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: Children's Non-Fiction
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
Scar Town by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction
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
Inkflower by Suzy Zail
$22.99 AUD
Category: 2024 CBCA Shortlist
A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healing. Based on a true story.Lisa’s father has six months to live. And a story to tell about a boy sent to Auschwitz. A boy who lost everything and started again. A story he has kept hidden – until now.But Lisa doesn’t want to hear it, because she has s ...Show more
Grace Notes by Karen Comer
$19.99 AUD
Category: 2024 CBCA Shortlist
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 Concrete Garden by Bob Graham
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
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
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly!: A Celebration of Blak Excellence by Corey Tutt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
This Book Thinks Ya Deadly! is an inspirational, illustrated compendium that celebrates the diversity and success of First Nations People. Written by Corey Tutt, author of The First Scientists, this book features the profiles of 80 Blakfellas who are doing deadly things across sport, art, activism and s ...Show more
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: 2024 CBCA Shortlist | 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
Can You Teach a Fish to Climb a Tree? by Jane Godwin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
‘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
Country Town by Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
Age range 9 to 12 Happy times, sad times, boom times and gloom times! From the First Peoples camp at the river crossing in the 1820s through to Carols by Candlelight at the showground in today’s world, this is a decade by decade wonderfully illustrated story of a small country community.
Let's Never Speak of This Again by Megan Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: 2024 CBCA Shortlist
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
The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: 2024 CBCA Shortlist
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
Australia: Country of Colour by Jess Racklyeft
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Picture Hardbacks
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.