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Bob Graham is a Kate Greenaway winning author-illustrator who has written and illustrated many acclaimed children’s
picture books including How to Heal a Broken Wing, Max, Jethro Byrde: Fairy
Child and April Underhill: Tooth Fairy.
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In this charming and beautiful picture book, the journey of the sun is captured
as it travels from the far side of the world, across countries, chasing the night before
arriving at little Coco’s house.
From prolific and multi-award winning writer and illustrator Bob Graham comes an enchanting story
about the sun, and how it makes its journey from the far side of the world to the home of one small
girl. The sun leaps whole countries, chasing the night, before bursting at last in a fanfare of warm
golden light through Coco’s window!
How The Sun Got To Coco’s HouseBy Bob Graham
3+ years
Walker Books • Hbk • Picture BookAug 2015
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From award-winning poet JonArno Lawson comes a beautifully illustrated wordless picture
book - an ode to the importance of small things, small people and small gestures.
In this wordless, beautifully illustrated picture book from award-winning poet JonArno Lawson, a little girl
collects wild flowers while her distracted father pays her - and their surroundings - little attention. An ode to the importance of small things, small people and small
gestures, Footpath Flowers is a quiet but powerful testament to the joy that children can find in ordinary
things and the mutual value of giving.
Footpath FlowersBy JonArno Lawson
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
3+ years
Walker Books • Hbk • Picture Book
9781406361834Arrp $24.95 • NZrrp $27.99
Discover the NATO phonetic alphabet - and find layers of connection in every letter - in
an enchanting alphabet book from celebrated artist Isabelle Arsenault, illustrator of
Jane, the Fox, and Me.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie... Since 1956, whenever time and clarity are of the essence, everyone from fire fighters to
air traffic controllers has spelled out messages using the NATO phonetic alphabet. Now, with equal precision -
infused with a singular wit and whimsy - the award-winning Isabelle Arsenault interprets this internationally
recognized code and makes it her own.
AlphaBy Isabelle Arsenault
5+ years
Walker Books • Hbk • Picture Book
Aug 2015
Walker Books Australia • Hbk • Picture Book
9781922077448Arrp $27.95 • NZrrp $29.99
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PlatypusSue Whiting • Mark Jackson
EmuClaire Saxby • Graham Byrne
Big Red KangarooClaire Saxby • Graham Byrne
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Flight Of The Honey Bee Raymond Huber • Brian Lovelock
Nature Storybooks
Meet the platypus, emu, big red kangaroo and honey bee in these narrative non-fiction picture books, part
of the successful Nature Storybook list.
Aug2015
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MidnightBy Mark Greenwood
Illustrated by Frané Lessac
Can We Help?: Kids Volunteering To Help
By George AnconaA narrative non-fiction picture book, new to
paperback, from the award-winning duo Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac.
Real kids make a real difference in their communities in this vibrantly photographed
chronicle by George Ancona.
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9781406359459Arrp $27.95 • NZrrp $29.99
7+ yearsWalker Books • Hbk • Non Fiction
The TudorsBy Marcia Williams
Marcia Williams brings the Tudor kings and queens to life in her trademark comic strip style.
Join much-loved author/illustrator Marcia Williams on a comic strip journey through Tudor history! A witty, accessible introduction to the Tudors, with
full-colour illustrations throughout, from the author of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Plays and The Romans:
Gods, Emperors and Dormice. Arthur Inkblott, Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite scribe, retells the most famous
moments in Tudor history, from the Wars of the Roses and the Spanish Armada to Christopher Columbus’s
discovery of America and Henry VIII’s many marriages! Packed with jokes and colourful comic-strip
illustrations, this is Marcia Williams at her very best.
Sept2015
Meet Lily the Elf!
Meet Judy Moody & Stink!
Lily The ElfBy Anna Branford
Illustrated by Lisa Coutts
9781925081060Arrp $7.95 • NZrrp $9.99
9780763674434Arrp $19.95 • NZrrp $22.99
5+ years
5+ years
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Candlewick Press • Hbk • Illustrated Fiction
Candlewick Press • Pbk • Illustrated Fiction
Candlewick Press • Hbk • Illustrated Fiction
Although Lily lives in a miniature elfish world, she is very relatable to her young readers.
Lily’s dilemmas and adventures centre on the concerns, fears and interests of girls 5+.
Megan McDonald is the creator of the popular and award-winning Judy Moody and Stink
series. She is also the author of three Sisters Club stories, two stories about Ant and Honey
Bee, and many other books for children. She lives in Sebastopol, California.
Perfectly pitched for emergent readers with simple sentence
structure, short chapters, B&W illustrations, large font and white space, all designed for easy and
well-supported reading.
2015 is Judy’s 15th anniversary & Stink’s 10th anniversary!
