Books - Families

• Jana Curll, Jana Curll
• Ladybird
• ISBN13: 9780241598269
• Published: 04-04-2024

A heart-warming story of friendship and courage from exciting new debut picture book illustrator, Jana Curll. Mountain and Cloud are the BEST of friends. They do everything together!  But when an enormous storm blows Cloud far, far away, they're lost without each other. Can the two fri...

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• John Schu
• Walker Books
• ISBN13: 9781529514568
• Published: 04-04-2024

Jake feels alone at school and alone at home. Some days it feels like the only people who understand him is the poet Emily Dickinson - and Jake's beloved grandma. But there is also the Voice inside him, louder than any other, who professes to know him best of all. The one that says "You have m...

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• Aaron Becker
• Walker Books
• ISBN13: 9781529517873
• Published: 04-04-2024

A master of the wordless form imagines a futuristic Noah's Ark in a luminous sci-fi parable for our changing world.  From the winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal and Shadowers' Choice Awards for Illustration 2024 for The Tree and the River.A master of the wordless form imagines a fut...

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• Elle McNicoll
• Knights Of Media
• ISBN13: 9781913311988
• Published: 04-04-2024

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark comes a powerful coming-of-age story from award-winning author Elle McNicoll. As Keedie and her twin Nina approach their fourteenth birthday, they seem to only be growing further apart. Keedie instead feels drawn to, and...

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• Claire Saxby, Jess Racklyeft
• Allen & Unwin Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9781761069505
• Published: 03-04-2024

Can you see the forest on this misty-morning mountain? Can you see where the tree stands? It is the tallest in this forest of tall trees. This tree is older than those who find it, younger than the land it grows from. Between sapwood and heartwood, water rises and energy flows. Listen to the l...

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• Xavier Bonet, Marie Trinchant
• Allen & Unwin
• ISBN13: 9781761069727
• Published: 03-04-2024

Lily Halfmoon has a secret. She's a witch! With her animal guardian and her powerful magic gemstone, she and her friends help protect the town of Piedraville from all kinds of dangers.It's almost Samhain, when magic is at its strongest, and witches from all over the world are gathe...

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• Holly Jackson
• HarperCollins
• ISBN13: 9780008582197
• Published: 02-04-2024

A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! 18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom's mysterious disappearance. 16 years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness....

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• Anders Sparring, Per Gustavsson, Julia Marshall
• Gecko Press
• ISBN13: 9781776575671
• Published: 01-04-2024

Theo is good at most things. He can almost count to a thousand, knows several French words and can operate the washing machine. But he can't lie or steal.  "You must try harder," says his mother sternly. The Pincher family love to steal things. It's what they are born for! When his pare...

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