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An empowering and funny new series from Australian Paralympic Gold Medallist & Grandslam Champion Dylan Alcott!

Dylan loves to come first. From breaking the wheelchair wheelie world record to playing with his little sister to coding amazing games, he's always trying to win. And with the school sports carnival coming up, he's sure he'll nail it on the day. But suddenly nothing seems to be going his way. His parents keep interfering, he's losing on and off the field, and then there's the disaster with the Party of the Year.

It takes the people who care about Dylan to help him realise that winning is not always about coming first.

Dylan Alcott, former Aussie of the Year, teams up with writer Fiona Regan and illustrator Nahum Ziersch to create a fun series about sports, gaming and friendship.

It’s Easter with a twist in this hilarious mix-up of eggs with legs and hot cross BUMS…
Easter is a SPRINGY time of year!
But SOMETHING doesn’t look right here . . .

Spring into Easter with this laugh-out-loud journey through all things eggs, rabbits and chocolate – but with a twist! An Easter Bunny on a Space Hopper? Eggs with legs? A hot cross BUM? That’s not right!

With hilarious illustrations throughout from Lee Cosgrove, this silly seasonal story is bound to have kids hopping with delight!

Sing, dance and sign the alphabet with Emma Memma's Alphabet Day

 

The sun is rising, the birds are tweeting and Emma Memma is ready to start her day . . .

 

Sign the Auslan alphabet with Emma Memma and friends as they twirl through the day and prepare for a special surprise.

A wonderful first-concepts format for little hands based around days of the week.

 

'... brightly coloured, informative and educational, giving younger children things to do as they are read to.' ReadPlus

 

What day is it today?

 

 

From Making Monday to Signing Sunday, discover the days of the week with Emma Memma and her friends.

 

 

This tabbed board book takes readers through the days of the week with a short narrative, encouraging movement and fun. The final spread asks what today's day is.

 

 

Join Emma Memma and her friends as they dance, sing and sign on these special days of the week-

 

 

- Making Monday

 

- Twirly Tuesday

 

- Wombat Wednesday

 

- Thank You Thursday

 

- Friendship Friday

 

- Sporty Saturday

 

- Signing Sunday

Sing, dance and sign the much-loved nursery rhyme with Emma Memma.

 

 

 

 

The wheels on the bus go round and round . . .

 

 

Join Emma Memma on the Butterfly Bus as she drives around town to pick up her friends. Can you guess who lives in each house along the way? Beep! Beep! All aboard!

Sing, dance, sign. Join Emma Memma for a magical story time.

 

Emma Memma loves to twirl on Twirly Tuesday!

 

Sing, dance and sign with Emma Memma, Waffles the Wombat and all their friends as they each learn how to twirl in their own way.

Simply add water to bring eggs and springtime animals magically to life.
Filled with simple, black-and white images of decorative eggs with bunnies, chicks and other Eastery friends. Just use the brush provided to sweep water over the designs and watch as spring colours magically appear! Great for keeping little ones busy and helping with brush control skills. Simply tuck the waterproof back flap under each page as it's painted, to stop water from seeping through to the rest of the book.

About the Book

Relish in mischief, adventure and the most unusual family ever, with the bestselling and multi-award-winning Katrina Nannestad.

 

Frances Bloom lives all alone in a cottage by the sea. She's having a marvellous time until her nasty teacher, Ms Thistle, learns there is no-one looking after her. Frances needs to find a family, quick smart, or she'll be sent away to Bleak Island Home for Unwanted Children and Dogs.

As hard as Frances looks, nobody meets her high standards ... until she stumbles across a large, honey-coloured bear raiding the rubbish bins ... and a garden gnome fishing in the flowerbed. Welcome, Grandma Maude and Grandpa Harold!

Together, this strange trio creates a new family, writing their own rules with each misadventure!

Delight in the cheeky antics of eight-year-old Frances Bloom with multi-award-winning Australian author Katrina Nannestad.

Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who can make it happen.

When Max discovers that everyone is more interested in watching soccer than his stand-up routine, he needs to come up with a plan fast. How can he compete with the world's favourite game?

Max is the funny kid, but can he score his comedy goal?

Half-time shows, terrible coaches and little kids who pee on the goal posts are just some of the things in store for Max and his friends in this brand-new Funny Kid adventure.

FUNNY KID is the mega-bestselling series from author-illustrator Matt Stanton that has everyone laughing!

SERIES AWARDS

Funny Kid Prank Wars -- Winner of the 2023 YABBA Award for Fiction for Older Readers

Funny Kid Catastrophe -- Shortlisted for the 2023 Russell Prize for Humour Writing for Young People

A heartwarming bedtime story to share with little children, brought to life with ten twinkly lights.

 

 It's bedtime for little bear... but all those twinkly stars in the night sky look ever so exciting! Each time you turn a page, you'll see more and more stars as the sky is lit up by real lights. With delightful rhyming text and ten little lights, this charming story is a perfect book to share with little children at the end of a busy day.

What if your guide to the cosmos starts to lose his way?

Fascinated by her grandad, a famous astronomer, a little girl could listen to his star stories for hours. But one day he starts to forget the constellations and eventually he can’t even remember her name. Discover how love can reach across galaxies whether stars shine brightly or grow dim.