9781925081077Arrp $7.95 • NZrrp $9.99
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5+ years
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Lily The Elf: The Wishing Seed
Triple Pet Troubleby Megan McDonald • illust. by Erwin Madrid
Lily The Elf: The Elf Flute
Stink Moody In Master Of Disasterby Megan McDonald • illust. by Erwin Madrid
Lily The Elf: The Precious Ring
Judy Moody And Stink: The Wishbone Wishby Megan McDonald • illust. by Peter H. Reynolds
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9781925081053Arrp $7.95 • NZrrp $9.99
5+ yearsLily The Elf: The Midnight Owl
Ragweed’s Farm Dog HandbookBy Anne Vittur Kennedy
The Princess And The PonyBy Kate Beaton
This tongue-in-cheek primer on how to be a good farm dog – and how ignoring the rules may result in a biscuit – is a
guaranteed treat.
The teeny tiniest of adorable farting ponies gives the biggest of laughs in this riotously inventive new title from Kate
Beaton, the artist behind the bestselling Hark! A Vagrant.
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Quest and Journey
Aaron Becker began drawing picture books at the age of eight. After many years of practice,
he published his first wordless picture book, Journey, which was named a Caldecott Honor Book. He is now on a quest to share his books
with as many young readers as possible. “There is nothing more gratifying than seeing kids hold one of my books close to their heart,” he says.
“My hope is that these stories might inspire us all to place a bit more faith in the power of
wonder.”
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5+ years
Walker Books • Pbk • Picture Book
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5+ years
Quest
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Walker Books Australia • Hbk • Illustrated Fiction
Walker Books • Hbk • Illustrated Fiction
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Candlewick Press • Hbk • Graphic Novel
The Cat With The Coloured TailBy Gillian Mears
Illustrated by Dinalie Dabarera
The Diamond BrothersBy Anthony Horowitz
My Father Is A Polar BearBy Michael Morpurgo
Illustrated by Felicita Sala
Baba Yaga’s AssistantBy Marika McCoola
Illustrated by Emily Carroll
Nobody Saw No OneBy Steve Tasane
Honor GirlBy Maggie Thrash
A magical cat, an ice-cream van that makes delicious moon-creams and a quest to bring joy
to those who need it most.
Mr Hooper and The Cat with the Coloured Tail travel through the countryside in their ice-cream van.
They enjoy looking for heart shapes (their favourite game) and making people happy with their delicious
moon-creams. But a dark feeling is following the cat. Something is wrong. When the ice-cream van enters the forest, Mr Hooper and the cat realise the heart of the world is in danger. Will they be able to save it? A
lyrical fable about love and healing.
“Look at the polar bears,” said Terry. “You see that one on the left, the fatter one? That’s our dad
– our real dad. But you’re not to tell.”
Drawing on Michael Morpurgo’s own childhood experience of first seeing his real father on television, My Father Is a Polar Bear tells the story of two young
brothers rediscovering their birth father in the most unlikely of places - and in an entirely unexpected guise! A warm and delightful tale of family bonds and love told
by a master storyteller and beautifully illustrated by a talented new artist.
Most children think twice before braving a haunted wood filled with terrifying beasties to match wits with
a witch, but not Masha. The fearsome witch of folklore needs an assistant, and Masha needs an adventure.
She may be clever enough to enter Baba Yaga’s house-on-chickenlegs, but within its walls, deceit is
the rule. To earn her place, Masha must pass a series of tests, outfox a territorial bear, and make dinner for
her host. No easy task, with children on the menu! Spooky and poignant, Marika McCoola’s stunning
debut is a storytelling feat and a visual feast.
A spirited urban adventure set against the backdrop of a troubled care system; Oliver Twist revisited for fans of
Benjamin Zephaniah, Kevin Brooks and Melvyn Burgess. Contemporary London – a gang of shoplifters up
Seven Sisters Rd, snatching smartphones and stealing identities... a ‘family’ of boys long ago lost in the system. Angel-faced Alfi Spar has fled the Tenderness Residential
Unit and finds himself on the streets, until his old mate from the home, Citizen Digit, offers him a roof. But their past at Tenderness House is not ready to release them;
the boys saw something nobody should see, and the badness is coming after them.
Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls. A split-second of innocent physical
contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and most surprising of all (at least to Maggie),
female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl, and Maggie’s savant-like proficiency at the camp’s rifle
range is the only thing keeping her heart from exploding. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way
about Maggie, it’s too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle, let alone to understand.
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Timmy FailureBy Stephan Pastis
From the New York Times bestselling cartoonist Stephan Pastis comes the hilarious series about the comically overconfident sleuth, Timmy Failure.
Walker Books • Hbk • Junior Fiction
Walker Books • Hbk • Junior Fiction
Walker Books • Hbk • Junior Fiction
Walker Books • Pbk • Junior Fiction
Walker Books • Pbk • Junior Fiction
9781406339802Arrp $17.95 • NZrrp $19.99
7+ years
9781406347876Arrp $12.95 • NZrrp $14.99
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9781406356342Arrp $17.95 • NZrrp $19.99
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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Timmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done
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7+ yearsTimmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done
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7+ yearsTimmy Failure: We Meet Again
An exciting new cover look for this hilarious spoof detective series.
