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Children's Book Council of Australia Awards

These annual awards are for books with an implied readership under the age of eighteen, and are presented in five categories. The first Australian Children's Book of the Year Award was made in 1946. At that time and until 1952, there was only one award. The Picture Book of the Year Award was established as a separate award in 1952. Until 1982, there was no division between Older and Younger Readers. The Eve Pownall Award for information books was presented by Eve Pownall's family in 1988, then by the Children's Book Council from 1993. The Early Childhood Award was introduced in 2001.

2010 Older Readers Shortlist

Stolen

Author: Lucy Christopher
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Told in a moving letter to her captor, sixteen-year-old Gemma relives her kidnapping from Bangkok airport while on holiday. Taken by Ty, her troubled young stalker, to the wild and desolate Australian outback, she reflec ...

RRP	$17.99
Price	$16.19

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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The Winds of Heaven

Author: Judith Clarke
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

When Fan was little she dreamed of magical countries in the faraway blue hills. And as she grew up she dreamed of love, and the boys came after her one by one by one. Clementine thought her cousin Fan's house in the coun ...

RRP	$22.99
Price	$20.69

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Liar

Author: Justine Larbalestier
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - General
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Micah Wilkins is a liar. But when her boyfriend, Zach, dies under brutal circumstances, the shock might be enough to set her straight. Or maybe not. Especially when lying comes as naturally to her as breathing. Was Micah ...

RRP	$22.99
Price	$20.69

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Jarvis 24

Author: David Metzenthen
Category:Childrens Fiction - Love & Romance

Awkward, funny and poignant, Jarvis 24 places the reader in the mind of 16-year-old Marc Jarvis, who tries to step outside the boundaries of his private school life by taking on work experience for two weeks in a car yar ...

RRP	$19.95
Price	$17.96

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

Author: Glenda Millard
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Current Year Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Current Year Years 7-8

Skip's an outsider, a quiet observer. He draws pictures to make sense of the world. He's never fitted in. So he takes to the streets. Life there may be hard, but it's better than the one he's left, especially when he tea ...

RRP	$16.95
Price	$15.26

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Loving Richard Feynman

Author: Penny Tangey
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Richard Feynman is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Catherine is a science-loving 15-year-old. Richard invented the atom bomb Catherine's just trying to survive school. When your life is falling apart around you, is talk ...

RRP	$17.95
Price	$16.16

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Younger Readers Shortlist

Matty Forever

Author: Elizabeth Fensham
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 5-6

Bill made a dash for it. He had never run so fast in his life. When he got back to Mat, he threw the bag of lollies at her feet like a knight might throw jewels at the feet of a princess. 'Am ...I ...in the club?' gasped ...

RRP	$14.95
Price	$13.46

Approx Delivery
10-15 Days

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Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool

Author: Odo Hirsch
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

The Bell family is in danger of losing their honourable name. Can Darius step up to the challenge and uphold it? A warm, wise story from one of Australia's master storytellers, about a boy, his friends, his family, and t ...

RRP	$15.95
Price	$14.36

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Running with the Horses

Author: Alison Lester
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Current Year Years 5-6

Ten-year-old Nina lives with her father above the palace stables at the Royal Academy of Dancing Horses. She loves watching the famous white stallions as they parade for the crowds, but her favourite horse is an ordinary ...

RRP	$29.95
Price	$26.96

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1-2 Days

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The Whisperer

Author: Fiona Mcintosh
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore Country/Ethnic-General
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Griff is an ordinary boy, working at a circus - but he has an extraordinary ability. He can receive people's thoughts, although in an unfocused way. When the circus master decides to exploit this talent, disaster ensues. ...

RRP	$19.99
Price	$17.99

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1-2 Days

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Pearl Verses the World

Author: Sally Murphy
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Death & Dying
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 5-6

At school, Pearl feels as though she is in a group of one. Her teacher wants her to write poems that rhyme but Pearl's poems don't. But when her grandmother passes away, she finds the courage to deliver a poem that defie ...

