Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

The Barefoot Book of children takes its readers on a visual trek across the globe, where they discover that--despite our different clothes and homes and languages--we are more alike than different.

Banjo is a Hoofball star. He and his friend Bella just love the game. But when Banjo gets injured, it's only too easy to stay in bed and play Haystation and suck on molasses. Can Bella help him get back on track?

Banjo is a hard-working farm dog and Ruby Red is a haughty chicken, and they never see eye to eye. Can they ever be friends?

When a driver, who is not paying attention to where he is going, crashes into a trash can, he sets off a series of accidents with unexpected outcomes.

A young girl visits her eccentric grandfather's house where tea is always served in flower pots and cleaning house means mowing the rug.

A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.

Dance your way from A to Z. An animal ABC with a difference. Join alpacas, bears, camels and a host of other animals as they conga, can-can and hip-hop the night away. Find out why the jaguar blushed and what happened to the elephants when the music stopped.

Follow along with the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.

Tilly loves her ballet lessons, so when she learns that she has a week left until the big show, Tilly practises all her steps and her own special dance every day. What will Tilly's special dance be? And will she shine on stage like a real ballerina?

Meet the Bench Warmers -- Danny, Crystal, Angie, Omyr, Leanne and Cody. As the new basketball players at Robdale Primary they've been lumped together. According to hot shot Greg 'T́he Goat' McGriffin, they don't have a chance of winning a lunchtime game. But when the gang are picked as part of th...