Bologna Rights Guide 2019 CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT CONTENTS

PICTURE BOOKS

MIDDLE GRADE & JUNIOR

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Once upon a time, there were three little white who Sebastian trots off BUMBLE were... Superheroes of the Garden. When disaster strikes, fur SEBASTIAN at a slow steady speed BUNNIES: will fly! AND THE with a bundle of books THE POND Rights Held: World (excl. China) English; Translation – all SPECIAL he’d love someone to read languages STACK OF Where can you find the best spot to hear a story when you’re Graeme’s previous titles, including , The Eleventh STORIES the smallest and the slowest one in a big family? Sebastian AGES: 3+ Hour, The Waterhole and others, have been licensed in many knows. Brand-new series from territories and languages around the world. KELLY HIBBERT From talented newcomer Kelly Hibbert and award-winning the creator of the & SUE illustrator Sue deGennaro comes the perfect book that internationally acclaimed DEGENNARO celebrates the joy of reading and family. picture book, Animalia. AGES: 4+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages October 2018 | 24pp 220x220mm | Hardback Storytime is always ISBN 9781460753941 special, but even more so when Mum is reading the stack of stories that Sebastian has collected. July 2018 | 32pp ALSO IN THE 224x218mm | Hardback ISBN 9781460753460 BUMBLEBUNNIES SERIES:

THE HOLE If you were walking through the woods THE BUM This is a book for anyone who has a bum or knows someone and a hole you came upon, with a bum. It’s a celebration of my bum and your bum and BOOK the whole world’s bum. KERRY BROWN would you stop and take a look? & LUCIA From bestselling author Kate Mayes and award-winning Or simply carry on? KATE MAYES & MASCIULLO illustrator Andrew Joyner comes The Bum Book, the only One by one, a group of animals come upon a strange black ANDREW book about bums you’ll ever need. JOYNER AGES: 3+ hole in the middle of the woods. What is lurking down A hilarious picture book which celebrates bottoms of all below? And is that its tummy rumbling? Read on to find Bestselling Australian AGES: 2+ types, shapes and sizes! out… picture book creators Kerry Brown and Lucia A mysterious, thrilling and funny new adventure. The cheekiest book of the Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Masciullo join forces year! Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages to bring us a brilliant November 2017 | 32pp new rhyming adventure, 244x244mm | Hardback perfect for fans of The ISBN 9780733332197 Gruffalo. May 2018 | 32pp 297x210mm | Hardback ISBN 9780733335235 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

DID YOU For the Grown Ups: THE PIRATE Pirate Pete had to pee. As he sailed across the ocean… OK. Two things you need to know. The toilet is broken onboard Captain Bones’ ship and Pirate TAKE THE Firstly, your favourite thing in the whole world is the letter B. WHO HAD Pete needs to pee! B FROM MY And secondly, you’re about to sneeze and all the Bs are going to TO PEE It’s a race back to town across a vast amount of water. be blown out of the book. _OOK? TIM MILLER But with all the splashing, dripping and swirling, will Pete be So until you can get your favourite letter back, you’re about to & MATT able to hang on? BECK sound really, really silly... And the kids will love it! STANTON STANTON Beck Stanton is a mother, primary school teacher and the Tim Miller and Matt Stanton are the bestselling co-creators of the picture books There Is a Monster Under My Bed Who & MATT creative director/owner of mybabymoments.com.au. She has AGES: 2+ STANTON worked extensively with children throughout her teaching Farts, The Pirate Who Had To Pee, There Is a Monster Under career and in roles that include before-and-after school care November 2013 | 32pp My Christmas Tree Who Farts and Dinosaur Dump. 244x244mm | Hardback AGES: 4+ centre director, a nanny and youth and children’s worker. With his wife, primary school teacher Beck Stanton, Matt ISBN 9780733332944 From the brilliant brains Matt Stanton is the co-creator of the bestselling Fart Monster also publishes the critically acclaimed This Is a Balland Did behind This is a Ball comes picture book series and has sold more than 125,000 copies of his books. You Take the B from My _ook? a new giggle inducing They live by the beach in Sydney with their daughter Bonnie and son Boston. bestseller! Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: UK (Harper 360), US (Harper 360), April 2016 | 32pp Rights Licensed in series: German (Klett Kinderbuch), US (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), Spanish (Ediciones Obelisco) 267x192mm | Hardback Slovenian (MIS), Dutch (Baeckens Books) ISBN 9780733334832 ALSO IN THERE IS A Ever wondered what could remove that smile from the Mona THE SERIES: Lisa’s face? MONSTER ON What could force the Buckingham Palace guards to run for MY HOLIDAY their lives? WHO FARTS What mighty gust of wind could finally make the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall? TIM MILLER & MATT STANTON All will be revealed in There is a Monster on my Holiday Who Farts... AGES: 2−5 For the Grown-Ups: Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages WAIT! The Fart Monster is back! ‘Wait! Just wait!’ And he’s gone global! Rights Licenced in series: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360) BECK & MATT You find yourself saying this all the time, right? Get your passports ready, STANTON we’re about to go around ALSO IN THE Well, we’re sorry to say, but you’re gonna hate this book! the world in 80 farts. SERIES: AGES: 4+ This book is going to make you wait too. Once you and the kids start reading it, you can’t do anything else until it’s finished. October 2016 | 32pp | New from the brilliant 244 x 244mm | Hardback | brains behind You’ll just have to … wait. ISBN 9780733334658 The Books That Drive Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Kids Crazy series. Rights Licensed (previous titles): UK and US (Little, Brown April 2018 | 32pp Books for Young Readers), German (Keltt Kinderbuch), Straight from the prehistoric era comes an ex-STINK-tion 265x192mm | Hardback Slovenian (MIS d.o.o.), Dutch (Baeckens Books) DINOSAUR story like no other! ISBN 9780733337970 DUMP Life’s hard when there’s only one toilet and all the dinos need TIM MILLER to go! There’s a dumping pterodactyl, a plopping stegosaurus & MATT and a T-rex who can’t reach to wipe... STANTON But when it’s finally Mike’s turn, could one tiny bowel movement end in disaster? AGES: 2+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages October 2015 | 32pp | 244 x 244mm | Hardback | Rights Licenced: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360), ISBN 9780733334634 (Harper360) PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

Every night when dinner was done, Rollo would cry, “I don’t Ruby and her grandmother love to travel and now they are in I DON’T want to go to bed!’ RUBY RED London, the home of red buses, red telephone boxes and red letter boxes. WANT TO The sequel to the very funny picture book, I Don’t Want to SHOES GOES GO TO BED Eat My Dinner, just when Rollo’s parents think they’ve got TO LONDON No wonder Ruby’s red shoes feel especially at home in this the food thing sorted, Rollo announces he doesn’t want to go wonderful city! DAVID to bed... KATE KNAPP Illustrator and artist Kate Knapp graduated from the CORNISH From talented author-illustrator David (D.M.) Cornish, AGES: 4-8 Queensland College of Art in 1990 and started her comes the perfect bedtime story for sleep-deprived parents. business, Twigseeds, in the mid-1990s. Twigweeds is AGES: 3+ The third book in the famous for its delightful characters and Kate produces art The perfect book to David wrote and illustrated the very funny I Don’t Want best-selling Ruby Red prints, cards, stationery and books. help bring humour to to Eat My Dinner and I Don’t Want to Clean My Teeth and Shoes series. Emu’s Halloween what can often be a real illustrated by Anne Mangan. December 2016 | 48pp | 230 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages battleground. x 163mm | Hardback | ISBN Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: Simplified Chinese (Love Reading Books), 9780732297626 September 2016 | 32pp | Korean (Goraebook Library), UK (Macmillan), Ukrainian 250 x 250mm | Hardback | (Vivat), US (Doubleday, PRH US), Spanish, Catalan ISBN 9781460750582 (Edelvives), Italian (HarperCollins Italia)

I DON’T Every morning and every evening, Rollo would cry, ‘I don’t want to clean my teeth!’ WANT TO ALSO IN THE RUBY RED SHOES SERIES: Rollo’s family are on track with mealtimes and going to bed, CLEAN MY but now Rollo doesn’t want to clean his teeth... TEETH From talented author-illustrator David (D.M.) Cornish comes the perfect book for parents who might need to brush DAVID up on their children’s teeth cleaning. CORNISH Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages AGES: 3+ Rights Licensed (previous titles): David’s international best The final title about selling Monster Blood Tattoo series has been published in Rollo, who didn’t want many territories and languages around the world. to eat his dinner or go to bed – and now he doesn’t want to clean his teeth.

