WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award SHORTLISTED 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry) SHORTLISTED 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary...

*Shortlisted for IBBY Australia's Ena Nol Award 2022*Age range 0 to 3What do you call a baby...? is an entertaining way for all children to learn the nouns that describe some of our iconic Australian baby animals.Baby frogs are called tadpoles,...

Age range 3 to 8In this delightful Early Childhood board book, Tori-Jay Mordey's graphic illustrations bring the city to life in all its colourful glory.Mordey's bold and painterly art style celebrates the pace of the cityscape whether it be her built...

Age range 8+*Honour Book in the 2019 CBCAs for Book of the Year: Younger Readers**Shortlisted for the 2019 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards in the Eight to 10 Years category*Black Cockatoo is a vignette that follows Mia, a young...

Age range 3 to 8Spinifex Mouse is the heartwarming tale of Cheeky, a spinifex hopping mouse, who lives in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Cheeky is an adventurous little mouse who loves to leap high into the air and practice acrobatic tricks...

Age range 3 to 6Molly the Pirate  is a swashbuckling tale that will delight anyone who ever wanted to be a pirate. Young Molly's imagination knows no bounds when she transforms her Australian backyard into an adventure playground on the high...

Age range 3 - 8Big 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...

Age range 3 to 8When a group of desert children invite their school teacher, Mrs White, home for dinner to show her why their homework is always grubby, no-one expects what is to come!They are happily showing Mrs White their higgledy piggledy garden when...

Monster Party is an explosion of fun and pure joy. Children will love the hilarious, naughty desert monsters who come out of the ground to have a party on Dora Lake.Eating chips and monster cake, they go 'galumphing' all over the place with a drum and a...

' This is my knowledge. It has been handed down to me from my grandmothers and grandfathers, my mothers and my fathers. I am sharing it with you because I want people to know about my life.'Ninu Grandmothers' Law is a definitive account of a traditional...

An exemplar of Indigenous Studies writing, epistemologically, theoretically and methodologicallyA collection of writings on women and Aboriginal identity from 14 senior Indigenous academics and community leaders. The collection engages with questions...

Age range 3 to 6This delightful book for Early Childhood will mesmerise young children and older readers. The black linework and colourful wash backgrounds work beautifully with the lyrical text. Together they introduce extraordinary creatures and birds...

Age range 3 to 8This delightful book for early childhood will enthrall young children and their older readers. The vibrant illustrations are accompanied by a soft lyrical text and together they introduce some of the diverse native and exotic animals to...

Age range 0-3Bronwyn Houston makes counting from one to ten so much fun! From kookaburras to ants to dragonflies, her rich colourful illustrations are filled with texture and movement. Each single page includes numbers and words on a...

Age range 3 to 6This little gem of a board book captures the playful antics of some of our favourite Australian animals. From ahopping kangaroo to a hilarious emu and a mischevious turtle, this rhythmical tale takes a heartwarming lookat cheeky animals...

Ages 6 - 9Long ago dinosaurs lived here, and their ancient footprints can still be found. Imagine if the dinosaurs came back to visit us!At high tide, they would cool down in Anastasias's Pool.Watch out for the big splash!They would play with the...

Age range 4 to 8Frances and Lindsay Haji-Ali take us counting backwards from FIFTEEN to ONE on this spectactular journey in the far north of WA. When Frances and Lindsay lived with their family in Broome, they often set out to visit Nana in the tiny...

Age range 3 to 6Steve is a gorilla who lives at a zoo in Rio. In the evenings, he listens to jazz on the radio with his friend, Antonio the zookeeper. One night, Steve is feeling a little lonely and so he lifts the latch of his cage door and...

Age range 3 to 8This delightful story takes place on a stormy wet-season night at the Broome lighthouse. Meet Cassius the hermitcrab, Jacob the jellyfish, Bruce the bluebone and more sea creatures as they head down the beach and raceup the lighthouse...

Age range 3 to 8 Untangle the crab pots, and zoom up the creek - we're going mud crabbing in the boat with Dad.Crabbing with Dad is a beautiful children's picture book debut from Darwin-based author and illustrator, Paul Seden...

Aboriginal Elder David Mowaljarlai and photographer Jutta Malnic rekindle a story that constitutes the oldest collective memory of humankind. Yorro Yorro tells of Wandjina creation spirits and their 'crossing over' into ancestral beings...

Age range 714This third instalment in the Deadly D series is another page-turning adventure story that sees Dylan and his loyal friend, Justice Jones, desperately trying to keep the secret of Deadly D from being revealed to the world. But is it time for...

I am the native cat, I dance everywhere.  I hop, skip and jump. I jump on the flat stone  and dance and wobble my bum and hold my hips  And then I dance again.This remarkable book weaves together the story of Daisy Utemorrah's...

** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 **'... you need an organisation like the KLC to be your shield and spear, to be able to cut through the bureaucracy to make change. To be able to protect things that are important to...

