The four car friends from Four on the Run, return with fame and new adventures.  In Four All at Sea, the personification of the characters and the objects that surround them, steer the story through dialogue and point of view […]

Always is the seventh and final book in Morris Gleitzman’s outstanding series featuring the hero Felix. It marks the end of two journeys; the one taken by Felix, the other, the writing journey with Felix by the author,which began sixteen […]

With the surge of graphic novels for all ages, comes the opportunity for creators and designers to offer a different style of book to children who find reading words difficult, but are drawn to visual narratives. A five-publisher auction led […]

Sophie Laguna‘s first children’s book in ten years, The Song of Lewis Carmichael, illustrated by her husband Marc McBride, is a magnificent journey deep into The Arctic, but also into the depths of the human psyche. Sofie tells us about […]

An extraordinary and emotional tale of survival of both animals and humans, I regret having missed the first book, Pax, as I loved Pax: Journey Home, so much! Its beautiful and moving poetic prose carries countless underlying themes and messages […]

What a wonderful anytime story Babies at the Billabong is!  A walk through the Australian bush is reason for celebration. There is so much to see and learn about; tall trees, flowered bushes and baby animals playing in their natural […]

It is 1979. Shell is ten years old and in Grade 5. To commemorate 150 years since the first settlers came from England, she has been allocated an imaginary pen-pal, Mary, from 1829, as a history project. She has a […]

Julia Lawrinson is an award-winning writer of books for children and young adults. She hails from Perth and, despite leaving school at 15, has a PhD in writing and a Bachelor of Laws with distinction.  Julia has worked in a […]

The Song of Lewis Carmichael, Sophie Laguna’s first children’s book in a decade, captures the reader’s attention immediately, and with its magical atmosphere, flings them into the story, making them a part of it from beginning to end. Matthew had […]

How many times do plans that are made fall apart, and things put off for tomorrow never eventuate? Chloe had mapped out her life in grids. Each represented a step toward her ultimate goal. In the last months of her […]