Form/Genre: Children

Andy and Terry are celebrating Christmas in their 156-storey treehouse which now has 13 new storeys, including an aquarium wonderland, a wishing well, a world-record breaking level, a TV quiz show hosted by Quizzy the quizzical quizbot, a lost property office, a lost sausage office, a super-stink...

Andy and Terry have built their biggest treehouse yet! It has a Santa Land, a potato-powered translation transmitter, an electric pony stable, a noisy level, a Monster Mash, a wild weather dome, a gingerbread house with a nice little old lady, a gecko chamber, and a hall of funhouse mirrors.But, ...

OUR STORIES is a funny, relatable and engaging new early chapter book series that celebrates Australia's multicultural society with authors and illustrators from a diverse range of backgrounds.New friends Franco and Lucas are about to have their first sleepover, and they want to know everything a...

Who will hold the winning hand? Sherlock meets Ocean's Eleven in this wickedly funny, action-packed crime caper.Darkus Knightley is used to expecting the unexpected. An extraordinary solver of crimes, with immense powers of deduction, and regularly found bedecked in tweed, Darkus is anything but ...

AAAA! That's the sound heard often from the the Fox siblings as only sister Paige discovers Quincy the iguana has eaten her homework, older brother Peter applies permanent marker on his face drawing a fake goatee, and younger brother and expert video gamer Jason loses to Paige. Throw in the AAAAs...

"If you′ve got a minute to spare I′ll more than gladly relate to you the real, true, fair-dinkum, ridgy-didge, authentic story ..."Bill ′Swampy′ Marsh is one of Australia′s most popular storytellers -- he knows a good story when he hears it and now he has gathered together a collection of real Au...

Megan Logan’s sixteenth birthday party is in eleven days, and she still doesn’t have a date. For months she’s been secretly in love with her best friend, Justin, but she’s afraid to tell him how she feels. By the time her party starts, though, boys will be the last thing on her mind. While Megan ...

Meet Cassidy. With her embarrassing dad, pregnant mum, loser brother and knicker-chewing dog, she's almost invisible in her family. So she's hoping Year 7 is her time to shine, especially since a test proved she's Gifted & Talented. The only problem is she picked her answers at random. But surely...

When Dorrie and her brother Marcus chase Moe-an unusually foul-tempered mongoose-into the janitor's closet of their local library, they make an astonishing discovery: the headquarters of a secret society of ninja librarians.Their mission: protect those whose words get them into trouble, anywhere ...

Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school — and her reputation — behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted.Fr...

Adelaide leads a quiet life in the midst of the city. At night she listens to the song of the stars, but during the day she watches over the others like her: the still ones, the quiet ones, those who dance and dream alone.Little does Adelaide know that her secret world will soon be transformed in...

Twelve year old Joanie loves animals. Her family often fosters animals for a local rescue operation. Joanie desperately wants more pets, but her father remains stalwart in his opposition to this idea. Because of this impasse the relationship between Joanie and her father is rocky.One night the re...

‘The Adventure Begins’ follows four children who, shipwrecked and washed ashore on a magical island, unwittingly create a deadly virus that could lead to the extinction of all of its only inhabitants, THE DRAGONS. Can a cure be found? Will any of the 200 dragons survive? Will the four evade captu...

Explore Fairyland in this truly magical story, where you'll encounter the Goblin Dog, rescue a princess and visit the Land of Storytellers. This is an irresistible story for all who've ever stepped into the Enchanted Wood and a fantastic introduction to the Magic Faraway Tree stories for young ch...

After years of watching superhero movies, reading comics and fantasising about being a crime-fighter, he decides to become one.First of all he needs a superhero name, a superhero costume and some superpowers. Then he needs to find some crime to fight. His diary chronicles his valiant attempts to ...

Caterwaul the cat jumps from the frying pan into the fire when he escapes the clutches of the Witch of Red Moon Forest and moves in with the aging Queen Druciah, thinking he has finally found a home. Things seem pretty good until he discovers that there is one small catch: Caterwaul must find the...

Jasper and Scruff: Jasper has everything he could want – a fancy apartment, bow ties in every colour and a large book collection. The only thing he’s missing is the right type of friends! Jasper wants to become a member of ‘The Sophisticats’, a society for exceptional felines, more than anything....

While reading it, I kept thinking, “This is Home Alone for dogs!” There’s plenty of action and adventure, some very funny scenes, and I love the justice that prevails at the end. Five stars!”For the first three years of his life, Koko, a small breed of dog called a Shih Tzu, lived with a little o...

Penrose, a cat with a knack for math, takes children on an adventurous tour of mathematical concepts from fractals to infinity.

Skatergirl is cool. She has cool hair, she wears cool clothes and she rides a really cool skateboard. Scooterboy, on the other hand, lives on the not-so-cool side of cool... When Scooterboy and Skatergirl get together, only one thing is certain - something hilarious is about to happen!