June 2018 | 32pp | 250x250mm | Hardback | ISBN 9781460754269 ALSO IN THE SERIES: PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

The Prime Minister’s job is to make our country as good as it For too long have been called bears. IF I WAS can be. But every Prime Minister Australia has ever had has BARE But this koala is out to prove to the world that he is BARE! PRIME been a grown-up! JACKIE MINISTER What if the grown-ups weren’t in charge? What would kids FRENCH & And that never, ever, ever can a koala be called a bear ... do if they ran the country? MATT SHANKS From the internationally renowned author of the bestselling Diary BECK FEINER & We could have submarines to scoop garbage out of the sea … of a Wombat comes a hilariously funny picture book that Jackie ROBIN FEINER or teach koalas how to do karate... and hang giant rainbows AGES: 4+ French has created with talented new illustrator Matt Shanks. in the sky to make everyone happy. AGES: 4+ For too long koalas have Jackie French is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages been called ‘bears’. Jackie Her books have been translated into many languages, and What would you do if French and Matt Shanks sold over 4 million copies internationally. you were the leader are out to right this Matt was born in Sydney, Australia and now resides in of the country? wrong. Melbourne. Sandwiched between the bush and beach, the inspiration for his short stories comes from a love of his July 2018 | 32pp | October 2017 | 32pp | 285x230mm | Hardback | 244x244 mm | Hardback | unique country. ISBN 9780733338953 ISBN 9781460751619 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages

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‘Millie trundles through the trees, Samantha Duck is getting ready for Christmas and her friend MILLIE A VERY Sebastian thinks she’s silly. After all, he says, Christmas isn’t Wildflowers bending in the breeze. LOVES QUACKY for animals. If there’s just a chance of ants, JACKIE CHRISTMAS But Samantha knows that Christmas is for everyone and FRENCH & Millie’s nose will do its dance.’ sets out to make sure that all the animals have a very quacky FRANCES Christmas (and a tortoise new year). A joyous tale of giving But just why does Millie the echidna adore ants? SUE WATTS & and sharing from two award-winning Australian creators. DEGENNARO Find out in this glorious new picture book from award-winning author and Children’s Laureate Jackie French, ANN JAMES Frances Watts was born in Switzerland and grew up in AGES: 4+ and talented illustrator Sue deGennaro. AGES: 2–5 Australia. Her bestselling picture books include Goodnight Mice!, Kisses for Daddy, and Parsley ’s Book about Books. From the talented duo Jackie French is an award-winning writer, wombat negotiator and was the The only Christmas who created The Hairy- Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-2015 and the 2015 Senior Australian quacker you’ll need this Over 35 years, Ann James has collaborated with many Nosed Wombats Find a New of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of Australia for holiday season! authors, illustrating picture books that almost always feature Home. her contribution to children’s literature and her advocacy for youth literacy. animals! Ann’s playful approach to illustrating is evident in November 2017 | 32pp | her choice of media and techniques. April 2017 | 32pp | Sue deGennaro studied film at university, and after focussing on drawing at 290x215 mm | Hardback | 250x210 mm | Hardback | art school she became an aerialist and performance artist. Sue is the illustrator ISBN 9780733329623 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages ISBN 9781460751787 of The Tomorrow Book and The Hairy Nosed Wombats Find a New Home. Sue lives in Melbourne. Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360), North America (Doubleday PRH US) Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

It’s the first day of school and Oscar is trying hard to be brave. In the jungle there are jaguars, monkeys and parrots aplenty, MY FRIEND Oscar’s mum feels sure he will make lots of friends, but Oscar GWENDOLYN! but there are no . None at all. Because penguins do ERNEST isn’t so sure, particularly when Ernest seems so mean and scary. JULIETTE not live in the jungle, except for... GWENDOLYN! EMMA ALLEN But is he really? MACIVER & A story about friendship, adventure and finding your home. Juliette MacIver is a former musician who lives in Wellington, & HANNAH From talented picture book creators, award winning Emma TERRI ROSE . Her previous picture books include Allen and talented new illustrator Hannah Sommerville, BAYNTON SOMMERVILLE Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam (shortlisted for the comes a book about the joy of making friends. AGES: 2−5 AGES: 3+ NZ Post Children’s Book Awards) and Queen Alice’s Palaces. Emma Allen’s debut book The Terrible Suitcase (Scholastic) A in the Terri Rose Baynton lives in the beautiful seaside town of It’s the first day of school won the 2013 CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood JUNGLE? Waihi Beach, New Zealand, amongst good friends, warm and Ernest seems so and was shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Literary Awards. waves and a menagerie of animals. She is a scriptwriter mean and scary. But is he Emma worked as a paediatric speech language therapist for November 2016 | 32pp | and storyliner for children’s television, working with Weta really? many years and is now studying for a PhD in Creative Writing. 280x220mm | Hardback | Productions on Jane and the Dragon and The Wotwots, Emma lives in Canberra. ISBN 9780733335174 February 2016 | 32pp | alongside her father, Wotwots creator Martin Baynton. 244 x 244mm | Hardback Hannah Sommerville is an emerging children’s book illustrator ISBN 9781460750537 whose first book was Chasing Shadows by Corinne Fenton Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages (Ford Street Publishing, 2013). Hannah lives in Milton, NSW. Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licenced: UK, US and Canada (Harper360)

The old café on the corner is coming down to make way for WHATCHA something new. Little Davey Durak is gathering scrap − a short piece of wood here, a long piece there. But what’s Abby was very kissable. Every night she would be kissed. BUILDING? Davey building? Bruce the Builder wants to know, but Davey ALL MY Once on the end of her nose. Twice on her forehead. And ANDREW won’t tell... KISSES countless times all over the bottom of her feet… DADDO & Stephen Michael King’s wonderful use of collage with the Abby adores her kisses so much that she keeps them all safe KERRY BROWN STEPHEN illustration, beautifully reflects the environmental and in a special bucket. They’re too precious to pass around at & JEDDA MICHAEL KING sustainable themes in the book. A charming story with an Show and Tell. And too fragile to send to Grandma for her important message at its heart. ROBAARD birthday. But what happens to kisses when they’re not shared AGES: 3+ ‘A fantastic new offering from two remarkable talents in AGES: 2+ Bestselling author Andrew Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages the world of picture books, Andrew Daddo and Stephen Daddo teams up with A picture book that would Michael King. Kids have a natural fascination with how Rights Licensed: Complex Chinese (Heliopolis Culture award-winning illustrator melt even the hardest things are made. They love seeing tools and machines Group Co. Ltd.), Korean (Neungyule Education Inc.) US Stephen Michael King to heart... digging, cutting, banging and creating. And most of all, (Harper360), UK (Harper 360) bring you a very special they dream about using those tools themselves to build This irresistibly cute story new picture book is about a little pig who something amazing.’ − Sarah Wallace, Kid’s Book Review receives too many kisses June 2017 | 32pp | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages – and what she decides to 230x280mm | Hardback | Rights Licensed: Korean (Hansol Education) do with the overflow! ISBN 9780733334153 June 2014 | 32pp | 244 x 244mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733330711 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

WHEN I ‘Alright class, today’s question is, when I grow up I want to be WHERE DOES When it needs to rest a bird naps in a nest. a – what?’ But where does a go to bed? GROW UP A GIRAFFE When the teacher asks her class what they want to be the Author-illustrator Craig MacLean follows up his delightful ANDREW answers range from the hilarious to the baffling to the GO TO BED? debut What Noise Comes from a Giraffe? with a book that is beautiful. But what’s the best thing to be? sure to become a favourite at bedtime. DADDO & CRAIG JONATHAN Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages MACLEAN Perfect for the curious preschooler – now that we know BENTLEY what kind of noise giraffes make, let’s find out where they Rights Licensed: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360), AGES:2+ go to sleep. AGES: 4+ Canada (Harper360) The bedtime book sequel Rights Held: World English; Translation - all languages What do you want to be to the delightful What Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) when you grow up? Noise Comes from a The answers are sure Giraffe? to entertain and amuse parents and kids alike! May 2018 | 32pp | 244x244mm | Hardback | December 2015 | 32pp | ISBN 9781460752272 244 x 244mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733333415

FIRST DAY Are you ready? It’ll be fun. You’ll meet new friends. New BFFs! ANDREW DADDO & You might have to be a bit brave… JONATHAN It’s the first day at school. But who is the most nervous about BENTLEY the big day?