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Price	$13.46

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1-2 Days

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Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children

Author: Jennifer Storer
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore Country/Ethnic-General
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

A wonderfully gothic adventure story about a horrid orphanage, fallen angels, wicked water spirits, and a gutsy little orphan called Tensy Farlow, who has something that everyone wants... and are willing to get at all co ...

RRP	$19.95
Price	$17.96

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1-2 Days

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Early Childhood Shortlist

The Wrong Book

Author: Nick Bland
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Nicholas Ickle is trying to tell a story, but he keeps getting interrupted by characters from other stories - a pirate, a queen, even some monsters! To get a chance to tell his story, he has to convince the others that t ...

RRP	$15.99
Price	$14.39

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1-2 Days

Kip

Author: Christina Booth
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

When Kip finds his voice and begins to crow he causes all sorts of problems for Mrs Bea's neighbours. Reluctantly Mrs Bea sends him away but much to the neighbours surprise life is not as good as they thought it would be ...

RRP	$14.95
Price	$13.46

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1-2 Days

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The Terrible Plop

Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years K-2

Here is the story of the terrible PLOP, with a bear and a rabbit and a hop hop hop. But what is the PLOP? And where does it hide? Open the book and look inside... Ages 3+.

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

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1-2 Days

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Clancy and Millie the Very Fine House

Author: Freya Blackwood & Libby Gleeson
Category:Childrens Fiction -
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years K-2

Clancy has just moved house. He is missing his old house terribly - the new house is much too big and much too lonely. How will he ever make it his home? As despair takes hold, Clancy hears a small voice. Soon, Clancy wi ...

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Bear and Chook by the Sea

Author: Lisa Shanahan
Category:Crafts & Hobbies - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years K-2

Bear and Chook are unexpected friends. Bear likes adventure and Chook would much rather have the quiet life! One day they decide to go and visit the sea. Chook is worried that they don't know the way and will get lost, b ...

RRP	$16.99
Price	$15.29

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Fearless

Author: Colin Thompson
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 3-4

When a new baby is born its difficult to tell if it will grow up to be big or small or brave or scared of the dark and spiders. sometimes babies get the wrong name. Its the same with dogs. So when the Claybourne-Willment ...

RRP	$24.99
Price	$22.49

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1-2 Days

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Picture Book Shortlist

Schumann the Shoeman

Author: Stella Danalis & John Danalis
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 3-4

Schumann the Shoeman was adored for two reasons. The first was for the shoes that he made, which were not only dazzlingly beautiful, but they also lasted a lifetime and no two pairs were ever the same. The second reason ...

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

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10-15 Days

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To the Top End

Author: Roland Harvey
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 3-4

Another fabulous Roland Harvey holiday book exploring some of the most spectacular landscapes of Australia, full of adventure, mishaps, and madcap activity.

RRP	$24.99
Price	$22.49

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1-2 Days

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Mr Chicken Goes to Paris

Author: Leigh Hobbs
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - Action & Adventure
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 3-4
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Current Year Years 3-4

Mr Chicken has taken up his friend Yvette's invitation to visit Paris. As they journey together through the City of Love, Mr Chicken is overcome by the magic of all it has to offer - and the inhabitants of this most styl ...

RRP	$24.99
Price	$22.49

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Isabella's Garden

Author: Glenda Millard
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 3-4

Following the well-known structure of The House That Jack Built, this tells the tale of growth and seasonal change, beginnng and ending with 'the seeds that slept in the soil all dark and deep' and how they bloom and flo ...

RRP	$27.95
Price	$25.16

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Picture Book Shortlist

Fox and Fine Feathers

Author: Narelle Oliver
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Lyrebird, Coucal, Pitta and Nightjar are birds of the forest floor. Although as different as it is possible to be, they always look out for danger and warn each other to hide. One day, Lyrebird, Coucal and Pitta forget t ...

