Alison Lester and Elizabeth Honey collaborate on this lyrical celebration of place, where the children of Mornington Island explore their home in words and pictures. Our island lies beneath a big blue...
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  • Slinky Malinki, Early Bird
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    Slinky Malinki, Early Bird

    'Pesky old slinky!' the family moaned, 'You woke us too early!' they grumbled and groaned. Slinky Malinki likes to wake up early in the morning and he thinks his family should too.  About the Author Lynley Dodd is New Zealand's bestselling children's...
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  • Stanley Paste
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    Stanley Paste

    Stanley Paste is small. Really small. And he hates it. But when a new girl arrives at school, Stanley learns that perhaps being small is not so bad after all.
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  • The Terrible Plop
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    The Terrible Plop

    From the author of The Carousel comes a delightful new picture book about a little rabbit who learns that some things in life aren't as scary as they seem. Andrew Joyner's bright, energetic illustrations and Ursula's lively rhyming text combine to make...
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  • The Midnight Zoo
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    The Midnight Zoo

    Under cover of darkness, two brothers cross a war-ravaged countryside carrying a secret bundle. One night they stumble across a deserted town reduced to smouldering ruins. But at the end of a blackened street they find a small green miracle- a zoo filled...
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  • Big Red Hen and the Little Lost Egg
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    Big Red Hen and the Little Lost Egg

    Big Red Hen looks after everyone else's babies, but what she wants most of all is someone special of her own to love . . .  'The magic created in this lovely tale is the kind of delight expected from its author and illustrator; two of Australia's...
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  • Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
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    Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

    Out of the gate and off for a walk went Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy Hairy Maclary's friends join him for a walk until, with a sudden yowl, a wail and a howl, they all run off. What could have caused such a scatter of paws?
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  • Pearl Barley & Charlie Parsley
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    Pearl Barley & Charlie Parsley

    Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are the best of friends. But they are different in almost every way . . . Pearl likes solving mysteries and moves rather fast in the world. Charlie likes taking baths and watching his garden grow. So how can Pearl...
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  • Where Is the Green Sheep?
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    Where Is the Green Sheep?

    Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep?
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  • Uno's Garden
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    Uno's Garden

    When Uno arrives in the forest one beautiful day, there are many fascinating and extraordinary animals there to greet him. And one entirely unexceptional Snortlepig. Uno loves the forest so much, he decides to live there. But, in time, a little village...
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  • Big Rain Coming
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    Big Rain Coming

    Big Rain Coming Big Rain Coming by Katrina Germein is a beautifully illustrated children's book that captures the anticipation of rain in a remote Australian community. With evocative prose and vibrant artwork, this story brings to life the rhythms of...
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  • Ickypedia
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    Ickypedia

    From ALPHABURP* to ZINKLEGRITTING,** the ICKYPEDIA has some of the most ridiculous, stupid and GROSSTASTIC*** words you've never heard. FRUIN To ruin a perfectly unhealthy snack by adding fruit to it. SPEWTIFUL A beautiful spew. See also POOTIFUL. UDDER...
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  • Lockie Leonard
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    Lockie Leonard

    Bestselling author, Tim Winton, delivers the iconic trio of books that are still the foremost definitive texts on contemporary Australian life for teenage boys. Lockie's survived his first year of high school, settling into a new town and his first mad...
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  • Children of the King
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    Children of the King

    hree children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure. Three children have been sent to live in the...
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  • Runner
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    Runner

    It's 1919, Richmond football club is on top of the ladder, cream buns are threepence each and four boys are gunning for the best job in town. Charlie is lucky enough to win the prime job - running messages for Squizzy Taylor, the most dangerous gangster...
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  • Once
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    Once

    Winner - Australian Book Industry Awards 2011 Winner - YABBA Children's Choice Awards 2007 Winner - KOALA Children's Choice Awards 2007 Honour Award - CBC Book of the Year 2006 Honour Award - Sydney Taylor (Jewish) Award 2011 Once I escaped from an...
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  • Specky Magee and a Legend in the Making
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    Specky Magee and a Legend in the Making

    Specky can't wait to get to the country and have the chance to play grassroots football for the first time . . . against adults. But more is at stake than the outcome of just one game.   The Booyong High Bugle Footy News! Only last month, former...
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  • Little Brother
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    Little Brother

    The shots were so close they seemed to explode inside Vithy's head. He threw himself to the ground and clapped his hands over his ears . . . It's Cambodia. The killing machine that is the Khmer Rouge is in power. Vithy has lost everyone and everything...
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  • The Silver Donkey
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    The Silver Donkey

    One bright spring morning in the woods of France, a soldier, blinded by the war, is found by a little girl named Coco, and her older sister Marcelle. In return for their kindness, the soldier tells the sisters marvellous tales, each story connected to...
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  • Camel Rider
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    Camel Rider

    Adam and his family live in a compound with other foreigners who work in the Middle East. He's got everything he wants, everything he needs, and there's a lot he takes for granted. Then war breaks out, and, in the confusion to escape, Adam runs away. It...
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  • Deadly! Bindup
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    Deadly! Bindup

