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Pidge’s Poppies (Jan Andrews, illus Timothy Ide, Ford St)
Released April 2024
Pidge’s Poppies by Jan Andrews, illustrated by Timothy Ide (Medieval Monsters and Other Creatures), is a charming lesson on the role of carrier pigeons during war, encouraging young readers to... Read more
Signal Erased (Adele Jones, Rhiza Edge)
Released April 2024
Signal Erased is the latest YA near-science-fiction novel by Adele Jones. The story follows Anna Faraday, a high schooler with a remarkable singing voice and a traumatic past. While occupied with... Read more
Audrey’s Gone AWOL (Annie de Monchaux, Ultimo)
Released April 2024
Annie de Monchaux’s debut novel, Audrey’s Gone AWOL, is a beautifully crafted and witty coming-of-middle-age tale that explores womanhood, motherhood, life, death, marriage and betrayal. Audrey has devoted her life... Read more
The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist (Anders Sparring, illus Per Gustavsson, Gecko Press)
Released April 2024
Anders Sparring’s The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist is a first-in-series chapter book that ticks many boxes young primary school children love: comedy, crime, and fun family connections. Opening with... Read more
Alice™: The biggest untold story in the history of money (Stuart Kells, MUP)
Released April 2024
An Australian inventor patented the future of world finance. An Australian journalist saw what finance had become and told the world. Business and finance writer Stuart Kells (The Library: A... Read more
When the World Was Soft (Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation, A&U Children’s)
Released April 2024
The Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation (based in Roebourne and Ngurrawaana Community, in WA’s Pilbara region) has compiled Yindjibarndi Creation Stories in a compelling and beautiful graphic novel format. For readers... Read more
The Cave (Victor Kelleher, Eagle Books)
Released April 2024
In Victor Kelleher’s upper-middle-grade prehistoric adventure novel The Cave, young Irian—one of the few survivors after the Beast (a sabre-toothed tiger) attacks the cave where he lives—is traumatised into muteness... Read more
How to Knit a Human (Anna Jacobson, NewSouth)
Released April 2024
The contents of Anna Jacobson’s memoir How to Knit a Human are the stuff of nightmares: a young, award-winning artist and poet has a psychotic break, is involuntarily hospitalised and... Read more
Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press)
Released April 2024
Annie Fernando has flown to London to meet her estranged uncle Suri. So begins the captivating tale of family, love and secrets told through the lives of three generations of... Read more
Excitable Boy: Essays on risk (Dominic Gordon, Upswell)
Released April 2024
Dominic Gordon’s Excitable Boy: Essays on risk is a collection of punchy vignettes about his life growing up in Melbourne in the 1990s and early 2000s. Gordon sets out an... Read more
Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree (Pamela Freeman, illus Liz Anelli, Walker)
Released April 2024
With breathtaking illustrations, Seed to Sky: Life in the Daintree is packed with fun facts about the animals and plants native to the Daintree Rainforest region. After the success of... Read more
Mitchell Itches (Kristin Kelly, illus Amelina Jones, EK Books)
Released April 2024
With one in five children living with eczema, Mitchell Itches will be a valuable resource for those looking to better understand and manage this common condition. Written by nurse and preschool... Read more
Pheasants Nest (Louise Milligan, A&U)
Released April 2024
Pheasants Nest is a thriller about every journalist’s nightmare—that they, too, will be reduced to clickbait headlines and long-form reflective true crime essays. There may be no more fitting journalist... Read more
Roarsome (Joel Slack-Smith, illus Rebel Challenger, Scholastic)
Released April 2024
Roarsome is the first book in a new illustrated junior fiction series by TV comedy writer Joel Slack-Smith. Like many kids, Walter wants the latest tech for his birthday—a nitro-powered... Read more
Gus and the Missing Boy (Troy Hunter, Wakefield)
Released March 2024
Gus Green is his injured mother’s primary carer after she was involved in a car accident; he is also gay and overweight. A true crime fanatic with aspirations of one... Read more
Joy Moody Is Out of Time (Kerryn Mayne, Bantam)
Released March 2024
For two decades, Cassiopeia (Cassie) and Andromeda (Andie) Moody have understood their destiny. They are special, chosen and kept safe, spending most of their lives within the confines of their Melbourne home,... Read more
Unique: What autism can teach us about difference, connection and belonging (Jodi Rodgers, Hachette)
Released March 2024
Neurodiversity commentary often references the double empathy problem, the concept that (put simply) neurodivergent–neurotypical communication can be more challenging than communication between people with the same neurotype. A related concept—neurodivergent... Read more
My Heart (Katrina McKelvey, illus Deb Hudson, EK Books)
Released March 2024
My Heart by Katrina McKelvey is a picture book about a loving mother–child relationship. The mother character reflects on her feelings while pregnant, after birth and as she watches her... Read more
Kin: Family in the 21st century (Marina Kamenev, NewSouth)
Released March 2024
While women’s rights over their bodies continue to be depleted in the United States, Kin: Family in the 21st century presents the history of a related struggle: the right to... Read more
Alphabetter (Maura Pierlot, illus Jorge Garcia Redondo, Affirm)
Released March 2024
Alphabetter: A Better You and Me, from A to Z is a new educational picture book from Affirm Press, which published the popular Life Lessons for Little Ones series. Written by... Read more