RRP	$15.99
Price	$12.79

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Picture Book Shortlist

The Hero of Little Street

Author: Gregory Rogers
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Concepts
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 7-8

Escaping from a gang of bullies, a Boy slips into a grand old gallery - the perfect hiding place, full of mystery and treasures. Enchanted by the magic of painting and befriended by a mischievous dog, the Boy ventures in ...

RRP	$29.99
Price	$26.99

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1-2 Days

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Information Books Shortlist

Prehistoric giants

Author: Danielle Clode
Category:Nature - Dinosaurs

In the Footsteps of Giants, the second in the Museum Victoria Nature series, introduces the reader to the amazing world of Australian megafauna in the Pleistoceine era. Imagine an Australian landscape in which Diprotodon ...

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

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M is for Mates

Author: Australia
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Animals Foxes & Wolves
Category:Childrens Fiction -

This education book is designed for primary students and is an alphabetic book about the contribution made by animals in wartime and peace operations.

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

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1-2 Days

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Australian Backyard Explorer

Author: Peter Macinnis
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Language Arts
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Reference
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Current Year Years 7-8
Category:True Stories - General

Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little-known explorers as well as the old favou ...

RRP	$29.95
Price	$26.96

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10-15 Days

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Polar Eyes

Author: Tanya Patrick
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Animals Foxes & Wolves

Where do penguins go to dance? What is it like to sleep in an igloo? And have you ever wondered how ancient ice can be used as a time machine? Discover the answers and more in Polar Eyes, a new interactive children’s bo ...

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Lost! A True Tale from the Bush

Author: Stephanie Owen Reeder
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - General

Tales of children lost in the bush have frightened and fascinated Australians public since colonial times. In August 1864, three childrenIsaac aged nine, Jane aged seven and Frank aged threesurvived nine long days and ei ...

RRP	$29.95
Price	$26.96

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1-2 Days

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Maralinga - the Anangu Story

Author: and Oak Valley Com Yalata
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History

In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, describe what happened in the Maralinga Tjarutja lands of South Australia before the bombs and after. This is an extraordi ...

RRP	$35.00
Price	$31.50

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1-2 Days

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2009 Book of the Year - Older Readers

Tales from Outer Suburbia

Author: Shaun Tan
Category:Childrens Fiction -
Category:Childrens Fiction - Short Stories
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 9-10

Do you remember the water buffalo at the end of our street? Or the deep-sea diver we found near the underpass? Do you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night? Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and T ...

RRP	$35.00
Price	$31.50

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Perry Angel's Suitcase

Author: Glenda Millard
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 3-4

It has taken Perry Angel almost seven years to find the place where he belongs. A heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting story about lost, human kindness, being yourself and finding your place in the world. Ages 7+.

RRP	$14.95
Price	$13.46

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

How to Heal a Broken Wing

Author: Bob Graham
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years K-2

This work presents an introduction to the ideas of computer programming within the context of the visual arts that also serves as a reference and text for Processing, an open-source programming language designed for crea ...

RRP	$27.95
Price	$25.16

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7-10 Days

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Picture Book of the Year

Collecting Colour

Author: Kylie Dunstan
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Art
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Rose and Olive spend a day out in the bush helping Olive's mother, Garang, to gather the pandanus leaves and stringy bark for making into strong bags and baskets.They collect the colour for the baskets from special plant ...

RRP	$16.99
Price	$15.29

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Alive in the Death Zone

Author: Lincoln Hall
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Health
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - General

Lincoln Hall's story of climbing the world's highest mountain, being left for dead near the summit and his subsequent return to life and safety is an incredible and exciting adventure that will inspire anyone who reads i ...

RRP	$19.95
Price	$17.96

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Crichton Award for New Illustrators

Mending Lucille

Author: J.R. Poulter
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Death & Dying
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 3-4

An insightful picture book about one girl's loss of her mother. Mending Lucille charts the process of grief and healing through a young girl's attachment to a broken doll, Lucille. One day, she and her father meet Chriss ...