AGES: 4+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360), US (Harper360) A delightful picture book about starting school, ‘We all know it’s true, that a cow says, ‘Moo!’ with a clever twist all WHAT NOISE But what noise comes from a giraffe?’ parents will relate to! ALSO IN COMES December 2013 | 32pp | THE SERIES: FROM A From talented debut author illustrator Craig MacLean comes 244 x 244mm | Hardback | a fresh and funny picture book that is sure to delight young ISBN 9780733331206 GIRAFFE? children as they discover just what noise a giraffe makes... CRAIG Craig MacLean is a graphic designer/art director turned MACLEAN filmmaker. He owns a production company called Mr Smith that specializes in TV commercials and online AGES: 2+ content. Craig lives in Melbourne. From the team who created the award-winning Good Night, CHEEKY May 2016 | 32pp | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Me comes this captivating picture book. Emma Quay’s 244x244mm | Hardback | MONKEY delightful and warm illustrations of a family moving through ISBN 9781460752234 Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) their day bring to life all the funny and silly names we call EMMA QUAY our children: cheeky monkey, lucky duck, sweet pea, silly AGES: 3-5 billy and more. Simply delightful. Re-release of the bestselling, award- Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages winning children’s Rights Licensed: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360) picture book. December 2010 | 32pp | 244x244 mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780733328398 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

On 11 November 1918, after four years of fighting, the From the precious early days of a baby’s life to those first ARMISTICE Allied powers signed an agreement with Germany to end the HELLO tentative steps, so much changes over a year... Great War and to begin peace negotiations. The armistice, RUTH STARKE LITTLE The perfect book for new bubs and new parents, Alison as it was known, took effect on of the & DAVID Lester’s Hello Little Babies rejoices in all those wonderful eleventh day of the eleventh month. But it would take more BABIES KENNETT moments in the first year of a baby’s life. than seven months before peace would finally be declared at ALISON LESTER AGES: 10+ Versailles on 28 June 1919. The Great War was over. But the A warm and tender picture book for families everywhere. world as it had been known was changed forever. AGES: 0-2 Alison Lester is one of Australia’s most popular author An original book on a In this companion to the award-winning My Gallipoli, illustrators. She has written and illustrated many picture tumultuous time in From the bestselling many voices will recall the day the Great War ended and the books for children, including the multi-award-winning, world history. author of Kissed by the months that followed before peace rang out around the world. Moon, Noni the Pony and bestselling Are We There Yet? She grew up on a farm overlooking the sea and first rode a horse as a baby in her March 2018 | 44pp | Armistice will bring these stories to life and is published to commemorate the 100th Are We There Yet? comes father’s arms. She still lives in country Victoria and rides her 260x270mm | Hardback | anniversary since the fighting stopped. a book to be cherished ISBN 9781921504914 by children and parents horse, Woollyfoot, whenever she can. Ruth Starke is one of South Australia’s most successful children’s writers, with everywhere. Alison’s work has been published in many languages, and over 20 titles published since she began writing in 1992. Many of them have won sold in many territories internationally. or been shortlisted for national awards. December 2016 | 24pp | 235x275mm | Hardback | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages ISBN 9780733330414 Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360)

Clarrie is a farmer who loves his chickens and his dog, Bert. When a gentle creature sets out to find a lost brother, the CLARRIE’S Clarrie also gets his worms, no! he means his words, mixed up. MY BROTHER quest follows an ethereal journey across lands and seas to DEE, TIFFANY & strange, beautiful and faraway places. PIG DAY OUT So when Clarrie and Bert head out in his jar, whoops, he OLIVER HUXLEY JEN STORER means car, it turns out to be a day filled with fun and Dee Huxley has been illustrating picture books for many surprises. years and is now one of the most popular and well-known & SUE AGES: 8+ illustrators in Australia. Dee studied design and craft at Young children will love seeing how Clarrie mixes up his DEGENNARO the National Art School, East Sydney. After graduating words – and will enjoy correcting them, as well! A metaphorical picture AGES: 3+ book story for older she taught visual arts in secondary schools in Australia Jen Storer is the author of the bestselling and very children that looks at loss and London, and later worked as a graphic designer for A very funny picture book popular Truly Tan series. Her fantasy novel Tensy Farlow and grief from a sibling’s television. A freelance illustrator since 1976, her work is about farmer Clarrie who and the Home for Mislaid Children was shortlisted for the perspective. displayed in galleries nationally and internationally. Three of gets his worms − no, his 2011 CBCA Book of the Year. Jen is also the author of The her books, Mr. Nick’s Knitting (1989), Rain Dance (2001), words! − mixed up. Fourteenth Summer of Angus Jack, and she lives April 2016 | 32pp | and You and Me Our Place (2008) were short-listed for the in Melbourne. 280x230mm | Hardback | Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the March 2016 | 32pp | ISBN 9781921504853 297 x 210mm | Hardback | Sue deGennaro studied film at university, and after focussing Year Award. ISBN 9780733334443 on drawing at art school she became an aerialist and performance artist. Sue is the illustrator Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages of The Tomorrow Book. Rights Licensed: US and Canada (Harper360) Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: US and Canada (Harper360) PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

A delightful and entertaining peek into the life of one very busy She sleeps. She eats. She scratches – and finds a hole. DIARY OF A wombat! WOMBAT When Mothball discovers a new hole, it unexpectedly leads WOMBAT Monday Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate. GOES TO her to the local school. The children learn that wombats JACKIE Scratched. Night: Ate. SCHOOL love carrots and grass, while Mothball learns that lunch boxes contain very few carrots, that sports sheds can be a FRENCH A typical day. Don’t be fooled. This wombat leads a very busy JACKIE good place to have a nap, and that when you’re brown and and demanding life. She wrestles unknown creatures, runs & BRUCE FRENCH round, it’s not a good idea to get too close to a ball... WHATLEY her own digging business, and most difficult of all – trains her . She teaches them when she would like carrots, when she would like oats and when & BRUCE WHATLEY Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages AGES: 3+ she would like both at the same time. But these humans are slow learners. Rights Licensed: German (Gerstenberg Buchverlag), Honour Book 2003 Find out how one wombat – between scratching, sleeping and eating – AGES: 3+ Vietnamese (Vietnamese Women’s Publishing House) CBCA Book of the Year manages to fit the difficult job of training humans into her busy schedule. She eats. She sleeps. She Awards. Winner of the scratches. She goes to Booksellers Choice Award, Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages school... Australian Booksellers Rights Licensed: UK (HarperCollins), US (Clarion Books), Simplified Chinese Association. (King-in Culture Co. Ltd. ), French (Albin Michel), German (Gerstenberg Buchverlag), October 2013 | 32pp | 210 x285 mm | Hardback | October 2002 | 32pp | Brazilian Portuguese (Editora Fundamento), Spanish (Ediciones Castillo), ISBN 9780732295493 293 x 217mm | Various Korean (Dongsim), Canada (Cengage Learning), Vietnamese (Vietnamese Women’s Publishing House)

He sleeps. He eats. He gets bored. He creates havoc Yes, Mothball has become an athlete, albeit a little BABY wherever he goes! WOMBAT accidentally. In her never-ending quest for carrots Wombat stumbles upon the children at the local school competing WOMBAT’S He’s Mothball’s baby – and he’s even cuter, naughtier and WINS in the school sports. And despite her somewhat limiting more determined than his mum. Baby Wombat’s Week is an WEEK JACKIE FRENCH physique and lack of training, Mothball manages to go home irresistible picture book by the award-winning duo behind & BRUCE with a gold medal. JACKIE the international bestseller Diary of a Wombat. FRENCH WHATLEY Why puff and pant when you can eat, sleep and scratch? Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages & BRUCE AGES: 3+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages WHATLEY Rights Licensed: UK (HarperCollins), US (Clarion Books), Forget Rio and the French (Albin Michel), German (Gerstenberg Buchverlag) Rights Licensed: German (Gerstenberg Buchverlag) AGES: 3+ Olympic Games, for us it will be about Shortlisted in the 2013 Wombat… winning. YABBA Awards October 2015 | 32pp | October 2009 | 32pp | 210mm x 285mm | 216 x 293mm | Various Hardback | ISBN 9780732299576

It’s Christmas! And it’s Christmas for Mothball the Wombat, She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. CHRISTMAS too. GRANDMA And like all grandmas, she thinks her grandson is the best WOMBAT She eats, she sleeps, she scratches, but on Christmas Eve… WOMBAT behaved baby ever. JACKIE Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages JACKIE But this baby wombat has other ideas... FRENCH FRENCH Created by author Jackie French and illustrator Bruce & BRUCE Rights Licensed: UK (HarperCollins), US (Clarion Books), French (Ane Baté ), German (Gerstenberg Buchverlag), Whatley, this delightfully funny book celebrates the love WHATLEY & BRUCE and joy that being a grandma can bring. Vietnamese (Vietnamese Women’s Publishing House) WHATLEY AGES: 3+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages AGES: 3+ It’s Christmas – from a Rights Licensed: German (Gerstenberg Buchverlag) wombat’s point of view. The latest in the Wombat series, this time about October 2011 | 32pp | more senior members of 293 x 217mm | Hardback | the species... ISBN 9780732291716 August 2013 | 272pp 198x128mm | Paperback ISBN 9780732296179

