Kids & YA

Who doesn’t love a story about our fluffy companions? While the kids are busy playing with the dog you can put on one of these dog themed audio books and celebrate just how wonderful dogs are! Hairy Maclary and Friends by Lynley Dodd Hairy Maclary may be a popular dog, but he also has a […] - Read more

Charlotte Perkins is Seven years old and can’t wait to grow up – if only she could decide what she wanted to be! Luckily, no dream is too big for little Lottie Perkins. Author Katrina Nannestad tells us about her childhood dreams. Words| Katrina Nannestad Can you recall your childhood dreams? What did you want […] - Read more

The shortlist for this year’s Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Nielsen Book Data Booksellers Choice Award has been announced and congratulations to Jessica Townsend and Sally Rippin for making the list with Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow and Polly and Buster: The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster. If you haven’t yet picked up a copy of […] - Read more

Seven-year-old Charlotte Perkins has lots of personality and a huge imagination. Ready to try anything and everything she sometimes finds herself in a spot of bother. However, that doesn’t stop her as she continues to daydream about being in the spotlight. Joined by her best friend Sam, who helps her follow all her dreams and […] - Read more

Whenever we visit a bookshop we stop by the children’s novelty shelf, to discover the ingenious books that have been transformed into interactive objects through paper engineering or the addition of scanimation, holographs or textured elements to ‘touch-and-feel’. One of the most simple and appealing examples of paper engineering is lift-the-flap books, in which a […] - Read more

Start reading here Jane Doe or Subject Six-Eight-Four, hasn’t spoken a word since she entered Lengard, a secret government facility for people with special abilities.  After enduring a gruelling daily regime of psychological assessments, physical training sessions and thinly veiled torture, Jane can barely remember what life was like before she entered Lengard two and […] - Read more

Listen to the podcast In the first of our kids podcasts Cheryl Akle talks to creative duo Andrew Hansen and Jessica Roberts about their new children’s series, Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies: The Weird Beard. Andrew and Jessica talk about being partners on this project and partners in life, the inspiration behind Bab Sharkey and […] - Read more

A new superhero and two new series, kids are spoilt for choice this month. These are our top picks. Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks A beautiful and inspiring collection of stories about boys who changed the world without killing a single dragon or saving a single princess. Daniel Radcliffe, […] - Read more

Jane Doe or Subject Six-Eight-Four, hasn’t spoken a word since she entered Lengard, a secret government facility for people with special abilities. After enduring a gruelling daily regime of psychological assessments, physical training sessions and thinly veiled torture, Jane can barely remember what life was like before she entered Lengard two and a half years […] - Read more

Start reading now Twelve-year-old Bab Sharkey is living with his mum, an archaeologist on a dig site in Egypt – something that most kids could only dream of! Thrown out of school because he is smarter than the teachers, Bab loves spending time with his over protective mum (she wraps him in bubble wrap each […] - Read more