Kalyakoorl, ngalak warangka, (Forever, we sing), is a celebration of rare Noongar language, and the things we share as community. Over many years, Noongar language has been reduced to a whisper, there are currently less than 400 fluent speakers.The...

You are indeed / a truly deadly solid / moorditj yorgah An' um / jerrepjing something wicked / for you But um / just a wintjarren Nyoongar manCartwarra or what? Selected poems and stories is a compendium of Alf's works that span several literary...

JONO: 'Sometimes it feels like...' [Pause]. 'I don't fit in at home! I'm tryin' to juggle two worlds here and if you don't tell me things, it gets easier and easier to keep my life at camp separate to my life at home.'FIFO Fit In or F**k Off! explores...

'Nanna was an imposing woman. She was large and dark, with strong arms and silver hair that fell to her waist ... Her scars bore testament to her physical adventures...yet she remained the epitome of femininity and strength.' - Gail Hunt, youngest...

Age range 7+'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' - Dr. Anita Heiss, Ed.Growing up Wiradjuri is a...

Age range 3 to 9Where's my baby? by Gregg Dreise is a board book that encourages young readers to learn new adjectives in English and the names of iconic Australian animals in the First Nations language, Gamilaraay, in an enjoyable way.Filled with...

More Than These Bones is an epic and intercontinental poetry work detailing the author's journey through heartbreak and self-discovery. The book is rooted in place. Pieces land in multiple settings the bar, the beach, the bush and sometimes, the bedroom,...

Age range 4+Another simple, universal story from Sally Morgan and Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, this time, a beautifully illustrated celebration of rain. Thank you rain! is a joyful read, and is full of the plants and animals that welcome rain: raindrops in...

Age range 6+A beautiful story about conservation, working together and hope.Owl and Night Parrot are nocturnal. They have a lovely big tree well away from all the noisy birds ... until one day they are woken up by the birds fighting over space in their...

Age range 1+The characters in Bush Mob Counting are from the 'Tales from the Bush Mob' Series of books about a group of animals Eagle, Sugar Glider, Bat, Platypus, Koala, Wombat, Kookaburra, Echidna and Kangaroo, who work together to solve problems. Each...

'For various reasons, this story cannot be proven. But that does not matter to me because in my Aboriginal way of being and knowing, stories like my uncle's do not need modern scientific proof to have validity - the role of story in Indigenous...

Age range 6+Can Black Boss Cocky and White Boss Cocky stop fighting long enough to notice the Bush Mob's ancient forest is in danger of going up in flames?Tales from the Bush Mob is a series of books about the Bush Mob, a group of animals who work...

Age range 12+'There must be payback.''There must, you are right,' Grandfather agrees.'What can you offer in exchange?'Grandfather holds up his arms, open, offering himself as a sacrifice. 'I am old.'Deklan 'Dek' Archer and his mates arrive at school to a...

Age range 4+'It may seem like a simple story but Beware the Argula! Is also a warning to everyone to be careful when they go out bush. I know these Argula exist, I have felt their presence and there is rock art depicting the Argula along the...

Age range 5 to 9Every week, Rosie and her mother drive down the bumpy dirt road and across the rocky riverbed to visit the 'Shop Train'.The Shop Train was inspired by the Tea and Sugar train that began operating in 1917 to provide supplies and...

**Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Book of the Year****Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2024, Indigenous Writer's Prize**She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann...

Age range 8 to 12'Our history is full of stories about hairy people, furry people, yowies, bunyips and monster apes. But this is the story about the hairy holes. The bush judges who kept everything in balance. Until the new people came.'Ever wonder about...

Age range 7 to 12An insightful and humorous story of a young girl's determination to be who she wants to be.Karan rolls her eyes. 'What's this year's theme? Oh no, let me guess,' she looks into the distance, pretending to ponder the possibilities...

'It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go beyond what we knew from our Mother's stories of him? The past, present and future need to be spoken about and...

Age range 6+Gecko, Thorny Devil and Scrubby Python admire Bungarra and hatch a plan to surprise him with this very special birthday gift ... but their plan goes horribly wrong.Tales from the Bush Mob is a series of books about the Bush Mob, a group of...

Age range 5 to 7Hidden in the sand dunes bordering a dusty, 1960s pearling town is a very special tree. Every day, Ella and Mia's grandpa comes home from work with a treat from the tree - the best-tasting toast in the world.Every night, grandpa...

Age range 3 to 9Clever Crow is an endearing and witty tale that follows the exploits of a hungry and very clever crow. Crow searches in the bush for food but he can find none. It is only when he comes across people preparing for a ceremony that his luck...

Age range 5-8 "The other kids playing were bigger you see, 'Why is there no one the same size as me?' Without all the kids he'd played with and known, Alfie felt small, not to mention alone." Another endearing book by David...

Age range 6+Deadly D and Justice Jones return in their most exciting and funny story yet!The action-packed, rugby league adventures of Deadly D and Justice Jones just got a whole lot deadlier. As Deadly D continues to be the NRL's hottest superstar,...