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Max is a dog who lives life to the full, which is why his So many different places − special things to do... NOMAX! master is so often calling out to him – ‘No Max!’ THE ABC This charming picture book celebrates the fun and excitement SHANNON From the author of Was Not Me, comes another very funny BOOK OF of places we can visit, both close to home and far away. The HORSFALL book about life – as Max the dog sees it. PLACES TO simple, engaging text explores fascinating places such as the library, the zoo, the lighthouse and many more. AGES: 3+ Shannon Horsfall is a graphic designer and illustrator whose G O illustration work for many corporate, not for profit and arts An adventurous book that is a delightful introduction to the If this dog is always called organization has won AGDA and BAD awards. HELEN world beyond our backyard. ‘NoMax!’ by Dad, why MARTIN, does his bowl have a Shannon lives in Bongaree, Queensland. JUDITH Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages different name on it? Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages SIMPSON & June 2017 | 32pp | CHERYL ORSINI Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360), Korean (KIZM 297x210 mm | Hardback | Education Group), Korean (Awesome World) ISBN 9781460753927 AGES: 2-6 From the bestselling creators of The ABC Book of Seasons comes a delightful introduction to the world around us. February 2017 | 32pp | 225x285mm | Hardback | ALSO IN THE SERIES: ISBN 9780733334283

WAS NOT ‘I have a naughty twin brother who only I see, DADDY ‘Daddy up?’ ME! A cheeky twin brother. His name is Not Me’. CUDDLE It’s early in the morning and one little rabbit is wide awake... From talented debut author illustrator Shannon Horsfall, From bestselling author Kate Mayes and award-winning SHANNON comes a playful, funny and charming book about a young KATE MAYES illustrator Sara Acton comes this gorgeous tale of an early HORSFALL boy who escapes getting into trouble with his mother by & SARA riser who just wants to play! A book to be loved and treasured declaring, ‘No, was Not Me.’ ACTON by children and fathers everywhere. AGES: 3+ A very funny book about Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages AGES: 2+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: US (Amicus Books/Creative Company), a cheeky twin brother, An undeniably adorable German (Gerstenberg), Japanese (Gakken) ‘Not Me’. Sure to delight new picture book for pre-schoolers – and their dads everywhere, from exasperated parents! bestselling author Kate July 2016 | 32pp | Mayes and award-winning 297x210mm | Hardback | illustrator Sara Acton. ISBN 9781460752463 August 2015 | 32pp | 225 x 225mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780733334054

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There’s a fairy ring at the bottom of the garden, and the fairy ‘It was very quiet in Stanley’s house. There were no brothers THE FAIRY dancers are wishing hard for dancing days. Join Mia, Emma STANLEY or sisters, no dads or grannies, not even a , a budgie or a DANCERS 2: and Grace in their most magical dancing adventures ever! COLIN goldfish.’ DANCING The stories will once again appeal to every ballet-loving THOMPSON Stanley lives with his , Gerald, and Gerald’s mum. Life little girl. DAYS AGES: 2-5 is peaceful, but sometimes Stanley feels quite lonely... Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages But then one day another dog steals his favourite red rubber NATALIE JANE From the creator of Fearless comes a new ball at his park, and sets in motion a chain of events that will PRIOR & canine tale. change Stanley’s life forever. CHERYL ORSINI Colin Thompson is an internationally renowned author March 2016 | 32pp | and illustrator who has won many awards for his words AGES: 4+ 270x240mm | Hardback | and pictures. In 2007, his book DUST was awarded ISBN 9780733332852 Join Mia, Emma and Honour Book in the Children’s Book Council Awards, Grace in their most and his 2009 picture book FEARLESS was a CBCA magical dancing shortlisted title and a kids’ choice award winner. adventures ever! Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages September 2017 | 48pp | Rights Licensed: UK (Harper360), US (Harper360) 230x163 mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733335648

Every Saturday, with a hop, a skip and a magical twirl, Mia, THE FAIRY Emma and Grace turn into... fairy dancers! DANCERS Enter their enchanted world of fun, friendship, fairy wings NATALIE and dancing. JANE PRIOR & Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages CHERYL ORSINI AGES: 4+

For every little girl who In Fearless in Love, Fearless met Primrose, and it was love at loves to dance, comes FEARLESS first sight… this lavishly illustrated SONS AND storybook from award Now Fearless and Primrose have puppies. While most of the

winning author Natalie DAUGHTER litter go to good families, Fearless Jnr stays home with Mum and Dad. Jane Prior and much-loved COLIN illustrator Cheryl Orsini. THOMPSON But unlike his dad, Fearless Jnr isn’t afraid of anything… until he gets in over his head. It’s Fearless to the rescue! But can a October 2015 | 48pp | & SARAH 230 x 163mm | Hardback | bulldog who’s scared of everything save his son? DAVIS

ISBN 9780733333576 HC_ABC_TheFairyDancers_001-032.indd 26 20/01/15 3:21 PM HC_ABC_TheFairyDancers_001-032.indd 30 21/01/15 10:55 AM HC_ABC_TheFairyDancers_001-032.indd 45 20/01/15 3:22 PM HC_ABC_TheFairyDancers_001-032.indd 13 20/01/15 3:21 PM Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages AGES: 4+ Rights Licensed in series: Chinese - Complex (Youth Culture The Tales of Mrs Mancini tells the story of a cat who, together Awards for Fearless: THE TALES with her human friend, Filippina, runs a cake shop full of Enterprise), Turkish (Arkadas), UK (Harper360), US Winner, CBCA Junior (Harper360) OF MRS delectable treats. Alongside her flair for flan, Mrs Mancini Judges Children’s Choice MANCINI also has a special ability to bring lonely children together. Award, Picture Book, A collection of three fully-illustrated stories celebrating 2010; Winner, KOALA NATALIE friands and friendship. Award, Picture Book, ALSO IN JANE PRIOR & 2010; Winner, YABBA THE SERIES: CHERYL ORSINI Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Award, Picture Book, 2010; Winner, COOL AGES: 4+ Award, Picture Book, A gorgeous new illustrated 2010; Winner, KROC storybook from the Award, Picture Book, 2010 bestselling creators of February 2015 | 32pp | The Fairy Dancers. 210 x 297mm | Hardback | November 2016 | 48pp | ISBN 9780733330872 265x190 mm | ISBN 9780733335655 PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

Pip loves to sing, while Pop won’t stop snoring. How are Scarlett loved to dance, and her house was always filled with PEAS AND they ever going to work out how to live together? SCARLETT, rhythm. QUIET From award-winning author Gabrielle Tozer and STARLET Her parents would clap along, and Little Jazzy Jo-Jo’s paws would GABRIELLE illustrator Sue deGennaro comes the perfect book about EMMA QUAY tap-tap-tap in time. friendship and learning how to get along. TOZER & SUE AGES: 2+ But when Scarlett’s dreams of dancing on a real stage finally come DEGENNARO Gabrielle Tozer is a senior editor, journalist and true, will she find her own rhythm? copywriter who has edited, sub-edited and written May 2015 | 32pp | Will she shine like a star? AGES: 4+ for several magazines, newspapers and anthologies 244 x 244mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733331589 Two very different peas throughout the past decade. Gabrielle also writes YA Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages in one small peapod... fiction and her debut novel, The Intern, won the 2015 Rights Licenced: US (Harper360) no wonder Pip and Pop Gold Inky Award. The sequel, Faking it, was published have to find a way to live in the same year. Gabrielle lives in Sydney, NSW. together happily. Sue deGennaro studied film at university, and after focussing on drawing at art school she became an aerialist and performance artist. Sue is the illustrator of The Tomorrow Book. July 2017 | 32pp | 265x192 mm | Hardback | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages SHRIEKING You know, the smallest person can make the most noise. Meet ISBN 9781460752395 my sister, Violet! Violet shouts the loudest, but that doesn’t make VIOLET her the star. EMMA QUAY A warm and funny peek at family life from award-winning author-illustrator Emma Quay. AGES: 2+ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages June 2016 | 32pp | 230x252 mm | Paperback | Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) ISBN 9780733335075

NOT A Bird had been flying for such a long time. Sometimes everything DANNY DA Danny da Vinci and his best friend Mick Angelo looked the same all over. Nothing different. Nothing at all. are adventurers – artistic adventurers – who share a CLOUD IN Apart from the odd cloud... A beautiful picture book about how VINCI AND passion for painting and sculpture. THE SKY finding a friend can change the shape of a day. THE SECRET Every year the Duke of Milan holds an art exhibition, and this year the Duke has asked Danny’s Uncle Leo EMMA QUAY Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages OF THE to paint his portrait. Danny and Mick want to enter AGES: 3+ Rights Licenced: US (Harper360), Korean (Kookminbooks), MONA LISA something in the exhibition too, something special. UK (Harper 360) Danny’s sister Lisa has an idea, but why should they June 2014 | 32pp | BRUCE listen to her? She’s such a moaner! 297x210 mm | Paperback | WHATLEY & ISBN 9780733332678 ROSIE SMITH Husband and wife team Bruce and Rosie have co-authored many titles, including The Ugliest Dog in the Worldand Looking for Crabs. Both award-winning titles are still in AGES: 4+ print. Many of Bruce and Rosie’s early books were based on their family and often featured An artistic adventure their children, Ben and Ellyn – and their unusually ugly dogs! The Secret that celebrates the of the Mona Lisa was inspired by a love for and the genius of Leonardo da Vinci. One, two Rudie Nudie, Rudie Nudie in the bath...’ Emma extraordinary life of RUDIE Quay captures all the joy and energy of childhood in this Leonardo da Vinci from Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages NUDIE irresistible rhyming tale. With its charming illustrations and talented duo Rosie Smith Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) lively text, Rudie Nudie is destined to become an instant and Bruce Whatley. EMMA QUAY family favourite! Winner of the Australian Book Industry August 2017 | 32pp | AGES: 2+ Awards 2012. 200x256 mm | Hardback | July 2014 | 24pp | ISBN 9780733326059 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages 230x252 mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780733331732 Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360), Korean (Hansol Gyoyook) PICTURE BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS

