Oceania: Australia

Let’s Play! (Toddler Tales)

“…catches all the excitement of a playground adventure…a great book to share with toddlers before any play date. It gets toddlers excited while, at the same time, shows them how three friends can play nicely together.”

Dog Boy

Given to the Great Fater on the night of his birth, Boy is reared by a dog in a village whose people barely tolerate him, despite signs that he is favored, then travels far, striving to find his rightful place in the brutal world of humans.

Surrender

As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finningan.

By The River

A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother’s death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.

Helicopter Man

Pete’s dad is being pursued by a secret organisation. Both their lives are in danger and when the helicopters hover near by they must hide.

Millie and The Right Heron

Millie is a daughter of an artist and a scientist. In a new town, a school project due, an enemy called Tayla, a boy with the initial RH and Tom himself are too much for Millie.

The Red Shoe

Three sisters growing up in post-World War II Sydney, Australia, deal with their mentally unstable father, their possibly unfaithful mother, and the defecting Russian spy who lives next door.

Does My Head Look Big In This?

Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith without losing her identity or sense of style.

While I live

For Ellie Linton, being back on the farm with her parents is what makes the terrible things that happened during the war. But the war won’t let her go. A devastating tragedy has shattered any hope she ever had to reclaim her life, or herself.

Could You? Would You?

A book of questions and possibilities to get kids laughing, thinking, talking, drawing, writing and exploring the world.