RRP	$28.99
Price	$26.09

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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2008 Book of the Year - Older Readers

The Ghost's Child

Author: Sonya Hartnett
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore Country/Ethnic-General
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 9-10

The sky was pitch, and gashed by lightning; loutish waves rose and slumped heavily as mudslides. At a moment when she was filled with desperation, Maddy opened her mouth and yelled for Feather. And half-expected him to a ...

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Dragon Moon

Author: Carole Wilkinson
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore Country/Ethnic-General
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Ancient China. Han Dynasty. Ping and Kai have travelled far, but their journey is not yet over. Danger stalks them. Ping must find Kai a safe place. But how? When a hidden message from Danzi makes the way clear, Ping kno ...

RRP	$19.99
Price	$17.99

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley

Author: Aaron Blabey
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years K-2
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years P-2

Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley are different in every way. Pearly Barley loves death-defying missions, solving mysteries, talking loudly and is a terrible show off. Charlie parsley prefers reading in quiet places to ju ...

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

Approx Delivery
10-15 Days

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Picture Book of the Year

Requiem for a Beast

Author: Matthew Ottley
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

We are largely defined by how we face our fears. A boy goes on a melancholy, often terrifying but ultimately life-affirming journey of self-discovery as a stockman in far North Queensland. In an exquisitely illustrated c ...

RRP	$39.99
Price	$35.99

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

Multi Media Product

Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Parsley Rabbit's Book About Books

Author: Frances Watts
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 3-4
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years P-2

Takes the reader on a hilarious and stimulating journey through the world of books. An absolute treasure of a book for children from 3 - 7 years.

RRP	$19.95
Price	$17.96

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Crichton Award for New Illustrators

Santa's Aussie Holiday

Author: Maria Farrer
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years K-2
Category:Reference - General
Category:Religion - Holidays Christmas

Each year Santa likes to have some fun, a chance to get some rest and sun he spins his globe for inspiration and finds a perfect destination...Australia! Join Santa and his new Aussie mates as they travel around Australi ...

RRP	$15.99
Price	$14.39

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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2007 Book of the Year - Older Readers

Red Spikes

Author: Margo Lanagan
Category:Childrens Fiction - Short Stories
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 9-10

Ten electrifying new stories from Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juiceand White Time. 'Lanagan is in a class of her own.' Weekend Australian'The genius (not too strong a word) of Margo Lanagan i ...

RRP	$17.95
Price	$16.16

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Being Bee

Author: Catherine Bateson
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8

Since her mother died it had been just her, her dad, and her guinea pigs, Lulu and Fifi. A perfect non-nuclear family, but nothing stays the same forever. Ages 9-12.

RRP	$16.95
Price	$15.26

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

Amy and Louis

Author: Libby Gleeson & Freya Blackwood
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Amy and Louis live next door to each other, and their lives are closely intertwined. Theirs is a life rich in imagination. But when Amy's family move to another country, the children are separated, and the colour drains ...

RRP	$15.99
Price	$14.39

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Picture Book of the Year

The Arrival

Author: Shaun Tan
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 7-8

The Arrival is a 128 page book of illustrations without words, a silent graphic novel. Through a series of connecting images, it tells the story of a migrant leaving his home, crossing an ocean to a strange new city and ...

RRP	$39.99
Price	$35.99

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

The Penguin Book

Author: Mark Norman
Category:Nature - Birds & Birdwatching
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 3-4

Some are shy, some are curious and some are grumpy enough to give you a slap as you walk by, but all penguins are amazing. This tells of 17 penguin species - those that live in deserts and rocky landscapes, and ice dwell ...

RRP	$16.99
Price	$15.29

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7-10 Days

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2006 Book of the Year - Older Readers

The Story of Tom Brennan

Author: J.C. Burke
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 9-10

For seventeen-year-old Tom, life is about rugby, his mates and his family, who are well respected in their small country town. But a night of celebration changes his life forever. Tom's older brother, Daniel, starts a fi ...

RRP	$17.95
Price	$16.16

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Helicopter Man

Author: Elizabeth Fensham
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 7-8

Pete's dad is being pursued by a secret organisation and both their lives are in danger. That's why they never stay in the same place long, and always stay out of sight. Pete knows he leads an unusual life for a twelve y ...