In 2012, a southern right whale gave birth to a calf in Sydney The wickedly funny, deliciously clever picture book debut FLUKE Harbour. It was only the third time in recorded history that a THE NOSE from David Hunt with illustrations by award-winning artist LESLEY GIBBES & southern right whale had been born in the harbour, and the PIXIES Lucia Masciullo. MICHELLE people of Sydney were entranced. DAVID HUNT Oliver has a bad habit. A very bad habit. DAWSON The story of Fluke is based on these events. & LUCIA He just can’t keep his fingers out of his nose, which is a big AGES: 3+ Lesley Gibbes is the author of CBCA Early Childhood MASCIULLO problem for the tiny pixies who mine his ‘nose gold’ to keep Book Of The Year Honour Book, Scary Night, CBCA their cities running. AGES: 4-8 Beautifully captures the Notable Book, Little Bear’s First Sleep, Bring a Duck, Quick The Nose Pixies return to their kingdom with empty excitement, joy and awe as a Wink Fairy Pink, Bouncing, Bouncing Little Joeys and The hilarious debut handkerchiefs night after night. And unless their luck of a historical event. the hilarious CBCA Notable Book series Fizz, illustrated by picture book from the changes, they’ll be out of a job... or worse! Shortlisted - 2018 Stephen Michael King. award-winning author David Hunt is the bestselling author of Girt, which won the Environment Award for of Girt. This is a book Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for Children’s Literature with a grossness that kids Rights licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) will love, and a message the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the ABIAs. August 2017 | 32pp | parents will adore. Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany. In 2006 she 250x240mm | Hardback | August 2016 | 32pp | moved to Queensland and since then has become a much ISBN 9781921504891 275x225mm | Hardback | loved, award winning Australian illustrator. Her books ISBN 9780733334870 include The Boy and the Toy, Come Down, Cat and The Wild One and Olive of Groves.

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THE SHOP AT When Quil Medway gets on the train, she thinks she knows FA R T Is it a bird? where and how her journey will end. At camp. With another Is it a plane? HOOPERS school holiday spent surrounded by people, but feeling alone. MONSTER Are those clouds shaped like bottoms?! BEND Quil doesn’t know how wrong she is. She doesn’t know AND ME: anything about the shop at Hoopers Bend. Or a bitter, prickly Nothing exciting has ever happened in Ben Dugan’s EMILY RODDA woman called Bailey Or a little black and white dog who at THE CRASH backyard. That is, until something crash-lands from the this very moment is chewing through a rope so he’ll be free to biggest and smelliest storm cloud in the sky! AGES: 8+ LANDING answer a call that only he can hear. In one split second, Ben’s life changes forever... From one of Australia’s She doesn’t know about the magic. TIM MILLER & Fart Monster and Me is the hilarious new series from MATT STANTON most renowned children’s ‘Rodda is a master Storyteller... this is a beautiful, compelling bestselling duo Tim Miller and Matt Stanton – sure to get authors, this is a story kids laughing... and reading! story’ – Books+Publishing AGES: 5-7 about coming home when Emily Rodda is one of the most successful children’s authors Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages you didn’t even know that The chapter books your was where you belonged. in Australia and around the world. Her books include the phenomenally successful Deltora Quest series, which has sold reluctant reader will actually want to read! August 2017 | 256pp | nearly 15 million copies worldwide, across 25 different languages, and is one of the most popular children’s fantasy series ever 198x128 mm | Paperback | written. She has won the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s May 2018 | 64pp | ISBN 9781460753668 Book of the Year (Younger Readers) Award a record five times. 198x128mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780733338922 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages ALSO IN Rights Licensed (previous titles): Bestselling author, Emily Rodda’s work has sold in the millions globally, with over 15 million copies THE SERIES: sold of her Deltora Quest series. It has been published in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, , China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, , Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Norway, , , Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, , and the UK

SWEET In 1928, the McAllisters leave their daughter Addie at the LOTTIE Lights! Camera! Action! Emu Swamp Children’s Home, fully intending to return and That’s my cue. ADVERSITY collect her. PERKINS, ‘Harold,’ I sigh. ‘I think I’m in love. SHERYL Coming from a family theatrical background, Addie is MOVIE STAR a talented actor and singer, but unbeknownst to her the My name’s Charlotte, but you can call me Lottie. I’m a movie GWYTHER villainous theatrical agent Scrimshaw has heard Addie sing. KATRINA star. AGES: 10+ Scrimshaw now wants to add her to his next money-making NANNESTAD & At least, that’s my thing this week. venture, but when he turns up at Emu Swamp to collect MAKOTO KOJI Charlotte Perkins is seven years old and can’t wait to grow up Pippi Longstockings his prize, Scrimshaw finds she’s run away. Together with – if only she could decide what she wanted to be! Luckily, no meets Anne of Green Macbeth, her Shakespeare-quoting cockatiel, Addie is about AGES: 5+ dream is too big for little Lottie Perkins. Gables. to embark on an adventure of a lifetime. The junior series launch ‘Adversity McAllister is theatrical, kind, smart as a whip Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages July 2018 | 304pp | of the year! and oh so brave. I want her to be my best friend.’ − Katrina 198x128mm |Paperback | Rights Licensed: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) Nannestad ISBN 9781460755105 June 2018 | 64pp | Sheryl Gwyther is an award-winning author from Brisbane, 198x128mm | Paperback | Australia. Her first children’s novel, Secrets of Eromanga was ISBN 9780733339059 published in 2006. Sheryl’s awards include two Australian Society of Authors’ Mentorships, two May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellowship Residencies; and a 2015 Work-of- Outstanding-Progress Grant from SCBWI International (the first non-American to win) for her manuscript, Sweet Adversity. ALSO IN THE SERIES: Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages MIDDLE & JUNIOR MIDDLE & JUNIOR

Twelve-year-old Ashley is going to stay with her Aunt Micky When a boat carrying a group of asylum seekers is sunk by DEXTER: THE who lives near Byron Bay. Micky has spent many years REFUGE a freak wave, Faris wakes from the shipwreck in an Australia COURAGEOUS looking after rescued wildlife, but when a freak storm hits JACKIE he’s always dreamed of. There are grazing under and they discover a baby koala and his mother, Ashley is FRENCH orange trees and the sky is always blue. On a nearby beach, KOALA drawn into the reality of what caring for wildlife, such as Faris meets a group of young people who have come from far JESSE koalas, really involves. AGES: 10+ different times and places. BLACKADDER From the author of Stay: The Last Dog in Antarctica and Brilliant in construct, They are also seeking refuge, and each has their own story Paruku: The Desert Brumby comes a heart-warming and of why they had to leave their country to make a new life AGES: 9-12 compelling and moving story about one of Australia’s best-loved animals. extraordinarily moving, for themselves. It is only when Faris chooses to return to January 2015 | 208pp | ‘real life’ and find his father in Australia that he learns the Jesse Blackadder is an award-winning author and this is a book that reminds 198 x 128mm | Paperback | extraordinary truth about the friends he made on the golden freelance journalist and is fascinated by landscapes and us we are all newcomers to ISBN 9780733331787 beach. belonging. Her historical fiction novels The Raven’s Heart this country and everyone and Chasing the Light were published in 2011 and 2013. has a story worth hearing. From one of Australia’s best-loved authors comes a remarkable Jesse lives near Byron Bay, NSW. August 2013 | 272pp | story about Australia’s long history of migration and the 198 x 128mm | Paperback | people who make up our country. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages ISBN 9780732296179 Jackie French AM is an award-winning writer, wombat Rights Licenced in series: UK, US and Canada (Harper360) negotiator and was the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-2015 and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. In 2016 Jackie became a Member of the Order of ALSO BY Australia for her contribution to children’s literature and JESSE her advocacy for youth literacy. She is regarded as one BLACKADDER: of Australia’s most popular children’s authors, and writes across all genres.

