Bestsellers: Wimpy Kid knocks Bluey out of number one spot
Monday, 25 November 2019
After spending one week in the top spot on the Australian bestsellers chart, Bluey: The Beach (Puffin) has slipped to second place, replaced at number one by the 14th 'Wimpy Kid'...
Christmas predictions: Nat Latter from Rabble Books & Games in Perth
Friday, 22 November 2019
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and surprise sellers. In this instalment, Nat...
Anti-bullying picture book wins Children’s Peace Literature Award
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Sue deGennaro’s picture book Missing Marvin (Scholastic) has won the Children’s Peace Literature Award, presented to a book that ‘encourages the peaceful resolution of conflict’ or ‘promotes peace at the...
‘The Baddest Day Ever’ tops Australian children’s fiction bestsellers chart
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Last year, Allen & Unwin acquired ANZ rights to three new children’s series by Anh Do, author of the bestselling middle-grade series ‘WeirDo’, ‘Hotdog!’ and ‘Ninja Kid’ (all Scholastic). Two...
‘All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors’ sold to US, Canada
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US and Canadian rights to the picture book All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors (Davina Bell, illus by Jenny Løvlie) to HarperCollins...
Children’s book awards shine a spotlight on small presses
Thursday, 21 November 2019
A number of Australian and international children’s book awards have been announced over the past month, and it’s interesting to see how many of the winning titles have been published...
China ‘most active’ international market for Oz kids publishers: Insights from the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
A delegation of Australian publishers and agents attended this year’s China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF), which ran from 15–17 November. Wenona Byrne, Australia Council’s director of literature, reports...
October bestsellers: ‘Khaki Town’ and ‘488 Rules for Life’ top Australian charts
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
The Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts for October have two new chart-toppers: Judy Nunn’s WWII novel Khaki Town, set in Queensland on the brink of Japanese invasion, and comedian Kitty...
Bestsellers: ‘Bluey’ rounds up top three chart spots
Monday, 18 November 2019
It's a trifecta for Bluey on this week's bestsellers chart, with the highly anticipated tie-in books to the hugely popular Australian cartoon series sitting in the top three spots: lift-the-flap book The...
Christmas predictions: Sean Guy from the Bookshop Darwin
Friday, 15 November 2019
In the lead-up to Christmas, the busiest time of year on the bookselling calendar, Books+Publishing is asking booksellers across the country to predict their biggest sellers and surprise sellers. In this first instalment...
‘The Glad Shout’ wins Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Thursday, 14 November 2019
Alice Robinson’s second novel The Glad Shout (Affirm Press)—‘an exhilarating novel that raises urgent questions about how we will experience the near future of our climate crisis’—has won the Readings...
Australians at Frankfurt report interest in climate change, MBS
Thursday, 14 November 2019
Australian publishers who attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair have reported strong interest in books on climate change and Mind Body Spirit (MBS). ‘Climate change was the big theme of...
Sara Foster’s suspense thrillers sold into US, UK
Thursday, 14 November 2019
Curtis Brown Australia has sold North American and UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to two novels by bestselling psychological suspense author Sara Foster—The Hidden Hours and her...
‘Khaki Town’ and ‘488 Rules for Life’ top Australian charts
Thursday, 14 November 2019
The Australian fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts have two new chart-toppers: Judy Nunn’s WWII novel Khaki Town, set in northern Australia on the brink of Japanese invasion, and comedian Kitty...
Bestsellers: Lee Child reaches number one
Monday, 11 November 2019
This week's Australian top 10 bestseller chart is made up exclusively of fiction and memoir titles, with Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller Blue Moon (Bantam) debuting at number one....
Beetle and Boo (Caitlin Murray, Puffin)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Beetle is not scared of anything. Monsters? Ghosts? Bad dreams? Wild storms and cracking thunder and lightning? Nope. Uh-uh. Not ever. Caitlin Murray’s Beetle and Boo is a story of...
The Girl with the Gold Bikini (Lisa Walker, Wakefield)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Lisa Walker’s second YA novel gives us a fun new spin on Nancy Drew and ‘girl detectives’. It will absolutely appeal to readers who love the mystery genre, with a...
A New Kind of Everything (Richard Yaxley, Scholastic)
Friday, 8 November 2019
A New Kind of Everything picks up the story of the Gallagher family after the loss of patriarch Barney, his spectre still looming large over his wife Allison and their...
Euphoria Kids (Alison Evans, Echo)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Euphoria Kids is a tender, contemporary fairytale about magic, friendship and gender identity. A departure from the horror elements of Alison Evans’ previous novels, this book focuses on the wonder...
Coming Home to Country (Bronwyn Bancroft, Little Hare)
Friday, 8 November 2019
This picture book is bathed in a ‘palette of leaf green, red rust, yellow ochre, deep blue and crimson’ as the unnamed narrator returns home, back to Country. Bronwyn Bancroft’s...
Morphing Murphy (Robert Favretto, illus by Tull Suwannakit, Ford Street)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Murphy is a happy tadpole, quite content with his life eating algae and rotting water plants all day. So happy that he wouldn’t change a thing … until he slowly...
Jelly-Boy (Nicole Godwin, illus by Christopher Nielsen, Walker Books)
Friday, 8 November 2019
In this deceptively simple story, a jellyfish falls in love with a plastic bag, having assumed that it’s a fellow jellyfish. The book’s aim is to teach children about the...
Evie and Pog: Take Off! (Tania McCartney, HarperCollins)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Six-year-old Evie and her best friend Pog the pug live in a treehouse next to obsessively tidy Granny Gladys’ house. Evie is accident-prone, wildly enthusiastic about the world, and enjoys...
Emergency Rescue Angel (Cate Whittle, Scholastic)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Mitch is rudderless and lonely after the death of his dad and the upheaval of his best mate across the country. Max is a goth angel—an Emergency Rescue Angel, to...
Me and My Boots (Penny Harrison, illus by Evie Barrow, Little Hare)
Friday, 8 November 2019
Author Penny Harrison exemplifies the beauty in nature and the power of self-expression through her books, which include The Art Garden, Dance with Me and Emily Green’s Garden. Her latest...
Dream team: Emily Rodda & Marc McBride on ‘The Glimme’
Friday, 8 November 2019
Author Emily Rodda and illustrator Marc McBride’s working relationship has spanned nearly 20 years, starting with the first ‘Deltora Quest’ book. Now, the pair are back with a new middle-grade...
State of euphoria: Alison Evans on ‘Euphoria Kids’
Friday, 8 November 2019
Reviewer Jordi Kerr says Alison Evans’ YA novel Euphoria Kids (Echo, February) is ‘a tender, contemporary fairytale about magic, friendship and gender identity’ that follows three trans kids ‘learning to...
Bestsellers: Daniher tops the ladder
Monday, 4 November 2019
AFL alum and Motor Neurone Disease ambassador Neale Daniher has debuted at number one on this week's bestsellers chart with his memoir When All is Said & Done (with Warwick...
A Year in the Mud and the Toast and the Tears: My (semi) rural kind of life (Georgie Brooks, Bad Apple Press)
Thursday, 31 October 2019
In the middle of another stifling summer in suburbia and in desperate need of a ‘tree change’ Georgie Brooks and her young family decide to make the bold move to...
Among the animals: Donna Mazza on ‘Fauna’
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Donna Mazza’s novel Fauna (A&U, February) is set in a near-future in which a woman is enticed into an experimental program that mixes her embryo with genetically edited cells. Reviewer...
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