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Is That You?
Age range 0 to 5 'Frogs like to bop. Can you touch the sky?' Is that you? by Gregg Dreise is a board book that encourages young readers to learn...
Beware the Argula!
Age range 4+ 'It may seem like a simple story but Beware the Argula! Is also a warning to everyone to be careful when they go out bush. I know...
The Shop Train
Age range 5 to 9 Every week, Rosie and her mother drive down the bumpy dirt road and across the rocky riverbed to visit the 'Shop Train'. The Shop Train...
Hairy Holes
Age range 8 to 12 'Our history is full of stories about hairy people, furry people, yowies, bunyips and monster apes. But this is the story about the hairy holes....
Koori Princess
Age range 7 to 12 An insightful and humorous story of a young girl's determination to be who she wants to be. Karan rolls her eyes. 'What's this year's theme?...
Jack of Hearts QX11594
'It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go...
Charlie's Swim
Age range 9 to 12 During WWII after the Japanese invasion of Java, more than 1000 refugees from the Dutch East Indies, many in flying boats, passed through Broome, which...
The Sweetest Egg of All: Tales from the Bush Mob
Age range 6+ Gecko, Thorny Devil and Scrubby Python admire Bungarra and hatch a plan to surprise him with this very special birthday gift ... but their plan goes horribly...
This is Me!
Age range 0 to 5 This is me! I was born to be everything I can be! This is Me! by Sally Morgan is a beautiful board book about self...
Dingo's Dream: Tales from the Bush Mob Bk 6
Tales from the Bush Mob is a series of books about the Bush Mob, a group of animals who work together to solve problems. Each book shares a rich landscape...
The Toast Tree
Age range 5 to 7 Hidden in the sand dunes bordering a dusty, 1960s pearling town is a very special tree. Every day, Ella and Mia's grandpa comes home from...
Songs that sound like Blood
Age range 12 to 18 Roxy May Redding's got music in her soul and songs in her blood. She lives in a hot dusty town and is dreamingbig. She survives...
ABC Dreaming
Dingoes, bats, red-eyed green tree frogs ... an ABC of amazing Australian creatures At last ... a unique Australian ABC book. Featuring the artwork of celebrated Queensland artist Warren Brim,...
Clever Crow
Age range 3 to 9 Clever Crow is an endearing and witty tale that follows the exploits of a hungry and very clever crow. Crow searches in the bush for...
Alfie's Big Wish
Age range 5-8 "The other kids playing were bigger you see, 'Why is there no one the same size as me?' Without all the kids he'd played with and known,...
Deadly D & Justice Jones: Rising Star
Age range 6+ Deadly D and Justice Jones return in their most exciting and funny story yet! The action-packed, rugby league adventures of Deadly D and Justice Jones just got...
Rift Breaker
After conducting welding repairs on the outer hull of a space vessel, token human and lowly engineer Milton Lance returns to a silent, gloomy interior. The crew is dead, and...
Look and See: Meet your favourite Australian animals
Age range 2-6 This little gem of a book captures the shenanigans of some very cheeky Australian animals. From a kangaroo that hops free, to a dingo that howls with...
Deadly D & Justice Jones: Making the Team
Eleven-year-old Dylan has to move from Mt Isa to Brisbane and he's not happy. But as soon as he gets to Flatwater State School he finds a former Mount Isa...
Elephants in the Bush and other Yamatji Yarns
A huge snake takes refuge under the body of anapping grandfather. A sixteen year old girl keeps three hundred head of cattletogether for a couple of weeks without loosing a...
Ubby's Underdogs: Heroes Beginning
Age range 10+ It is the late 1940s and Broome, a small pearling town in the heart of an ancient land, is still recovering from WWII. Ubby, a smart, street-wise...
Calypso Summer
Calypso Summer is a story told by Calypso, a young Nukunu man, fresh out of high school in Rastafarian guise. After failing to secure employment in sports retail, his dream...
Alfie's Search for Destiny
Alfie's Search for Destiny is a delightful story that follows Alfie on a journey in search for his destiny. He leaves home, travels high and low and, after his long...
The Spotty Dotty Lady
There once lived a sad lady whose only friends were the flowers in her garden. By chance she discovers a mysterious plant growing by her house and decides to water...