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THIRD ‘I didn’t mean to do it’. WITCH Annie is not a witch, but when her mistress Lady Macbeth TURNING April Franklin is 13 years of age and has just started high calls for a potion to ‘stiffen Macbeth’s sinews’, Annie is caught school. April has also been dancing half her life and while JACKIE up in plots that lead to murder, kingship and betrayal. Annie POINTES she loves ballet, she’s not sure if classical is right for her, FRENCH must also not only choose between Rab the Blacksmith and particularly since she doesn’t have the perfect ballet body – Murdoch, Thane of Greymouth, but discover where her EMMA and of course all of the mean girls at her ballet school do... AGES: 10+ loyalty lies. FREEDMAN There are, however, many ways to dance, and when April has A searing story of Jackie’s books have been translated into many languages, AGES: 9-12 the opportunity to explore them she leaps at the chance, even passion, betrayal, and sold over 4 million copies. though she is very aware that her mother has high hopes for battles and love, this is A coming of age story that her as a classical dancer. Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages draws on Dancing with the stripped of superstition, Stars contestant Emma New school, mean girls, stage mothers, big dreams... and its power and beauty Freedman’s childhood sometimes finding your feet can be hard. refined into fewer words dance experience. Emma Freedman worked for the Nine Network for where good balances the April 2016 | 240pp | seven years and now co hosts a nightly radio show Scoopla evil and there is a happy 198 x 128mm | Paperback | with Jules Lund. Emma spent 10 years studying jazz, ending − for some. ISBN 9781460751633 tap, contemporary and hip hop dance. In 2015 she won the 15th season of Dancing With the Stars and was July 2017 | 256pp | ALSO IN named the best contestant the show had ever had. 198x128 mm | Paperback | THE SERIES: Emma lives in Sydney. ISBN 9780732298531

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This is the story of Johannes, and Frau Timmins, and This first book in the series tells the story of a young GOODBYE, the strange girl now known as ‘Helga’. BIRRUNG: indigenous girl, Birrung, who befriends orphaned Barney and his friend Elsie. Birrung is living with Mr Johnson, MR HITLER It is also the story of how they survived the death camps, the THE SECRET chaplain to the Australian colony in 1790, and his family. vast wilderness faced by refugees in WWII, and eventually JACKIE FRIEND Generous in spirit, the Johnson family also take in Barney found happiness in Australia. FRENCH JACKIE and Elsie who have only just been surviving on their meagre This moving and compelling book follows on from Heidi’s FRENCH daily rations. Despite living with the Johnsons, Birrung’s AGES: 10+ story in Hitler’s Daughter and Georg’s in Pennies for Hitler, connection to her people remains strong, and when Mr Third title following on and shows us that evil must be fought and won. AGES: 7+ and Mrs Johnson see how Barney’s feeling for Birrung from the award-winning are growing, they gently explain that his friendship with a But once you’ve won, the hardest and most necessary battle is February 2015 | 160pp | and best-selling Hitler’s ‘native’ girl and all that she taught him about her language to understand and forgive. 200 x 130mm | Paperback | Daughter and Pennies for and lore must remain a secret – forever. And to learn how to live and love again. ISBN 9780732299439 Hitler. Perfect for readers who loved the best-selling and award- Nanberry: Black Brother White June 2017 | 208pp | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages winning , The Secret Histories 198x128 mm | Paperback | series will be welcomed by all who love the power of Jackie ISBN 9781460751299 French’s storytelling. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages

It’s 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living PENNIES in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils’ heads to FOR HITLER Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a see which of them have the most ‘Aryan’-shaped heads. But BARNEY AND secret; a sailor’s secret about the treasure of the colony. JACKIE when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi FRENCH demonstration, Georg is smuggled out of Germany to war- THE SECRET But how can chasing whales make you rich? Is adventure at torn London and then across enemy seas to Australia where OF THE sea worth leaving everything he loves? AGES: 10+ he must forget his past and who he is in order to survive. WHALES Written by award winning author Jackie French and superbly Winner of the Young Hatred is contagious, but Georg finds that kindness illustrated by Mark Wilson, this second book in The Secret People’s History Prize 2013 can be, too. JACKIE Histories series explores how the early colony survived NSW Premier’s History FRENCH with the wealth from whaling, a little known secret from A companion piece to the best-selling Hitler’s Daughter, this Awards. Australia’s past. is a story of war-torn Europe during WWII, as seen through AGES: 7+ June 2012 | 336pp | the eyes of Georg. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages 198x128mm | Paperback | February 2016 | 320pp | ISBN 9780732292096 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages 198 x 128mm | Paperback | ISBN 9780732299446 Rights Licensed: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360)

HITLER’S Did Hitler’s daughter, Heidi, really exist? What if she did? The bombs were falling and the smoke rising from the DAUGHTER concentration camps, but all Hitler’s daughter knew was the world of lessons with Fraulein Gelber and the hedgehogs By the 1790s orphaned Barney Bean finally has his own farm JACKIE THE SECRET in the early NSW colony. All his dreams are coming true! FRENCH she rescued from the cold. Was it just a story or did Hitler’s daughter really exist? And if you were Hitler’s daughter, OF THE But now we are to learn of Barney’s biggest secret yet: how he AGES: 10+ would all the horror that occurred be your fault, too? Do BLACK helped Australia’s first bushranger escape. things that happened a long time ago still matter? October 1999 | 144pp | BUSHRANGER Was Black Caesar a wronged man, an ex-slave who vowed to 198x128mm | Paperback | First published in 1999, Hitler’s Daughter has sold over be free? Or was he a laughing villain, a trickster who planned ISBN 9780207198014 100,000 copies in Australia alone and has received great JACKIE to terrorise the colony? critical acclaim, both in Australia and in the12 countries FRENCH And in helping him, did Barney do right or wrong? where it has been published. AGES: 7+ You decide. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages February 2017 | 160pp | Jackie’s books have been translated into many languages, Rights Licensed: UK (HarperCollins), US (Harper 198x128 mm | Paperback | and sold over 4 million copies. Collins), Albanian (Dritan Editions), Korean (Book ISBN 9780732299453 Bank Publishing Co.) Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages MIDDLE & JUNIOR MIDDLE & JUNIOR

In 1798, orphaned Barney Bean now has a flourishing farm Trick or treat?! BARNEY AND in the New South Wales colony and everything he ever ZOMBIEFIED! It’s Benjamin Roy’s first Halloween as a zombie and he’s keen dreamed of... except his childhood friend Elsie. But when THE SECRET APOCALYPSE to see if being a real ghoul gets him more candy. But it doesn’t Elsie falls ill and Barney rushes to be by her side, he finally take long before the tricks become dangerous and the treats OF THE learns the deadly secret she has been hiding. Who is this C. M. GRAY turn deadly. strange and beautiful girl who will not sxpeak? And could FRENCH SPIES AGES: 8+ France ever attack the isolated colony? Then, when the only bridge out of town is destroyed, and JACKIE FRENCH The fourth and final book This fourth book in The Secret Histories series explores corpses start creeping from their caskets, he realises there’s in the Zombiefied series! something rotten in his town, and it’s not just the zombies... AGES: 7+ extraordinary and untold stories from Australia’s past, including the female French botanist who could only work June 2016 | 192pp | But how will Ben save anyone else, when he’s barely alive The new title in the critically disguised as a man, French and English spies, and wars 170x130mm | Paperback | himself? acclaimed series that explores between two empires that threatened even a far-off colony. ISBN 9780733334238 Australia’s early-Colonial Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages secret history. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed in series: Turkish (Nemesis Yayincilik), February 2018 | 144pp | US (Harper360), UK (Harper360) ), Canada (Harper360), 198x128 mm | Paperback | French (City Editions) ISBN 9781460751305

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Jack is in Year 6 now and still loves his photography, surfing, From the bestselling author of The Fartionary, The BEING JACK and crazy family. Things are going well for him, particularly THE Burptionary and The Enormous Book of Hot Jokes for Kool Kids SUSANNE at school where he isn’t bullied any more. But he notices that AWESOME comes a hilarious new collection of radical rap, rockin’ rhyme GERVAY his best friend Christopher is being taunted and is starting to and vile verse! miss school and hiding out and avoiding everyone. BOOK OF RAP, AGES: 8+ Andy Jones is an in-demand children’s entertainer. He When a football match turns ugly and Jack and Christopher RHYME AND constantly tours schools with his music and humour- The fourth and witness some unfair dirty play, they know that, again, the PUTRID based shows. concluding book about bullying has to stop. Jack – an ordinary boy POETRY Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages who does extraordinary Susanne Gervay OAM is the author of best-selling I Am ANDY JONES Rights Licensed: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360) things. Jack, Super Jack, and Always Jack. She has also written YA titles, including The Cave, Butterflies, and That’s Why I AGES: 6+ September 2014 | 192pp | Wrote This Song. Susanne lives in Woollahra, Sydney. 198 x 128mm | Paperback | A collection of grotty and ISBN 9780732296148 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages snotty raps, rhymes and Rights Licensed in series: US (Kane Miller), UK riddles from (Harper360), Brazilian Portugese (Editora Fundamento), the master of bodily Turkish (Marti Yayinlari) functions, Andy Jones. Wash your hands and get ready for... ALSO BY ANDY JONES: December 2016 | 272pp | ALSO IN 210x135 mm / Paperback | THE SERIES: ISBN 9780733335662 MIDDLE & JUNIOR MIDDLE & JUNIOR

