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My Sunbeam Baby

A great present for expectant parents’ – Books+Publishing See my bouncing baby, jigging on my knee. Then snuggling for a story, just baby, book and me. A gorgeous new picture book about how much we love our babies, from Emma Quay, creator of the bestselling and award-winning Rudie Nudie.

The Family Tree

An utterly stunning, powerful and unforgettable novella by the highly acclaimed and much missed Mal Peet. Featuring sensitive full colour illustrations by talented rising star, Emma Shoard. When a man returns to his childhood home and visits the derelict tree house in which his father once chose to live, he recalls the past unravelling of […]

Unrequited

It’s the literary equivalent of eating Tim Tams in your PJs on a Sunday afternoon. I loved this book’ – Rebecca Sparrow, author of The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay. Seventeen-year-old Kat Hartland loathes Unrequited, theworld’s biggest boy band. She’s 100 per cent immune to ‘perfect’ singer Angus Marsden and his unfailingly predictable lyrics. […]

Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz

From master storyteller MICHAEL MORPURGO, and illustrated in stunning colour by the award-winning EMMA CHICHESTER CLARK, comes a surprising, charming and uplifting twist on The Wizard of Oz, told by a very special and unforgettable character: Dorothy’s pet dog, Toto. A perfect, collectible gift for all children (and children at heart). “I was there,” Papa […]

The Shop at Hoopers Bend

Rodda is a master storyteller . . . This is a beautiful, compelling story’ – Books+Publishing, four stars When Quil Medway gets on the train, she thinks she knows where and howher journey will end. At camp. With another school holiday spent surrounded bypeople, but feeling alone. Quil doesn’t know how wrong she is. She […]

Pigs Might Fly

The award-winning classic by internationally renowned author Emily Rodda. Pigs can’t fly. Can they? ‘I wish something would happen!’ said Rachel. ‘Something interesting!’ Afterwards, she would remember what she’d said and how she’d felt, that rainy Saturday morning, and she would think, ‘That was really the beginning,’ and her stomach would give a little jolt, […]

Something Special

The award-winning classic by internationally renowned author Emily Rodda. Fete day has surprises in store for Sam, but are they all a dream! Something very strange is going to happen to Sam. In the spare room, the room with the stained-glass windows, the second-hand clothes hang in rows, stirring sunlight. Sam walks through the rows, […]

The Best-Kept Secret

The award-winning classic by internationally renowned author Emily Rodda. Beckoning music, gleaming horses, the lure of the carousel. Cecilia says merry-go-rounds are for little kids, but Jo feels there’s something mysterious and not at all childish about the carousel that has appeared overnight in Marley Street. there’s something odd about the beckoning music, something strange […]

Scarlett Starlet

From award-winning author Emma Quay comes a gorgeous new picture book for every little girl who loves to dance. Scarlett loved to dance, and her house was always filled with rhythm. Her parents would clap along, and Little Jazzy Jo-Jo’s paws would tap-tap-tap in time. But when Scarlett’s dreams of dancing on a real stage […]