Meet the Diamond Brothers, the world’s worst private-detective agency, in this Chandler-esque
spoof from the creator of the bestselling Alex Rider series. Tim Diamond is the world’s worst
private detective, but unfortunately for his younger brother Nick, the cases keep coming in. Life as
the younger brother of the world’s most defective detective can be tough and the adventures in
these two books will test Nick to the full.
9781406363562Arrp $14.95 • NZrrp $16.99
9+ years
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9781406363579Arrp $14.95 • NZrrp $16.99
9+ years
The Diamond Brothers In The Blurred Man & I Know What You Did Last Wednesday.The Diamond Brothers In The French Confection & The Greek Who Stole Christmas.
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The Rest Of Us Just Live Hereby Patrick Ness
The Tribe Book 3: The Foretelling Of Georgie Spider
by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Award-winning writer Patrick Ness reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable.
Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren’t the Chosen One? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to
graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes
there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the
extraordinary in your ordinary life. An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as “an insanely
beautiful writer”.
The third and final book in the thrilling eco-dystopian series The Tribe.
A storm was stretching out across futures to swallow everything in nothing, and it was growing larger, which
meant it was getting nearer… Georgie Spider has foretold the end of the world, and the only one who can stop it is Ashala Wolf. But Georgie has also foreseen Ashala’s
death. As the world shifts around the Tribe, Ashala fights to protect those she loves from old enemies and new
threats. And Georgie fights to save Ashala. Georgie Spider can see the future. But can she change it?
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9781921720109Arrp $19.95 • NZrrp $21.99
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14+ years
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Bob The Railway DogBy Corinne Fenton
Illustrated by Andrew McLeanThe true story of a little dog who had
adventure in his heart and the rattle of the rails in his soul.
In the early days of the railway, when shiny new tracks were opening vast areas of Australia, there
was an adventurous dog who was part of it all. As the tracks were being laid he was there on the
train – riding in his favourite spot on top of the Yankee engine. Everyone knew him. He was Bob
the Railway Dog.
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Dragonkeeper 5: Shadow SisterBy Carole Wilkinson
The fifth instalment in the internationally bestselling and award-winning Dragonkeeper series. Now in
paperback.
Tao is learning to be a dragonkeeper. With no one to teach him it is not easy. He must keep Kai safe but there
is danger at every turn – they are pursued by a gang of murderous nomads, tricked by unseen spirits, attacked by a giant seven-headed snake and disoriented in the realms of the dead. Most terrifying of all is the ghost who can turn blood into ice. Tao knows he must prove he is truly worthy
of the name dragonkeeper. But the road west is never straight and nothing for Tao and Kai is what it seems.
Strayby Rachael Craw
The second book in an exciting new YA/crossover series about genetically engineered
individuals with superhuman abilities.
Evie is a Shield: designed to kill in order to protect, and the Affinity Project have finally come for her. But Evie
isn’t ready for the sinister organisation to take control of her life, her body, her mind. She isn’t ready to follow their rules about who may live and who must die – not when it condemns the innocent. She has one option: risk losing everything and everyone – including Jamie
– and run.
9781922179630Arrp $19.95 • NZrrp $21.99
14+ years
Walker Books Australia • Pbk • Young Adult Fiction
9781922179623Arrp $19.95 • NZrrp $21.99
14+ years
Book 2: Stray
Book 1: Spark
Black Dog BooksAn imprint of Walker Books Australia.
Little LunchBy Danny Katz • Illustrated by Mitch Vane
9781925126655Arrp $9.95 • NZrrp $11.99
8+ years
Black Dog Books • Pbk • Illustrated Fiction
9781925126662Arrp $9.95 • NZrrp $11.99
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Little Lunch: The SlideLittle Lunch: The Monkey BarsLittle Lunch: The Bubblers
Little Lunch: The Old Climbing Tree
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Little Lunch: The School Gate
Little Lunch: The Off-Limits Fence
Join the Tribe!
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf is the first book in The Tribe and was short-listed for the
2012 Aurealis Awards in both the Science Fiction and Young Adult categories. Find out
more at www.thefirstwood.com.au
9781921720086Arrp $19.95 • NZrrp $21.99
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Walker Books Australia • Pbk • Young Adult Fiction
9781921720093Arrp $19.95 • NZrrp $21.99
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The Tribe Book 1: The Interrogation Of Ashala WolfThe Tribe Book 2: The Disappearance Of Ember Crow
Sept2015
Published to coincide with the Little Lunch TV series on ABC3. Each book inicludes three highly illustrated, hilarious stories about a group of kids and their adventures during the fifteen minutes of Little Lunch.
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