Two of Perry Angel’s favourite people are Grandma Nell and Olive has always dreamed of attending boarding school, but NELL’S his good friend Jenkins. One night, while listening to Nell OLIVE OF Mrs Groves’ Boarding School for Naughty Boys, Talking FESTIVAL play the beautiful Tennessee Waltz, Perry thinks of the perfect GROVES Animals and Circus Performers is not what she expected. To way to bring his two favourite people together: he wants to tell the truth, dear reader, it is not what anyone expected! OF CRISP put on a dance – a proper one with petticoats and posies and KATRINA The headmistress is completely bonkers and Pig McKenzie, a real band. NANNESTAD WINTER school bully and all round nasty swine, is determined to GLORIES Perry shares his idea with his sisters, and before long the & LUCIA make Olive’s life unbearable. dance turns into a wonderful winter festival. But when MASCIULLO GLENDA Olive, however, is clever, sweet and kind, and soon gains the something happens to Nell, will Perry’s wish come true? AGES: 8-12 MILLARD loyalty and devotion of three rats, a short sighted , a compulsive liar and a goose who faints at the sight of & STEPHEN Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages From award-winning author Katrina Nannestad cherries. MICHAEL KING Rights Licensed: Korean (JajuBora Publishing), UK comes an unforgettable But will friendship and wits be enough when Pig McKenzie (Phoenix Yard Press), Chinese - Simplified (Shanghai 99 series... AGES: 7+ Readers’ Culture Co. Ltd.), US & Canada (Harper360) puts his Truly Wicked Plan into gear? Or will Olive be cast out of Groves forever? The final book in the November 2015 | 272pp | 185 x 135mm | Hardback | highly acclaimed, multi- Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages award-winning Kingdom ISBN 9780733333682 of Silk series is a heart- warming story about the power of love and family.

April 2013 | 144pp | ALSO ‘It’s a... a... What is it? Not a naughty boy. Not a talking animal. 196 x 130mm | Paperback | OLIVE OF Not even a circus performer. Oh me, oh my! It’s a time traveller!’ ISBN 9780733329845 IN THE GROVES AND SERIES: When last we met Olive, she had defeated school bully THE GREAT and all round nasty swine, Pig McKenzie, and proved her SLURP OF acrobatic skills, earning herself a place at Groves. But when a twelve year old time traveller lands on the TIME doorstep, trouble is just a minute away, and soon Olive is off KATRINA on an adventure as big as time itself... NANNESTAD Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages & LUCIA MASCIULLO When Inge Maria arrives on the tiny island of Bornholm in AGES: 8-12 THE GIRL Denmark to live with her grandmother, she’s not sure what to WHO expect. Her grandmother is stern, the people on the island are May 2016 | 288pp | BROUGHT strange, and children are not allowed to run wild or express 185 x 135mm | Hardback | themselves the way they did back in Copenhagen – especially ISBN 9780733333705 MISCHIEF if you are a girl. KATRINA Inge Maria tries not to feel sorry for herself, but she misses NANNESTAD her mama. And on top of everything else, mischief seems to have a way of finding her no matter how hard she tries to be OLIVE OF The Queen is coming to Mrs Groves’ Boarding School for AGES: 8-12 good… But could it be that a bit of mischief is exactly what Naughty Boys, Talking Animals and Circus Performers for Grandmother and the people of Bornholm need? GROVES AND tea! Nothing, absolutely nothing, could possibly spoil this In the tradition of Anne right royal moment. of Green Gables and Heidi Katrina Nannestad grew up in country NSW in a THE RIGHT comes a heart-warming neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children. She ROYAL ROMP Except for the return of scheming villain, Pig McKenzie... novel set in Denmark in celebrates family, friendship and belonging in her books. and the arrival of a strange, harsh woman called 1911 about love, family, She also loves writing stories that make children laugh. KATRINA Thistlebloom... and the fact that the Inspector of Schools has grief and joy. Katrina now lives near with her family and an NANNESTAD promised to close the doors of Groves forever if the Queen’s visit does not run smoothly... June 2013 | 224pp | exuberant black whippet called Olive. She dreams of one & LUCIA 198 x 128mm | Paperback | day owning a spotted pig called Harold. MASCIULLO Oh deary, deary me! Nothing ever runs smoothly at Groves! ISBN 9780733332005 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages AGES: 8-12 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Licensed: North America (Houghton Mifflin The third in this Company), Japan (Saela Shobo), Chinese – Complex incomparably witty and (Rye Field) charming series. October 2016 | 288pp | 185 x 135mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733333712 MIDDLE & JUNIOR MIDDLE & JUNIOR MIDDLE & JUNIOR

Bella really wants to take lessons at Miss Tweedle’s Ballet High on a cliff above the gloomy coastal town of Withering- BELLA School. When Dad says no, Bella’s barnyard friends hatch WITHERING- by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the DANCERELLA: some plans to help her. Can the animals and Bella convince BY-SEA damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery Dad to change his mind? leads a miserable life with her three dreadful Aunts. LOVES TO JUDITH Bella Dancerella loves to dance! She even dances with her ROSSELL But one night, Stella sees something she shouldn’t have... DANCE animal friends in her very own barnyard ballets. But Bella Something that will set in motion an adventure more terrifying POPPY ROSE dreams of being a real ballerina – a beautiful ballerina AGES: 8-12 and more wonderful than she could ever have hoped for... dancing on the stage! AGES: 4-7 A Victorian fantasy From hugely talented Judith Rossell comes a thrilling To discover a whole lot more about Bella, visit her website adventure, perfect for and gripping Victorian fantasy adventure, the first in an A gorgeous new series for www.belladancerella.com.au fans of Wildwood, Lemony extraordinarily exciting new series. girls aged. Perfect for fans of Snicket and Tensy Farlow. Pearlie in the Park and Magic Poppy Rose has worked in children’s publishing for many Rights Held: World English (excl. US); Translation – Winner - 2015 Indie Ballerina. years, and loves writing books for children – especially all languages about dancing! Awards, Book of the Year: August 2013 | 272pp Children’s & YA Rights Licensed: Japanese (Hyoronsha), German Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages 198x128mm | Paperback Winner - 2015 Aust. Book (Thienemann-Esslinger), Korean (Bmirae), US ISBN 9780732296179 (Simon & Schuster), Spanish, Catalan & Basque Rights Licensed: Brazilian Portuguese (Editora Industry Awards, Book of (Edelvives), Russian (Eksmo) Fundamento), US (Harper 360), UK (Harper360) the Year: Older Children Honour Book - 2015 Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards November 2014 | 304pp | 198 x 128mm | Hardback | ISBN 9780733333002

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When Stella Montgomery returned to the Hotel Majestic WORMWOOD cold and wet but exhilarated by adventure, the Aunts were MIRE furious. JUDITH Now they are sending Stella away to the old family home ROSSELL at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess. AGES: 8-12 But within the overgrown grounds of the mouldering house, The much-anticipated dark secrets slither and skulk, and soon Stella must be brave sequel to the most talked once more if she’s to find out who − or what − she really is... about Australian children’s novel of 2015! From bestselling writer illustrator Judith Rossell comes the thrilling and magical sequel to her multi-award-winning November 2016 | 304pp | novel, Withering-by-Sea. 198 x 128mm | Hardback | Judith has been an illustrator and writer of children’s ISBN 9780733333019 books for more than 12 years. Before that, she worked as a government scientist (not a mad scientist, a normal kind of scientist) and also for a cotton spinning company (that ALSO made threads for t-shirts and denim jeans and mops and IN THE teabag strings). SERIES: She has written 11 books and illustrated more than 80. Her have been published in the UK, the USA and have been translated into more than 10 languages. Judith lives in Melbourne with a cat the size of a Walrus.

