My Heart is a Compass by Deborah Marcero (Little, Brown & Co, 2018) is a wonderful picture book about imagination and all the places it…
My Heart is a Compass by Deborah Marcero (Little, Brown & Co, 2018) is a wonderful picture book about imagination and all the places it…
A Leaf Called Greaf (Fremantle Press, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated, sensitively written story about grief. Author/illustrator Kelly Canby has created a delicate and approachable…
The Black Book of Colours by Menena Cottin and illustrated by Rosana Faria (translated by Elisa Amalfi) (Walker Books, 2008) is one of my favourite…
Miss Understood by Kat Apel and Beau Wylie (Scholastic Australia, 2022) shares a new perspective on the classic tale of the three little pigs and…
I’m a big fan of books for children that incorporate STEM themes, and the Engibear picture books by Andrew King and Benjamin Johnston are long-time…
I love picture books that create a safe space to start conversations about big ideas and challenging concepts with children. These kinds of picture books…
Jim Panzee wakes up feeling grumpy. He’s not sure why and he’d really prefer to not talk about it, but his well-meaning friends just won’t…
Freddy is Jonah’s favourite soft toy. Freddy isn’t a teddy bear, he’s a… well, no-one’s quite sure what Freddy is. Jonah doesn’t care – he…
Maddie is fascinated by the mathematics embedded in the world around her – the symmetry of flowers, the tessellated pattern of the bricks in her…
Because one person was inspired to compose beautiful music, because a group of people played that music for an audience, because a team of people…