    ALL SIX BOOKS IN ONE! Join Amy and Sprocket as they uncover deadly secret after deadly secret on the most tumultuous journey of their lives. An adventure full of delight, terror, tears and laughter, DEADLY!will leave you gasping. IT'S DARING! IT'S...
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    Learning How to Learn
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    Learning How to Learn

    A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course Learning How to Learn have...
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  • Swerve
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    Swerve

    Hugh is 16. He loves cello, he's a closet car fanatic, and he has no luck with girls. When his grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on one last road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HG Monaro GTS 350 V8, Hugh decides, for once in his life, to do the...
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  • Saving Francesca
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    Saving Francesca

    A memorable and much-loved Australian classic told with humour, compassion and joy, from the internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi. Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all...
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  • A Christmas Carol
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    A Christmas Carol

    With A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens created a modern fairy tale and shaped our ideas of Christmas. The tale of the solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of the season by a series of ghostly visitors and given a second chance,...
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  • Happy Christmas from the Very Hungry Caterpillar
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    Happy Christmas from the Very Hungry Caterpillar

    It's Christmas with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Christmas is. . . sharing with others . . . giving gifts with love . . . enjoying the magic of the season Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar for a celebration of Christmas and all the ways to wish the ones...
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  • We're All Wonders
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    We're All Wonders

    I know I can't change the way I look. But maybe, just maybe, people can change the way they see . . . Wonder is the unforgettable story of August Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. With over 5 million copies sold, Wonder is a true...
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  • Each Peach Pear Plum board book
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    Each Peach Pear Plum board book

    Each Peach Pear Plum is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to find the next...
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  • I Love Dad with the Very Hungry Caterpillar
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    I Love Dad with the Very Hungry Caterpillar

    This gorgeous little gift book from The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the perfect way to say, 'I Love You, Dad!' Dad...you're easy to talk to...even when I am feeling prickly...you are always there...that's why I love you, Dad! Join The Very Hungry...
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  • Last Stop on Market Street
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    Last Stop on Market Street

    Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award, this groundbreaking picture book explores urban life through the eyes of a young boy and his nana. CJ discovers that there is beauty, interest and excitement everywhere he looks, in this evocative story told...
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    BFG (Colour Edition)
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    BFG (Colour Edition)

    Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and...
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  • George's Marvellous Medicine (Colour Edn)
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    George's Marvellous Medicine (Colour Edn)

    George Kranky's Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman. One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do. A magic medicine* it will...
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  • Stone Cold
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    Stone Cold

    A tense thriller about a serial killer targeting homeless youngsters; STONE COLD won the Carnegie Medal and is now part of the Originals, showcasing Penguin's very best modern classics for young adults. A tense, exciting thriller combined with a...
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Kids, Teens & YA Books

Discover the Best Kids & Young Adult Books!

At Book Loop, we believe every child deserves stories that spark curiosity, nurture confidence, and support emotional growth — from the earliest baby board books to the boldest young adult novels. Our Kids & YA collection brings together a wide range of engaging, age-appropriate books for babies, toddlers, children, tweens, and teens, carefully selected to suit every stage of growing up.

You can start with our range of kids books and children's books carefully chosen to inspire, support, and entertain young readers of all ages. From baby books and toddler books to picture books and board books, we’ve got stories that help build early literacy, emotional awareness, and a lifelong love of reading. Parents looking for books for 5 year olds, books for 8 year olds, or books for early readers will find titles that are both educational and engaging.

Our selection of chapter books, books for tweens, and young adult books includes some of the best YA fiction and teen books available today. We feature top YA books and bestselling kids books that explore real-life issues like identity, relationships, and growing up — perfect for teens and young adults navigating their world. If you’re searching for mental health books for teens, or stories about resilience and confidence, you’re in the right place.

For the littlest readers, you’ll find colourful board books and first-word stories that support early learning and sensory development. Toddlers and preschoolers will love interactive picture books that make storytime magical, while early readers can explore beginner chapter books that build literacy skills and imagination.

Our collection for primary-aged kids includes popular fiction, funny chapter books, graphic novels, and educational books that encourage a lifelong love of reading. You’ll also find a growing selection of books on wellbeing — including titles on ADHD, emotional regulation, self-esteem, and body image — designed to help kids understand themselves and the world around them.

For older readers and young adults, we stock bestselling YA fiction, contemporary novels, and non-fiction books on topics like identity, mental health, relationships, and resilience. Whether it’s a gripping dystopian read, a coming-of-age romance, or a guide to surviving high school, our teen books speak directly to the challenges and triumphs of growing up.

We’re proud to feature books by Australian authors and diverse stories that reflect a range of experiences and voices. Whether you're looking for bedtime stories for babies, books to support emotional wellbeing, or powerful YA fiction for teens, you’ll find it all here at Book Loop.

Explore our Kids & YA book category today — and find the perfect story for every young reader.