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I look up to the birds that seem to be following us. They are migrating just like

us. And their journey, like ours, is very long, but they don’t have to cross any

borders.

3+ years

Flying Eye Books • Hbk • Picture Book

The Journeyby Francesca Sanna

With haunting echoes of current affairs this beautifully illustrated book explores the

unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape

the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page

is turned.

9781909263376Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp $27.99

Archie, Cupcake, Oliver, Valentine... the cat who lives on Blossom Street is called

something different by everyone, and loved by all. But there is one house on the street that he

hasn’t visited yet...

4+ years

Flying Eye Books • Hbk • Picture Book

Archie Snufflekins Oliver Valentine Cupcake Tiberius Cat

by Katie Harnett

In this sweet story, Katie Harnett explores how one well loved cat can change a lonely woman’s life and

bring a small community together.

9781910646052Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp $27.99

Bee & Me is a wordless picture book that is both a story of friendship and an introduction to the

ecology of the natural world.

3+ years

Old Barn Books • Hbk • Picture Book

Bee & Meby Alison Jay

We hear much about the plight of the bumble bee population and its implications for our planet’s future. This beautiful picture book makes the story personal

and brings a message of hope. A little girl befriends a bee, which takes her on a journey of discovery and to

an action each child can take to aid in conservation. Alison Jay’s original artwork brings the story gently to life, pointing up the sadness of a world without bees.

9781406368437Arrp $27.99 • NZrrp $29.99

2+ years

Walker Books • Hbk • Picture Book

The eagerly-anticipated finale of Aaron Becker’s wordless trilogy a spectacular,

suspenseful and moving story that brings its adventurer home.

Returnby Aaron Becker

Failing to get the attention of her busy father, a lonely girl turns back to a fantastic world for

friendship and adventure.

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3+ years

Walker Books • Hbk • Picture Book

A beautiful, poignant and timely manifesto for the myriad rewards of reading and sharing the enjoyment of stories.

A Child of Booksby Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston

From Oliver Jeffers and typographical fine artist, Sam Winston, comes an inspiring and lyrical picture book about a little girl who sails her raft ‘across a sea of words’ to arrive at the house of a small boy. There she invites him

to come away with her on an adventure where they can journey through ‘forests of fairy tales’ and ‘across mountains of make-believe’. Guided by

his new friend, the boy unlocks his imagination and a lifetime of magic lies ahead of him… But who will be next? Oliver’s elegant art is combined with

Sam’s astonishing typographical landscapes – beautifully shaped from excerpts of children’s classics and lullabies – to create a celebration of all

that books can do and all that books can become.

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9781406355345Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

Journey (PB)

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3+ years

Walker Books Australia • Hbk • Picture Book

Ahoy there! Meet Captain Sneer – a most boastful buccaneer!

Captain Sneer the Buccaneerby Penny Morrison

illustrated by Gabriel Evans

This rollicking, tongue-in-cheek rhyming story tells the tale of a boastful pirate who thinks he is rough and tough and brave and bold but, in true pantomime fashion, his crew – and the reader –

know otherwise!

9781406370683Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

4+ years

Walker Books • Pbk • Picture Book

In this beautifully illustrated story, Bob Graham shows how all the creatures and

the people of the world can be connected to each other in the most surprising ways.

Vanilla Ice Creamby Bob Graham

9781925381221Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

3+ years

Walker Books Australia • Pbk • Picture Book

My granny and her friends go to the beach, and I go too...

Granny Grommet and Meby Dianne Wolfer

illustrated by Karen Blair

9781922244406Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp$18.99

5+ years

Walker Books Australia • Pbk • Picture Book

Every frog is worthwhile, and it is a lucky Froggy who has Ted to tell him so.

The Frog Who Lost His Underpantsby Juliette MacIver

illustrated by Cat Chapman

9781847806666Arrp $27.99 • NZrrp $29.99

5+ years

Frances Lincoln • Hbk • Art Book

The next title in the much loved, highly respected child-centred art series Anholt’s Artists.

Frida Kahloby Laurence Anholt

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9781909263604Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp$27.99

3+ years

Flying Eye Books • Hbk • Picture Book

Professor Astro Cat’s Atomic Adventure

by Ben Newman and Dr Dominic Walliman

Physics is a very important part of our everyday lives! Just go for a walk through the park and

you’ll see for yourself. From the wind that rustles the trees, to the sun that keeps us warm, to

the car that drives us around and the food that gives us energy to play, physics is all around

us, all the time! As we journey through this book we will see how physics explains all of these

amazing things, and a whole lot more. We’ll look at the basic laws of Universe, the fundamental rules that describe the nature of our world and

beyond.

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9781847808851Arrp $19.99 • NZrrp$24.99

5+ years

Frances Lincoln • Hbk • Non Fiction Picture Book

In the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the lives of outstanding people from

designers and artists to scientists. All of them went on to achieve incredible things, yet all of them began life as a little child with a dream.