RRP	$14.95
Price	$13.46

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7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

Annie's Chair

Author: Deborah Niland
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Annie loves her chair. She can curl up and read her books or watch TV, play with her toys or hide, be a fairy queen or bounce. No one is allowed on Annie's chair. Not Mum, not Dad and definitely not her brother Jack.

RRP	$14.95
Price	$13.46

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7-10 Days

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Picture Book of the Year

Short and Incredibly Happy Life

Author: Colin Thompson
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Human beings live for quite a long time and for a lot of that time we are not happy. We want to be taller, shorter, fatter, thinner, older and younger. Rats live for quite a short time and for most of that time they are ...

RRP	$16.99
Price	$15.29

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7-10 Days

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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Scarecrow Army

Author: Leon Davidson
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - History
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 9-10

On 25 April 1915, thousands of Australians and New Zealanders landed at an unnamed cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. They had come to fight the Turks. They thought the battle would be over in three days, but months later ...

RRP	$18.99
Price	$17.09

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7-10 Days

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2005 Book of the Year - Older Readers

The Running Man

Author: Michael Gerard Bauer
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 9-10

Fourteen-year-old Joseph is drawing a portrait of his silent, brooding neighbour, Vietnam War veteran Tom Leighton. By seeing beyond the rumours and gossip that surround Tom, Joseph's own horror of the running man recede ...

RRP	$19.99
Price	$17.99

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7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

The Silver Donkey

Author: Sonya Hartnett
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

A stunning fable-like classic children's novel set in France in WWI from this multi-award- winning author. Marcelle and Coco find the temporarily blind English soldier sheltering in the woods above their house. Ages 6+.

RRP	$19.95
Price	$17.96

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7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

Where is the Green Sheep?

Author: Judy Horacek & Mem Fox
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Wonderful characters and wonderfully illustrated. 2005 Children's Book of the Year for Early Childhood. Ages 3+.

RRP	$14.95
Price	$14.95

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7-10 Days

Board Book

Picture Book of the Year

Are We There Yet?

Author: Alison Lester
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - Family
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 3-4
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 3-4

The year I turned eight, Mum and Dad took us on a trip around Australia. Luke, Billy and I missed school for the whole winter term. Join Grace and her family on their adventurous and sometimes funny expedition. A warm, h ...

RRP	$24.95
Price	$22.46

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

To the Moon and Back

Author: Jackie French & Bryan Sullivan
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Science & Technology
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6

When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and sent the first television pictures to the world. They were from Honeysuckle Creek in the ACT. This is their ...

RRP	$14.95
Price	$13.46

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7-10 Days

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2004 Book of the Year - Older Readers

Saving Francesca

Author: Melina Marchetta
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boys school that has just begun accepting girls. She still misses her friends and to make things worse her mother has had a breakdown.

RRP	$19.95
Price	$17.96

Approx Delivery
7-10 Days

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Dragonkeeper

Author: Carole Wilkinson
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore
Category:Childrens Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore Country/Ethnic-General
Category:Childrens Fiction - Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Ancient China, Han Dynasty. A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl and the dragon make an epic journey across China carrying a mysteri ...

RRP	$19.99
Price	$17.99

Approx Delivery
1-2 Days

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

Grandpa and Thomas

Author: Pamela Allen
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Thomas and Grandpa go to the beach. Together, they feed the gulls, build a sandcastle, have a picnic and splash in the water. Then at the end of the day, Grandpa takes a sleepy Thomas home. Ages 3+.

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Picture Book of the Year

Cat and Fish

Author: Joan Grant
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Cat and Fish discover each other one night and spark a most unlikely friendship. As they teach each other about the worlds of the land and the sea, they find they share a common sense of adventure. Through mazes, under h ...

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2003 Book of the Year - Older Readers

The Messenger

Author: Markus Zusak
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8

Meet Ed Kennedy, cab-driving prodigy, pathetic card player, and useless at sex (self-proclaimed). His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence - until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery! That's when the first ...

