Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Have you ever seen a mermaid? Eliza has and this is the captivating story of how Eliza and the mermaid become the very best of friends.

Rhyming text describes how various animals move.

Can You Find 12 Busy Bees? brings children closer to nature and the environment. In this elegant picture book children will enjoy learning to count with the gorgeous flora and fauna on every page.

Visit some of Australia's most loved animals and marvel at their clever camouflage. Can you find all the creatures hiding in the pages of this book?

The king has lost his crown. He can't find it anywhere! But shhh....! You musn't tell. Even if you know where it is...

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.’ -- Albert Einstein (or not, as it turns out!) So … can a fish climb a tree? Can a horse drive a car? Can a baby bake a cake? And if they can’t, what wonderful t...

When her mother plans to move to Australia with her new husband and baby, Floss must decide whether her loyalties lie with her mother or her father, while at the same time, her best friend begins to make fun of her and reject her.

Little Bear can't sleep. Even with the biggest lantern at his bedside, he is frightened of the dark. But Big Bear finds a way to reassure him by taking him out to see the moon and the stars - and then Little Bear falls asleep.

A peddler sells caps from a tall, tottering pile on his head. Unable to sell a single cap one morning, he sits under a tree and falls asleep. When he wakes up, the caps are gone and the tree is full of cap-wearing monkeys...

The enthralling story of Captain Cook's voyage to Australia, as seen through the eager eyes of a cabin boy. When young Isaac Manley sailed on the Endeavour from England in 1768, no one on board knew if a mysterious southern continent existed in the vast Pacific Ocean. It would be a voyage full...