Perfect for shared reading, lift the massive flaps in this book to animate the diggers and cranes, and find out facts about them, too.

 

 Lift the flaps to animate these heavy-lifting machines. Find out how deep a backhoe loader can dig, discover the incredible size of a dragline excavator, help a crane ship raise a shipwreck, and more. There's lots to find out about all kinds of diggers and cranes in this friendly, sturdy flap book, perfect for shared reading time and independent play alike.

Read the original May Gibbs stories that give us a peek behind the gum leaf at what makes our favourite Bush Babies their cheeky selves. This bind-up edition is beautifully embellished with May Gibbs' original illustrations and words from over 100 years ago. Containing stories from Gumnut Babies, Gum Blossom Babies, Boronia Babies, Flannel Flower Babies, Wattle Babies and much more.

Lift the flaps and explore 100 first words with Hairy Maclary and his rascally gang in this bumper-sized board book!

 

 

Take a walk with Hairy Maclary, and sniff out 100 first words along the way in this chunky lift-the-flap board book!

 

 

'A child's best introduction to books' - The Times

 

 

Join the rascally dog and his friends as they go on adventures around the house and off up the street, to the park, to the zoo, and chase cats, play games and more - and discover 100 key first words along the way.

 

 

Perfect for tots just learning to talk as well as for preschoolers getting ready to read, little ones will love exploring the colourful scenes and lifting lots of flaps on every page as they learn and play with Hairy Maclary.

 

 

Enchanting children since 1983, Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary and Friends is a top preschool brand all around the world, due to the quality of its language, its delightful characters and its humour.

 

 

Read all the Hairy Maclary and Friends books by Lynley Dodd!

From the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of the Food Group series comes a Christmas picture book featuring the ever-popular character the Big Cheese. Perfect for holiday promotions, this book includes a tear sheet of twelve holiday cards and festive foil on the cover.

Every December, the Big Cheese hosts a gigantic jamboree with flashy decorations, sparkling outfits, extravagant gifts, ear-bursting music, and jaw-dropping entertainment. It's the #1 party in town and it can't be beat!

But this holiday season, mere hours before the festivities, disaster strikes! With no backup plan in place, the Big Cheese must call in a big favor to help save the big day. But will Christmas still be Christmas if it's not quite so grand

You don’t want to miss this hilarious, charming, and thought-provoking continuation of Jory John and Pete Oswald’s bestselling Food Group series.

A vibrant adventure in a book! With its rhythmic storyline, this classic charms little ones by introducing them to the world of baby animals.

The clear and engaging narrative is signature Mem Fox - perfect for first-time readers - while the vivid 'paper art' illustrations spark imaginations, echoing the whimsical style of Eric Carle.

See the world through the eyes of a toddler, with this perfect new picture book from much-loved pair Lisa Shanahan and Leila Rudge.

The sun is up and so is one gorgeous munchkin, ready to welcome the world!

With a delicious rhyming text and scrumptious illustrations, here is a joyous celebration of all the small wonders waiting to be discovered, in a single ordinary day.

AWARDS

Notable - CBCA Early Childhood Book 2022

Winner - Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2022 (Birth to 3 Years Category)

Longlisted - Australian Book Design Awards 2022

Calling all cat lovers! This perfectly giftable board book has fun with opposites in a colorful rhyming read-aloud.

Hi cat, bye cat.

Sad cat, glad cat.

Small cat, big cat.

This funny cat-centric board book by Jade Orlando is the purrfect rhyming read-aloud for teaching opposites. The lively text begs for repeat reading, and children will love spotting details in the vibrant art. With sleepy cats on the closing spread, Hi, Cat. Bye, Cat. is great for bedtime or anytime! 

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780063310490
• ISBN 10: 006331049X
• Imprint: HarperCollins US
• On Sale: 29/07/2025
• Pages: 24
• List Price: 19.99 AUD
• Age: From 0 years
• Age: To 2 years

BISAC1: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Cats

Three stories in one book! The second book in this hilarious illustrated fiction series from the author of bestselling series Dragon Girls and illustrator of Diary of a Pug!

 

Violet Voom has three pets, one jet and an itch to travel.

Wherever Violet goes in her fabulous purple jet, her fabulous (but not purple) pets go too. The pets – a sleek cat, a goofy poodle and a parrot with a terrible case of beak leak – are called the Jet Set Pets. And the jet? It's called the Pet Jet. Of course.

Fly stunt planes in Japan!

Find the egg thief in France!

Sail the seas with your besties on a friend-SHIP!

Strap in for this ridiculously fun series by bestselling author Maddy Mara (of DRAGON GIRLS fame) and beloved illustrator Kyla May (DIARY OF A PUG).

Three stories in one book!

Empowering and fun picture books from the cool musician mums everyone loves to sing along with ...

You've got my back, and I know that I've got this,
I'll show you how brave I can be.
'Cause I had you to teach me.

From Byll and Beth Stephen, the writers behind the ABC TV musical sensations Teeny Tiny Stevies, comes a heartwarming story about growing up and moments of everyday bravery – in every stage, and at every age.

A stellar introduction to the Universe and the invisible forces that hold it together.

 

 Blast off to investigate the mysteries of the Universe: from blazing stars to the unreachable depths of space. Discover where the Universe came from, how it works (clue: it has a lot to do with gravity) and what else might be out there...