The Yearbook Committee (Sarah Ayoub, HarperCollins)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Five very different Year 12 students find themselves on the Yearbook Committee for their prestigious private school. Some are loners and some are popular, but all are facing their own...
Yellow (Megan Jacobson, Penguin)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Yellow is a surprising and engaging story from debut author Megan Jacobsen. Fourteen-year-old Kirra has a rocky home life: her father has left the family for another woman and her...
Something Wonderful (Raewyn Caisley & Karen Blair, Viking)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Raewyn Caisley’s first book with illustrator Karen Blair, Hello from Nowhere, took readers to the Australian Nullarbor to reveal the benefits of living in the middle of a desert. In...
Magrit (Lee Battersby, Walker Books)
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Magrit is nearly 10 and lives in an abandoned cemetery with her skeletal mentor Master Puppet. One day her simple life is disrupted forever by the arrival of a tiny...
On tour: Katherine Rundell
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Katherine Rundell is the author of children’s books The Wolf Wilder (Bloomsbury) and Rooftoppers (Faber). She will be appearing at the Perth Writers Festival in February. What would you put...
Spiral of absurdity: Lee Battersby on ‘Magrit’
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Lee Battersby’s first book for children is set in an abandoned cemetery and has ‘echoes of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book’. Reviewer Tehani Wessely spoke to the author....
Squishy Taylor and the Bonus Sisters: Squishy Taylor Book One (Ailsa Wild, illus by Ben Wood, Hardie Grant Egmont)
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
The first book in this new series by Ailsa Wood throws you straight into the action, when Squishy (real name Sita) discovers a boy hiding out in the carpark of...
