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Picture Book Category
About the books in the Picture Book Category 2023
Dirt by Sea by Michael Wagner. Illustrated by Tom Jellett. A Graphic Novel.
Daisy lives in inland Australia with her dad and her grandparents. It’s home, and she loves the red dirt land around her but when her dad realises that she’s never seen the beach and thinks the Australian anthem is about a country ‘dirt by sea’, he sets off to show her the ocean in a once-in-a-lifetime father-daughter trip along the Australian coast, inspired by the first holiday he took with Daisy's mum. Along the way they will learn about Australia and much, much more.
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Read 5 pages | Do a jigsaw | For Teachers
Step inside the dollhouse-like interior of Farmhouse and relish the daily life of the family that lives there, rendered in impeccable, thrilling detail. Based on a real family and an actual farmhouse where Sophie salvaged facts and artefacts for the making of this spectacular work, page after page bursts with luminous detail and joy.
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Enjoy the story | Read 4 pages. Making Farmhouse
Sophie Blackall talks about Farmhouse | For Teachers | Do a jigsaw
Frank’s Red Hat by Sean E Avery
A story about never giving up on your talents, because even though what you do may not be appreciated right now, it may be in time. Possibly by someone you’d least expect.
Frank is a penguin with ideas. Mostly terrible ones. That’s why his fellow penguins are nervous when he shows them his strange new creation. Something they’d never seen or expected to see in their cold and colourless Antarctic world — a red hat.
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A sneak peak | Make a penguin mask | Do a jigsaw
Sean E Avery on his book | For Teachers 1 | For Teachers 2
For Ms Broome & Mrs X: Sean E. Avery creates a snowy landscape.
My Strange Shrinking Parents byZeno Sworder
Recommended for Upper Primary students.
I goes without saying that all children believe their parents to be strange.
Mine were unusual for a different reason…
One boy’s parents travel from far-off lands to improve their son’s life. What happens next is unexpected. What does it mean when your parents are different? What shape does love take? What happens when your parents sacrifice a part of themselves for you?
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Our Dreaming Illustrator Dub Leffler. Text Kirli Saunders
Goodjagah, little one,
walk with me …
I want to tell you our Dreaming
as the Elders told it to me.
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Teaser | Enjoy the story | Do a jigsaw | For Teachers
Paradise Sands: a story of enchantment by Levi Pinfold
Recommended for Upper Primary students,
Washed clean in his pool, we fall under his rule
Away from what is, for we are now his.
When a young girl and her brothers step into the ghostly Paradise Sands hotel, they fall under the rule of the mysterious Teller. She makes a deal with him to free them all from his haunting paradise. Can she hold up her side of the bargain?
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Teaser | About the book | Do a jigsaw | For Teachers