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Rain May & Captain Daniel

Author: Catherine Bateson
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6

A story that zooms light years across the universe: a new town, a dream home and a successful life are what Rain May and her Mum discover together. Ages 9+

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

A Year on Our Farm

Author: Penny Matthews
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Animals
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Animals Farm Animals
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Lifestyles (Country Life)

Every month of the year there is a different job to do on a small Australian farm. 'A Year On Our Farm' shows the passing of the seasons through the eyes of children for whom the farm, with all its animals, is home. Ages ...

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Picture Book of the Year

In Flanders Fields

Author: Norman Jorgensen & Brian Harrison-Lever
Category:Childrens Fiction - Action & Adventure

Tells the story of a young homesick soldier who risks his life to cross No-Man's-Land and rescue a robin stuck on the barbed wire that separates the opposing armies. An eloquent counterpoint to the senselessness and inhu ...

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

My Dog

Author: John Heffernan
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Alija's only companion is his dog, but his optimism and courage in the face of adversity and loneliness is touching and inspiring. This extraordinary book deals with the tragedy of Bosnia and the reality of ethnic cleans ...

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

Let's Get a Pup!

Author: Bob Graham
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

One morning Kate bursts into her parents' bedroom. Let's get a pup! she cries. They all set off to the rescue centre where they see dogs of all shapes and sizes. Kate knows which one she wants the second she sees him. Sm ...

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Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

The Papunya School Book of Country and History

Author: Nada Wheatley
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 7-8

This multi-award-winning book tells the story of how Anangu from five different language groups came to live together at Papunya. From the time of first contacts with explorers, missionaries and pastoralists, through to ...

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2001 Book of the Year - Older Readers

Wolf on the Fold

Author: Judith Clarke
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

In 1935 Kenny is fourteen. It's the Great Depression and he's off to find work. If he doesn't find a job they might split up the family and send his sister away. In 1959 Kenny's daughter Frances is seven. She stays awake ...

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Two Hands Together

Author: Diana Kidd
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Family
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Self-esteem & Self-reliance
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6

Lucy and her younger brother Jake are proud of their father. They love the stories he tells about his days as a football player. He's still got the trophies he won on a shelf in his study. The trophy that Lucy likes best ...

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Book of the Year - Early Childhood

You'LL Wake the Baby

Author: Catherine Jinks
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

It's a wet day, and Andy and Annie have no choice but to play inside. But they are making too much noise! Can they find a game that won't wake the baby? For ages 2+. CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood, 2001.

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Picture Book of the Year

Fox

Author: Margaret Wild
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Health
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - General
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Margaret Wild tells the story of Dog and Magpie, who are friends and companions until Fox tempts Magpie away and then abandons her in the desert. It's a stark, uncompromising and deeply moving story, a fable that dramati ...

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1-2 Days

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2000 Book of the Year - Older Readers

48 Shades of Brown

Author: Nick Earls
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Dan's sixteen, about to start his final year at school, and his parents have gone overseas for a year. Jacq's twenty-two, drops by uni for the occasional class, and plays in a rock band that might be called Crimplene. Aw ...

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Book of the Year - Younger Readers

Hitler's Daughter

Author: Jackie French
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Family
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Social Situations Self-esteem & Self-reliance
Category:Childrens Fiction - General

Three children in country Australia meet at the bus stop every morning and tell each other stories. This one is about Hitler's Daughter and the life that she leads in Nazi Germany. The story goes back and forth from the ...

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Picture Book of the Year

Jenny Angel

Author: Margaret Wild
Category:Childrens Non Fiction - Activity Books
Category:Childrens Fiction - General
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 5-6
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - NSW - Prior Years Years 7-8
Category:Premiers Reading Challenge - VIC - Prior Years Years 5-6

Jenny Angel firmly believes that she is her brother's guardian angel. He is very ill and she is sure that if she keeps watch over him she can save his life. Their mother knows that nothing can save him and they share his ...

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