Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

It's a new day in Australia. Let's follow the sun! Wake up with kookaburras on Arakwal Country (Byron Bay), bask with wombats on Wulinantikala (Cradle Mountain), watch black and red cockatoos flying over Anangu Country, scratch the Daintree Rainforest floor with cassowaries on Kuku Yalanji Countr...

This title for children delves into a small slice of big, beautiful, and diverse Australia. From the first people to populate it to some great Aussie icons, and the unique animals, the landscape, our passion for sport, the akubras, beaches, and much more. This title captures it all and provides a...

Australia. Big. Beautiful. Diverse. From the First People to washing lines and crocodiles, football and sunshine, koalas and akubras, skyscrapers and beaches that squeak, this 96-page picture book is a glorious tribute to this wide brown land and its rich and varied multicultural communities. Vib...

'Australia to Z - an alphabet book, but not one for the young and teaching them their letters. Instead Armin Greder has cast his critical eye on us and our symbols.' Libby Gleeson..'Disquieting and potent - a "gloves off" account of Australian nationhood, and how we, as a culture, might appear to...

Ava loves playing shops. Can she get Billy to buy anything?

Ava's life with her mum, dad and pet dog, Angus, is perfectly orderly -- just how she likes it. But the Appleton family are off on a grand adventure. They'll be living in a motorhome for a whole year. Ava's horrified. Whatever will she do?

Ava Anne Appleton's amazing adventure continues and the next stop for the Appleton family is the beach!

Ava and Angus are off to the Doolimba show, with its fun rides and lots of cute animals. But when daring twins Donna and Danny Donnelly tempt Ava to sneak into the animals' shed at night time, dozens of prize animals escape their pens.

Ava has discovered that life on the road is not so bad after all. With her dog Angus by her side, she is ready for adventure. But then she finds herself going higher than she ever thought possible.

The Hargraves want their new baby to grow up big and strong. But the puny mite will hardly eat a thing. One day Mrs. Hargarves finds an avocado in the fruit bowl, and the baby gobbles it up. Soon, the strangest things start to happen ...