Tuesday, 3 February 2015
At Jimmy the honeyeater’s first day of flying school, he quickly becomes the target of other, bigger birds, who tease and taunt him. He is the only honeyeater and far...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Billie B has entered the picture book world in Sally Rippin’s new series, ‘Billie’s Super Dooper Adventures’. Seeing a gap in the three-plus pre-school market, Rippin has taken Billie B...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Some of us spend our lives doing the same thing all day long, every day, day in, day out. We yearn for something different but don’t know how to find...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Molly lives next door to Murray and Maureen. When Maureen has to go to hospital, the piggy-tailed little girl decides to look after Murray, who is home alone. With the...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Jonah and the Whale has got nothing on this book! Toot is a fish who likes to make noise and he loves nothing better than making music. But the rest...

Friday, 30 January 2015
With their beautifully delicate handmade felt and cardboard scenes, Cat Rabbit and Isobel Knowles have created another delightful book following their bestseller Owl Know How. In Too Much for Turtle,...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Too often children’s cookbooks are just bad collections of cheap, cheesy content and recipes for happy-face pizzas, which makes finding a good cookbook for primary school kids or your own...

Friday, 30 January 2015
When a hostage rescue mission in a remote region of Afghanistan suddenly goes wrong, 18-year-old Corporal Mark Hollis and an army sniffer dog, Prince, are the only survivors—and now they...

Friday, 30 January 2015
In a world where Music is the fabric of reality, none but those trained by the elite Conservatorium are allowed to touch the Song (the life force of everything). Travelling...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Similar to a lot of recent YA fiction, this book is set in a dystopian future. It’s pretty well thought out, though. There’s a rigid class system, computer monitoring, and...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Escaping to relatives in the country with best friend Frankie in tow seemed like a wonderful idea to Joely at the time. But now they have arrived, she’s learning that...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Stand aside princesses and ballet dancers, elves could be the next big thing if the ‘Lily the Elf’ series is anything to go by. Anna Bradford, author of the ‘Violet...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Farm Rescue is the first book in a new series for junior readers by Darrel and Sally Odgers, two names many readers will already be familiar with. Barnaby Station Stamp...

Friday, 30 January 2015
In a similar vein to Lemony Snicket comes Ivy Pocket, an orphaned maid and the terrifically unreliable narrator of this story. After being let go from her current position, Ivy...

Friday, 30 January 2015
The brilliantly named Cerberus Jones is actually a pseudonym for three authors, Chris Morphew, Rowan McAuley and David Harding, who are already bestsellers in the middle-grade market. So when they...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Stick and Ranga are best mates who love skateboarding, PlayStation and dunking arrowroot biscuits into steaming mugs of Milo. Their friendship duo unexpectedly becomes a trio with the arrival of...

Friday, 30 January 2015
In almost all cases, shortness of breath is not a great feeling. In this instance, though, it was merely a symptom of good writing, and it happened as I read...

Friday, 30 January 2015
Between running her father’s struggling café while he takes a well-earned holiday, dodging mean girls at school and helping her best friend with his girl dramas, Del is seriously in...