Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

In September 2008, Colin Thompson visited Cambodia with Save the Children, and was inspired to . create THE BICYCLE. Featuring the illustrations of fourteen internationally acclaimed artists, including Quentin Blake, Tony Ross, Shaun Tan and Freya Blackwood, this is a celebration of how much we c...

Purdy the cat and Barker the dog live together in a sky-blue house on top of a hill. But while the two friends share a house, they are as different as cat and dog can be. Purdy has big dreams, while Barker likes to potter in the garden. Purdy likes to eat fish, but it is Barker who must scoop the...

Big and Small are a couple of machines who work together. Sometimes Big goes a bit wobbly and Small has to find a way to help him.

This is a song by Bob Brown, author of Give Me a Home among the Gum Trees, about the exploits of a Big Bad Bushranger. On the run from the law he hides his loot in a cave on a hillside. Known as the Terror of New South Wales, he rides the countryside on his big black horse holding up banks and sc...

Cricket-mad twins Millie and Maggie are on holidays in Queensland at their uncle’s caravan park. Straight away, they notice a group of kids on the oval playing cricket. The girls are dying to join in, but apparently it’s ‘boys only’. Millie and Maggie are not impressed – they’re huge Hobart Hurri...

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived on Earth. Curious young minds will love reading this sensuous exploration of what a blue whale feels, sounds and smells like, and learning facts about a whale's size, life-span, diet, babies and more.

A fun book about the world of prehistoric Australia to entertain & inform young readers. Discover amazing information about Australian dinosaurs. Includes cute pictures & bite size facts, plus a pronuciation guide to dino names.

Five adventures of Leigh Hobbs' much loved characters, Old Tom and Angela Throgmorton, in one delightful collection. Angela Throgmorton lives alone and likes it that way. One day she finds an unusual bundle on her doorstep - Old Tom has arrived. Her life will never be the same. And nor will yours...

"Oh no - watch out! Don't look now! Inside this book is an EXPLODING cow! FIVE ... FOUR ... THREE ... TWO ... ONE ... KAPOW!"

Big Fella Rain is a celebration of northern Australia as animals, birds, trees and a parched earth await the first rain. It is almost as if country stands still as the sparse yet evocative text pays homage to the transition from dry season to wet season in a country that is like no other place in...