Little People, Big Dreams: Amelia Earhart

by Isabel Sánchez Vergaraillustrated by Maria Diamantes

9781847808905Maya Angelou

9781847807717Coco Chanel

9781847807700Frida Kahlo

9781910620106Arrp $27.99 • NZrrp $29.99

Wiz and Mug are back and headed to a mysterious beach town to meet its amphibious inhabitants!

12+ yearsNobrow • Hbk • Graphic Novel

Fantasy Sports 2: The Bandit of Barbel Bayby Sam Bosma

Wiz and Mug’s adventure continues as a teleportation spell accidentally drops them off in a ruined beach town.

A mysterious tournament and the town’s amphibious inhabitants confront Wiz and Mug with the revelation

that the United Order of Mages may not be exactly what it seems. Fantasy Sports is a funny and action-

filled graphic novel series that will capture the reader’s imagination and re-invigorate a love for the art of comics.

9781907704802Fantasy Sports 1

9780763672331Arrp $27.99 • NZrrp$29.99

10+ yearsCandlewick Press • Hbk • Graphic Novel

Award-winning graphic novelist Matt Phelan delivers a darkly stylized noir Snow White

set against the backdrop of Depression-era Manhattan.

Snow Whiteby Matt Phelan

The scene: New York City, 1928. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity

of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White,

returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the

King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange, sudden death; seven street

urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked

words “Another... More Beautiful... KILL.”

9781910959572Arrp $27.99 • NZrrp$29.99

8+ years

Otter-Barry Books • Hbk • Graphic Novel

A story of hope and courage in World War II.

Peter in Perilby Helen Bate

‘It was a cold dark night when Dad buried a box in the garden…’ Based on real experience, this vivid graphic

novel takes the reader right into the life of a family forced to live in secret when their city is occupied

by enemy forces. Narrated by six-year old Peter, it conveys the fears, uncertainties and bewilderment

of a child who never thought he or his parents were in any way different from anyone else and abruptly

find themselves ostracised, forced out of their home, and at the mercy of armed soldiers. How they avoid

being taken away, contrive to stay together, struggle to preserve their own normality and family life, in an city

being torn apart by warfare, makes engrossing reading.

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Meet Lily the elf, the tiny new star in this exciting series of chapter

books created specifically for emergent readers aged five and over. Lily lives with her dad and granny under a bridge in a busy

city. In her miniature elfish world Lily overcomes small dilemmas

– just the kind that even a human child may face!

Lily The ElfBy Anna Branford

Illustrated by Lisa Coutts 5+ years

Walker Books Australia • Paperback • Illustrated FictionArrp $7.99 • NZrrp $9.99

9781925081046

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Lily the Elf: The Precious Ring

Lily the Elf: The Midnight Owl

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Lily the Elf: The Elf Flute

Lily the Elf: The Wishing Seed

9781925381146Lily the Elf: The Sleepover

9781925381153Lily the Elf: The Jumble Sale

Chook Doolan, whose real name is Simon, is a bit of a chicken. That’s why everyone calls him

Chook. In this humorous series aimed at emergent readers aged

five and up, Chook learns that it’s not easy being brave. But

sometimes you need courage if you want to help your friends. Can

Chook rise to the occasion?

Chook DoolanBy James Roy

Illustrated by Lucinda Gifford 5+ years

Walker Books Australia • Paperback • Illustrated FictionArrp $7.99 • NZrrp $9.99

9781922244956

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Chook Doolan: Saves the Day

Chook Doolan: The Tiny Guitar

9781922244949Chook Doolan: The Newest Pet

9781922244932Chook Doolan: Rules Are Rules

Princess Betony’s father is a king and her mother the spirit of a willow tree,

but Princess Betony is supposed to live a boring, organised kind of life, like a proper princess. That doesn’t

stop her having magical, exciting adventures, or from making new

friends – and only some of them are human!

Now available in paperback with a brand new story, Princess Betony and

the Hobgoblin!

Princess Betonyby Pamela Freeman

illustrated by Tamsin Ainslie 7+ years

Walker Books Australia • Paperback • Illustrated FictionArrp $12.99 • NZrrp $14.99

9781925381023Princess Betony and the Unicorn

9781925381030Princess Betony and the Thunder Egg

9781921720260Princess Betony and the Hobgoblin

9781925381047Princess Betony and the Rule of Wishing

Mango & Bambang: Tiny Tapir Trouble

By Polly FaberIllustrated by Clara Vulliamy

When a small but mischievous tapir guest comes to stay with Mango Allsorts and Bambang

in the busy city, things soon get into a rather troublesome

tangle. Tiny Tapir Trouble is Book Three in this delightful series for

younger readers.

