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Australian children’s bestsellers

Wednesday, 1 April 2026   Books+Publishing
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Top 10 Australian picture books
(2026 year to date, ranked by volume)

  1. Do Not Open This Book it’s out of This World (Andy Lee, Lake Press)
  2. Claris and the Easter Delight (Megan Hess, Hardie Grant Egmont)
  3. Where is The Green Sheep? (Mem Fox, Puffin)
  4. Wombat Stew (40th Anniversary Edition) (Marcia Vaughan, Scholastic)
  5. Fairy Beach (Sheila Knaggs, Affirm Kids)
  6. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Mem Fox, Puffin)
  7. Kissed by the Moon (Alison Lester, Random House)
  8. Bin Chicken’s Eggcellent Easter (Jol Temple & Kate Temple, Scholastic)
  9. Do You Know How Much I Love You? (Em Bruce & James Newman Gray, Lake Press)
  10. Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller (Adrian Lloyd & Adam Jackson, Little Book Press)

Top 10 Australian children’s fiction
(2026 year to date, ranked by volume)

  1. The Break In (Wolf Girl 14) (Anh Do, Allen & Unwin Children’s)
  2. Running Wild! (Ninja Girl 3) (Anh Do, Scholastic)
  3. Invisible Ninja! (Ninja Kid 17) (Anh Do, Scholastic)
  4. You & Me and the Peanut Butter Beast (Andy Griffiths, Pan Australia)
  5. Detective Time (Hotdog! 19) (Anh Do, Scholastic Press)
  6. Friends Forever (Olivia Diaries Bind-Up 1) (Meredith Costain, Scholastic)
  7. Ninja Girl (Anh Do, Scholastic)
  8. Real Pigeons Bin Baddies (Real Pigeons 13) (Andrew McDonald, Hardie Grant)
  9. Ninja Superstars! (Ninja Girl 2) (Anh Do, Scholastic)
  10. Blueback (Tim Winton, Puffin)

Top 10 Australian YA fiction
(2026 year to date, ranked by volume)

  1. Tom Appleby, Convict Boy (Jackie French, HarperCollins)
  2. Immortal Dark (The Immortal Dark Trilogy 1) (Tigest Girma, Hachette)
  3. Us Mob Walawurru (Lisa Wilyuka & David Spillman, Magabala)
  4. What Have They Done to Liza McLean? (Amy Doak, Penguin)
  5. Red Star Rebels (Amie Kaufman, Allen & Unwin Children’s)
  6. A Murder Is Going Down (Kate Emery, Allen & Unwin Children’s)
  7. Rival Darling (The Darling Devils 1) (Alexandra Moody, Electric Monkey)
  8. The Prison Healer (Lynette Noni, Penguin)
  9. Wandering Wild (Lynette Noni, Penguin)
  10. Wild Darling (The Darling Devils 3) (Alexandra Moody, Electric Monkey)

Top 10 Australian children’s and YA nonfiction
(2026 year to date, ranked by volume)

  1. Hello Sunshine (R.J. Timmis, Albert Street Books)
  2. Girl Stuff 8-12 (Kaz Cooke, Viking)
  3. Barefoot Kids (Scott Pape, HarperCollins)
  4. Weirdosaurus (Philip Bunting, Little Hare)
  5. You’ve Got This! (Life Lessons for Little Ones) (Jess Sanders, Affirm Kids)
  6. There’s a Prawn in Parliament House (Annabel Crabb, Allen & Unwin Children’s)
  7. Yirra and her Deadly Dog, Demon (Anita Heiss, ABC Books)
  8. Girl Stuff 13+ (Kaz Cooke, Viking)
  9. Stories for the Kid Next Door (Emma Holland, Penguin)
  10. Ingenious Insects (Sarah Allen, Affirm Kids)

© NielsenIQ BookScan 2026.

 

Category: Think Australian bestsellers