Book Week Fun
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Early Childhood Category | Picture Book Category
Younger Readers Category | Information Books Category
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Picture Book Category
One Photo
by Ross Watkins & Liz Anelli
This is a picture book about family, the failings of memory and the strength of love.
Mechanica
by Lance Balchin
Set in the twenty-third century, the book describes how Earth could no longer support wildlife. The warnings had been ignored. Corporations continued to expose the environment to chemical and radioactive waste, and many Earth species began to disappear. By 2200, vast areas of the world had become uninhabitable and wildlife extinct. In place of the lost wildlife species, the corporations began to create Mechanica. But the Mechanica escaped their confinement, and started to develop in the wild on their own.
Home in the Rain
by Bob Graham
Francie and her mum, who is expecting a baby girl, are driving home from Grandma’s in the heavy rain. When they’re still far from home, they stop for a picnic and as the car steams up, Francie presses her little finger on the window, spelling out “Daddy” and “Mummy” and leaving one space free, ready and waiting for the name of her soon-to-be sister.
My Brother
by Dee Huxley
When a grieving brother sets out to find his lost sibling, his quest takes him on an ethereal journey across land and sea – to fantastic, floating cities, and mediaeval towns full of dark alleyways and winding staircases– to vast open grasslands and eerie, silent forests– until eventually he arrives in place of timeless beauty and light.
The Patchwork Bike
by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Illustrated by Van T, Rudd
When you live in a village at the edge of the No-Go Desert, you need to make your own fun. That’s when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe mum is still using it, maybe not) and a used flour sack. You can even make a numberplate from bark, if you want. The end result is a spectacular bike, perfect for going bumpity-bump over sandhills, past your fed-up mum and right through your mud-for-walls home.
Out
by Angela May George
Illustrated by Owen Swan
I’m called an asylum seeker; but that’s not my name …
A little girl flees her homeland, making a long and treacherous boat journey with her mother to seek asylum in Australia. Starting a new life is challenging, but they work hard to create a new home.