6+ years

Walker Books • Hardback • Illustrated FictionHB Price: Arrp $17.99 • NZrrp $19.99

9781406361438Mango & Bambang: The Not-a-Pig

9781406361483Mango & Bambang: Tiny Tapir Trouble

6+ years

Walker Books • Paperback • Illustrated FictionPB Price: Arrp $14.99 • NZrrp $16.99

9781406367140Mango & Bambang: The Not-a-Pig

9781406361476Mango & Bambang: Tapir All at Sea

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9781406365825Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

From the editorial consultant on Zoella's international bestseller Girl Online comes an

unforgettable story of friendship, self-belief and love.

12+ yearsWalker Books • Pbk • Young Adult Fiction

The Moonlight Dreamersby Siobhan Curham

A inspirational, heart-warming book about four girls trying to find their place in the world. Amber craves excitement

and adventure. Instead, she’s being bullied at school for having two dads, and life at home isn’t much better.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde, Amber realises that among the millions of people in London, there must be others who feel the same as she does; other dreamers - moonlight

dreamers. After chance encounters with Maali, Sky and Rose, Amber soon recruits the three girls to the Moonlight

Dreamers. It’s high time they started pursuing their dreams, and how better than with the support of friends?

9781606844380Arrp $15.99 • NZrrp $17.99

14+ yearsCarolrhoda Lab • Pbk • Young Adult Fiction

It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High — until a massive explosion devastated the school.

A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques.

Without a gang, you’re as good as dead. And David has no gang.

Quarantine Book 1: The Lonersby Lex Thomas

A modern-day Lord of the Flies.

9781606845400Quarantine Book 2: The SaintsQuarantine Book 3: The Burnouts

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The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series sees Timmy Failure take to the

road – with the usual hilarious consequences! Now available in paperback.

Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection

by Stephan Pastis

Timmy Failure is back in award-winning author Stephan Pastis’s fourth book in the New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates.

Shenanigans abound as Timmy Failure finds himself on a road trip with none other than notorious criminal Molly

Moskins. Travelling halfway across the country to help your mother’s boyfriend settle into his new job would be

inconvenient for any detective, let alone the founder, president and CEO of Total Failure Inc, the world’s

greatest detective agency. Timmy has a case to solve, and nothing can stand in his way.

9+ years

Walker Books • Hardback • Illustrated FictionHB Price: Arrp $17.99 • NZrrp $19.99

9781406339802Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

9781406356342Timmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done

9781406356748Timmy Failure: We Meet Again

9781406363494Timmy Failure: SanitizedFor Your Protection

9+ years

Walker Books • Paperback • Illustrated FictionPB Price: Arrp $12.99 • NZrrp $14.99

9781406347876Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

9781406360721Timmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done

9781406363715Timmy Failure: We Meet Again

9781406365764Timmy Failure: SanitizedFor Your Protection

9781406363104Arrp $14.99 • NZrrp $16.99

A stand-alone comic adventure for younger readers by sublime storyteller Vivian French,

with pictures by Marta Kissi, a talented new illustrator and animator.

9+ years

Walker Books • Pbk • Illustrated Fiction

The Adventures of Alfie Onionby Vivian French

illustrated by Marta Kissi

Alfie Onion has just set off on a great adventure ... but only to carry his brother’s luggage. It’s his elder

brother, Magnifico Onion, who’s destined to win their family a Happily Ever After. But when it turns out

Magnifico isn’t half the hero he’s cracked up to be, it falls to Alfie to save the day - with a little help from his

loyal dog, a talking horse and a couple of meddling magpies.

9781925126297Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

9+ years

Walker Books Australia • Pbk • Junior Fiction

Yongby Janeen Brian

Set in 1857 and loosely based on true events, this is the story of thirteen-year-old Yong, his father and a small group

of men from their village who journey from China to the goldfields in Ballarat. As with modern day ‘boat people’

these Chinese are desperate, exploited and vilified, and their journey treacherous. Their tax money is stolen and they

are put ashore in South Australia, rather than the promised Victoria, and are forced to walk hundreds of kilometres to Ballarat. However, despite his familyís desperate need for

money, Yong does not want to be on this journey. To those around him, he appears to be an honourable son, but in his

heart and soul, he is resentful and longs to defy his father and return home to care for his beloved grandmother. A

story of family and honour and what drives people to leave their homeland in search of something better.

9781406366846Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

9+ years

Walker Books • Pbk • Non Fiction

Learn how to write code and then build your own website, app and game using HTML,

CSS and JavaScript in this essential coding guide for kids from expert organization Young

Rewired State.