Rise of the Fallen
Rise of the Fallen is a young adult paranormal romance, the first in a series of novels with demons, angels and elementals at war for power. This contemporary, super-sharp story...
Sea Horse
Written with gentle humour and a beautiful interpretation of landscape, this adventure story about Jack and his family is reminiscent of endless summers, azure seas and sandy white beaches. Jack,...
Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers, Saltwater series set of 4
Age range 3 to 6 The Deadly Reads for Deadly Readers Book Set (Saltwater Series) hasbeen carefully designed to provide young Indigenous and non-Indigenous children with engaging, enjoyable, and meaningful...
Loongie the Greedy Crocodile
A tale about one of Australia's most loved reptiles. Loongie is a greedy saltwater crocodile who lives among the mangroves at Walaman Creek in the remote Kimberley region of Western...
My Longest Round
I've been fighting since the day I was born. No, I've been fighting from the time I was curled up inside my mother's belly. The day my father shot himself...
Grace Beside Me
Age range 12 to 18 Written from teenager girl Fuzzy Mac's perspective, Grace Beside Me is a quirky, warmly rendered story of home and family life in a small town....
Joshua and the Two Crabs
Age range 5 to 9 As a young boy growing up in Broome, Joshua Button spent many weekends fishing and crabbing in the mangroves of Roebuck Bay, with his family....
The Sugarbag
Age range 5 to 9 The Sugarbag is the adventure story of Jimmy and Max, two young brothers, who are on their way to visit their grandfather. Walking through the...
My Home Broome
My Home Broome is a beautiful new picture book that captures the heart and soul of the uniquemulticultural community of Broome in Australia's north west. With a poem written by...
Marngrook: The long-ago story of aussie rules
Age range 5 to 9 This fictionalised story of Marngrook takes place at the foot of Duwul, the highest mountain in the spectacular Grampians region of north-west Victoria, the traditional...
Dingo's Tree
This is the story of Dingo, Wombat, Crow and their friends as they struggle to exist alongside the devastation of mining that is tearing up their beautiful homeland. This powerful...
Aussie TWOS Like to...
Aussie Twos Like to... reflects Australia's rich multicultural society and shows Aussie two-year-olds doing all the things they love -digging at the beach, finger painting, building blocks, dress-ups and more....
The Mark of the Wagarl
Age range 5 to 9 Maadjit Walken is the Sacred Rainbow Serpent. She is the mother spirit and creator of Nyoongar Country in the south-west of Western Australia. She formed...
Once There Was A Boy
Once There Was a Boy is a poignant, universal story of friendship, temptation and reconciliation. The disarmingly sweet, simple language in this whimsical children's picture book belies an emotional depth...
Ubby's Underdogs: The Legend of the Phoenix Dragon
Age range 10+ The Legend of the Phoenix Dragon is the first in the Ubby's Underdogs trilogy - shortlisted for the 2011 Deadly Awards, presented to Indigenous Australians for excellence...
Staircase to the Moon
How does a young girl with a yearning for adventure get to the moon? Why, she climbs the staircase of course! In this book, a young girl and her grandfather...
Wandihnu and the Old Dugong
Age 5 to 9 A contemporary story about a young girl who has grown up in the city and who is to return to Badu Island to stay with her...
Lucky and Spike
Lucky and Spike is the thrilling tale of two spinifex hopping mice who leave their burrow each night to race across the plains in search of food. Avoiding predators is...
Fair Skin Black Fella
'We all brothers and sisters in this life, no matter what colour we are,' says Old Ned. This is the story of Mary, a young Aboriginal girl who lives on...
Last Truck Out
WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and...
The Outback
Annaliese Porter was only eight years old when she wrote The Outback . She has captured the Australian outback in all its moods in this moving bush ballad about the...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
Kakadu Calling: Stories for Kids
From 'Dinky the Dingo' to 'Finding My Way Home,' Jane Christophersen presents an engaging collection of short stories for young readers. Jane reveals the wonders of daily life in the...
What to Draw and How to Draw It
Credited with being the inspiration for Walt Disney to pick up a pencil and pursue a career in animation, E G Lutz's method of drawing complex illustrations in gradual, simplified...