Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Hen, duck and goose are going on a picnic. They pack all their favourite foods, but as they walk over the hill, their picnic basket becomes lighter and lighter... It seems they are not the only ones who like berries, apples and pears.

Turtle needs to get to the shop. It is important that he isn't late. When he races into the lift of Building 24 with all the busy people, there is a nod and a blink and a step to the side. A grunt and a sigh and a lean to the right. But what happens when the lift stops moving? Crocodile has a mee...

Wesley's an outcast from the civilization around him. He's not into pizza, or football or haircuts like the other boys in his school. So, when Wesley has to find a project for the summer holidays, he has a brilliant idea: he'll found a civilization of his own - in the back garden!

Sad because she doesn't have a friend, Whacko goes to find one. But it's a difficult task, Henny-wise is too busy digging for grubs, Chooky Looky's afraid the sky is falling, and Pretty-Little Pennyfeather is too vain to have time for anyone except hersel

It's bathtime, but there's a whale in the tub and Bruno can't get in! No one in his family believes him and Bruno keeps being sent back to the bathroom until, at last, Bruno and the whale work out a very splashy solution.

For orca Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Ve...

In his signature style, Oliver creates a fabulously diverse and heartfelt duo in Thao and Kadir and their sometimes hilarious and sometimes heart-wrenching dilemmas of culture and belonging in a remote rural community. Throw in some slam poetry and it might just end in a lifelong friendship and a...

When Koala asks what colour is the sea, she gets so many different answers she decides to find out for herself.

“What do they do with all the poo, from all the animals at the zoo? The hippos, the tigers, the kangaroos - what do they do with all that poo? There's so much poo at the zoo... Where does it all go? Do they mix it into chocolate ice-cream? Sprinkle it on pizza? Stir it in the local swimming pool?

“What do they do with all the poo, from all the animals at the zoo? The hippos, the tigers, the kangaroos - what do they do with all that poo? There's so much poo at the zoo... Where does it all go? Do they mix it into chocolate ice-cream? Sprinkle it on pizza? Stir it in the local swimming pool?