Get Coding!: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website,

app & gameby Young Rewired State

Over 6 fun missions learn the basic concepts of coding or computer programming and help Professor

Bairstone and Dr Day keep the Monk Diamond safe from dangerous jewel thieves. In bite-size chunks

learn important real-life coding skills and become a technology star of the future. Young Rewired State is a global community that aims to get kids coding and

turn them into the technology stars of the future.

9781922244888Arrp $19.99 • NZrrp$22.99

14+ years

Walker Books Australia • Pbk • Anthology

A celebration of the books that influenced some of the most acclaimed authors from Australia and the world.

The Book that Made Meedited by Judith Rudge

Inspirational. Affecting. Includes stories by fantastic authors such as Markus Zusak, Jaclyn Moriarty, Shaun

Tan, Mal Peet, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Simon French, Fiona Wood, Simmone Howell, Bernard Beckett, Ursula

Dubosarsky, Rachael Craw, Sue Lawson, Felicity Castagna, Benjamin Law, Cath Crowley, Kate Constable,

James Roy, Alison Croggon, Ted Dawe, Will Kostakis and Randa Abdel-Fattah and features black and white

cartoons by Shaun Tan! All royalties from the sale of the book will go to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. The

book will also include the ILF logo and information about the organisation. A book for book lovers!

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5+ years

Black Dog Books • Hbk • Picture Book

This is an expansive and generous Welcome to Country from a most respected Elder,

Aunty Joy Murphy, beautifully given form by Indigenous artist Lisa Kennedy.

Welcome To Countryby Joy Murphy

illustrated by Lisa Kennedy

Written by Auntie Joy Wandin Murphy, a senior Wurundjeri elder of the Kulin alliance, this is a very accessible welcome that introduces and

gives meaning and explanation within the text to the customs and symbols of Indigenous Australia.

This is what happened during Little Lunch: Rory forgot his playlunch and did something that shocked everyone, Battie freaked out because he thought he’d

ruined Grandparents Day and Melanie held a cake stall to help homeless puppies, but it didn’t really help anyone! A lot can happen in fifteen minutes.

Little Lunch By Danny Katz

Illustrated by Mitch Vane

7+ years

Black Dog Books • Paperback • Illustrated FictionHB Price: Arrp $12.99 • NZrrp $14.99

9781925126907Little Lunch: Triple the Treats

9781925381276Little Lunch: Triple Snack PackAug2016

Black Dog BooksAn imprint of Walker Books Australia.

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9781922179647Arrp $19.99 • NZrrp$21.99

14+ years

Walker Books Australia • Pbk • Young Adult Fiction

The final action-packed instalment of the Spark trilogy.

Shieldby Rachael Craw

Evie is out of options. She must comply with the Affinity Project – obey their rules, play their deadly games, give

up Jamie. And her losses keep growing. When she decides to help a small group of Shields trying to affect

change, Evie finds herself in the firing line. Counsellor Knox is intent on revealing her secrets and shackling her to the Affinity Project for life. To protect her family,

Evie must betray those closest to her. The odds of success – let alone survival – are slim.

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Stray (Book 2) 9780763671556Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp$27.99

14+ yearsCandlewick Press • Hbk • Young Adult Fiction

One brother home from war. The other desperate to save him. A gripping journey

together to the river’s end.

Great Fallsby Steve Watkins

Shane has always worshiped his big brother, Jeremy. But three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their toll, and

the easy-go-lucky brother Shane knew has been replaced by a surly drunk who carries his loaded 9mm everywhere

and lives in the basement because he can’t face life with his wife and two small children. When Jeremy shows up after Shane’s football game and offers to take him to the family

cabin overnight, Shane goes along. But as the camping trip turns into a days-long canoe trip down the Shenandoah and

Potomac Rivers, Shane realises he’s in way over his head – and has no idea how to persuade Jeremy to return home and get the help he needs before it’s too late. In a novel at

once gripping and heartbreaking, Steve Watkins offers a stark exploration of the unseen injuries left by war.

9781406365931Arrp $17.99 • NZrrp$19.99

12+ years

Walker Books • Pbk • Young Adult Fiction

Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century

America in a moving yet comedic tour de force.

The Hired Girlby Laura Amy Schlitz

Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty or art on a remote farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her

diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself – because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for

six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of – a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura

Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in

Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and

housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats and bunions.

9780763687489Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp$18.99

12+ years

Candlewick Press • Pbk • Young Adult Fiction

Steeped in Victorian atmosphere and intrigue, this diverting mystery trails a feisty heroine as she takes on a precarious secret assignment.

The Agency: A Spy in the Houseby Y. S. Lee

Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, orphan (and thief) Mary Quinn found herself at Miss Scrimshaw’s

Academy for Girls, the cover for an all-female investigative unit called the Agency. Now seventeen, Mary must put her

training to the test.

9780763687496The Agency: Rivals in the CityThe Agency: The Body at the TowerThe Agency: The Traitor in the Tunnel

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