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'Goodnight, Little Penguins' by The Penguin Foundation and Jedda Robaard
A perfect bedtime story, starring the iconic penguins of the Phillip Island Penguin Parade.
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'World of Colour' By Jess Racklyeft
Come and take a closer look at nature’s paintbox and the rainbow of life all around the world, from one of Australia’s best-loved picture book creators.
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'Hello, Spring Baby!' By Jess Racklyeft
From bestselling author-illustrator Jess Racklyeft comes the perfect welcome present for any Spring Baby.
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'Xiao Xin' on the 2025 B&N Children’s & YA Book Awards Picture Books Shortlist
Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng’s picture book Be Careful, Xiao Xin! (Crown Books for Young Readers), has been recognised in the 2025 B&N Children’s & YA Book Awards Picture Books Shortlist!
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Penguin Random House Australia acquires two books from emerging YA author, Aurelne Thian
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired two YA romance books from emerging Perth-based author, Aurelne Thian. The deal was brokered by agent Danielle Binks.
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'Näku Dhäruk' wins the 2025 Northern Territory History Book Award!
Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy has won the 2025 Northern Territory History Book Award!Posted
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'Sambu Won't Grow' The Cockatoo Crew Book 2 by Lora Inak, illustrated by Kruti Desai
Sambu is about to turn eight, and his family is planning a big birthday celebration! He has just one wish: to grow tall and strong like his Kenyan Maasai Warrior ancestors. Then maybe his older sisters will stop calling him a baby—and he might finally stop being scared of the strange noises on the roof at night.
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'Elif’s Itchy Palm' The Cockatoo Crew Book 1 by Lora Inak, illustrated by Kruti Desai
It’s Elif’s first day at Cockatoo Hill English Language School, and although she learned a little bit of English in Türkiye, she’s worried she won’t make any new friends in Australia.
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Danielle Binks on the 2025 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award Longlist
Author Danielle Binks’ Six Summers of Tash & Leopold (Lothian Children’s Books) has been longlisted in the Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award in 2025.
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JdM Creators Shortlisted in the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards
Huge congratulations to our authors shortlisted in the 2025 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards!
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Vale Tracy Sorensen
“He drinks his espresso coffee made in a little Italian percolator and seeks out controversial or banned books on the premise that if a book is banned, it is probably interesting”
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The Silent Listener' by Lyn Yeowart
‘A wickedly dark debut – haunting and unputdownable.’ —Christian White, author of The Nowhere Child
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'The Hollow Girl' by Lyn Yeowart
Set in a once grand gothic mansion steeped in long-buried secrets, The Hollow Girl is the stunning new literary suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Silent Listener.
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JdM cohort proudly part of 'Readers and Writers Against the Genocide'
Readers and Writers Against the Genocide is an artist community of; ‘Book-lovers who believe in a powerful role for literature to raise awareness & enable others to speak up & be visible with their opposition to genocide.’
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Clare Wright in The Age Book of the Year shortlist
Twelve books have made the shortlists for this year’s entries in The Age Book of The Year awards, and Clare Wright’s Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions is one of them!
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