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A GARDEN Children, listen and take heed, THE In the Selwood house, someone’s always up to no good! As this little book you read. One minute it’s the twins, Troy and Adam, pulling pranks and OF LILIES SELWOOD All your evil ways amend, making mischief... Next second it’s Joel and his sneaky, cheeky antics. JUDITH Or you will meet a dreadful end. BOYS ROSSELL TONY WILSON And little Scott just does his best (or make that his worst!) to From the bestselling world of Stella Montgomery comes keep up with the others. AGES: 9+ an illustrated alphabet of startling cautionary tales for the AGES: 8-12 discerning young reader. With four boys under one roof, there’s madness and mayhem A hilarious new series every day − and footy of course! An Illustrated alphabet Filled with uncommon facts for the novice conversationalist, about four of Australia’s of startling cautionary prudent advice for house and garden, and rigorous lessons in The Selwood brothers are four of the AFL’s favourite favourite football sons. tales for the discerning etiquette and manners, A Garden of Lilies will transform any sons. Troy Selwood played for the Brisbane from young reader. wayward child into the very picture of Victorian decorum November 2016 | 2005 to 2010 and his twin brother, , was a and grace. 160pp | Paperback | ISBN Premiership player for the . December 2017 | 64pp | 9780733335457 is a three-time Premiership player, five-time All-Australian, 198x128mm | Hardback | Judith has been an illustrator and writer of children’s four-time AFLPA Most Courageous Player and the current ISBN 9780733338229 books for more than 12 years. Before that, she worked as captain of the Geelong . Youngest brother, Scott a government scientist (not a mad scientist, a normal kind Selwood, was vice-captain of the West Coast Eagles and their 2012 Best and Fairest, before of scientist) and also for a cotton spinning company (that joining Joel at Geelong in 2016. made threads for t-shirts and denim jeans and mops and Tony Wilson is the author of The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas, The Cow Tripped Over teabag strings). the Moon, Emo the Emu and many more. She has written 11 books and illustrated more than 80. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Her have been published in the UK, the USA and have Rights Licenced: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360) been translated into more than 10 languages. Judith lives in Melbourne with a cat the size of a Walrus. ALSO Rights Held: World (excl. US) English; Translation – IN THE all languages SERIES:

THE GIRL, For the first ten years of Freya’s life, she and her mother FUNNY Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who Clementine have roamed the planet in search of zoological can make it happen. wonders. Happy, content, together. Freya and Clem. Clem THE DOG KID FOR He’s the class clown, the punch line and he’s even and Freya. AND THE PRESIDENT volunteered his bottom to be the butt of the joke. But now, everything is changing, and Clementine must send WRITER IN Freya away to live with her old friend Tobias, a bestselling MATT Max is the funny kid... and he’s running for class president. ROME crime writer, and the vaguest man Freya has ever encountered. STANTON Poop scandals, stalker ducks, surprise debates, psycho sports teachers, tell-all-interviews and the great library vomit-a- KATRINA Toby isn’t used to life with a small child, and Freya isn’t used AGES: 8-12 to life with people at all, but together they’ll stumble into an geddon are just some of the things in store for Max and his For fans of NANNESTAD Italian adventure so big that it will change things forever. And Diary of Wimpy friends at Redhill Middle School this election season. , and Toby might just discover that life’s what’s been happening Kid Tom Gates Big AGES: 8–12 , is the Matt Stanton is a bestselling children’s author and while he was busy writing books. Nate Funny Kid hilarious new series from illustrator, with over a quarter of a million books in He’s the world’s vaguest Katrina Nannestad grew up in country NSW in a bestselling children’s print. He is the co-creator of seven bestselling picture novelist. She’s a shy and neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children. She author Matt Stanton. books, including the mega hits, There is a Monster Under unusual child. Together, celebrates family, friendship and belonging in her books. My Bed Who Farts and This Is a Ball. He launched his they’re travelling the She also loves writing stories that make children laugh. Katrina now lives near Bendigo December 2017 | 64pp | much-anticipated middle grade series, Funny Kid, world, one book a time. with her family and an exuberant black whippet called Olive. She dreams of one day 198x128 mm | Hardback | around the world in 2017. owning a spotted pig called Harold. ISBN 9780733338229 November 2017 | 352pp | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages 185x135 mm | Hardback | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages ISBN 9780733338175 Rights Licensed: US (HarperCollins US), UK (HarperCollins UK), Czech (Euromedia), Simplified Chinese (Beijing White Horse Time), Brazilian Portuguese (Editora Fundamento), Dutch (HarperCollins Holland) ALSO COMING IN IN THE OCTOBER 2019: SERIES: THE GIRL, THE ALSO COMING IN THE IN JULY DOG AND THE SERIES: 2019: WRITER IN LUCERNE

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Way out in the country, Mrs Topple is Tan’s closest neighbour. Since moving to Australia with their father, Angus Jack and TRULY TAN: But Mrs Topple has gone on a cruise and Tan is in charge of THE his sister, Martha, have moved house constantly. They end TRAPPED! security at the Topple cottage. Tan is also looking after the garden FOURTEENTH up living next door to a peculiar old lady called Reafen, who and watering the plants. But mostly she’s in charge of security. is a second hand dealer. To Angus and Martha, Reafen seems JEN STORER Which is just as well because something suspicious is going on. SUMMER OF harmless enough. But who is she really and where did she get all the weird stuff in her shop? AGES 8−12 A strange car has been coming and going and a shadowy figure ANGUS JACK The next adventure in the has been spotted snooping around. And now Tan has noticed JEN STORER Without his knowledge, Reafen draws Angus into her world; best-selling Truly Tan items moving around in the garden — on their own! As tensions & LUCINDA into ancient feuds, Wild Magick and bitter rivalries – into series. mount, Tan decides a stake out is in order. Little does she know the secret dealings of Vikings and goblins and all those who she is walking straight into a trap. GIFFORD have lived in the Old Realm. Funny, exhilarating and a little May 2017 | 256pp | AGES: 8-12 bit scary; a bewitching blend of Norse mythology and urban Jen Storer is the author of the bestselling Truly Tan series. Truly 185x135 mm | Paperback | fantasy from the award winning author of Tensy Farlow and Tan: Jinxed was named CBCA Notable Book in 2014, and the Funny, exhilarating and a ISBN 9780733334122 the Home for Mislaid Children. series has been shortlisted and awarded for several children’s little bit scary; a bewitching choice and book awards. blend of Norse mythology Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Her novel Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children was shortlisted for the and urban fantasy. Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the 2011 CBCA Book of the Year. Jen is also September 2015 | 336pp | the author of The Fourteenth Summer of Angus Jack and Danny Best: Full On. 198 x 128mm | Paperback | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all language ISBN 9780733334436 Rights Licenced: Brazilian Portugese (Edutora Fundamento)

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DANNY BEST: Danny Best is always first. SELECTED Deep in the bush live some very strange creatures... First to wrestle a wild pig. ME FIRST! ADVENTURES Bottersnikes live in rubbish heaps along dusty roadsides in First to swim with . the lonely Australian bush. They have green wrinkly skin, cheese grater noses and long, pointed ears that go red when JEN STORER First to eat the eyeballs of a dead yak. O F they are angry. Which is most of the time. AGES: 7+ If the challenge is EPIC, Danny will be first. Read this book. BOTTERSNIKES It’s filled with four AWESOME stories, each one about AND GUMBLES Giggling Gumbles live in the bush, too. They are cheerful The third book in a hilarious Danny Best. So you’ll be impressed. little creatures who can be squashed into all sorts of series about a LEGEND named shapes, but cannot pop back into their proper shape unless ‘Danny Best: Me First! is a high octane and wild adventure S. A. WAKEFIELD Danny Best. Best by name, helped. This makes the friendly Gumbles useful to the ride that rolls along at a relentless pace.’ – Mrs B’s Book & DESMOND Best by reputation. lazy Bottersnikes, who have some very nasty plans... The Reviews DIGBY Bottersnikes may have some tricks up their sleeves, but so February 2018 | 320pp | ‘Mitch Vane’s magnificent illustrations spice up every page. AGES: 8+ do the resourceful Gumbles. The battle has begun! 190x153 mm | Paperback | Fans of Danny Best will love this one too, and long for the ISBN 9780733333354 next instalment of chaos and laughs.’ – Kid’s Book Review A new edition containing Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages selected stories of these Jen Storer has written many acclaimed books for children, Rights Licensed: US (Harper360), UK (HarperCollins favourite Australian including the best-selling Truly Tan series, illustrated by Claire UK) Robertson. Jen is the author of the children’s fantasy novels, characters, now released in an Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children, The Accidental animated TV series through Princess and The Fourteenth Summer of Angus Jack, illustrated by Netflix worldwide. Lucinda Gifford. Jen is also a picture book creator, whose titles January 2016 | 244pp | include Clarrie’s Pig Day Out with illustrator Sue deGennaro. 198 x 128mm | Paperback | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages ISBN 9781460751923

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Seventeen-year-old Gwen lives in an isolated town in the Seventeen-year-old Kat Hartland loathes Unrequited, P IS FOR wilderness of Tasmania. UNREQUITED the world’s biggest boy band. She’s 100 per cent immune PEARL Gwen becomes very good at not thinking about the awful EMMA GREY to ‘perfect’ singer Angus Marsden and his unfailingly things that have happened to her family. Instead, she focuses predictable lyrics. Show her the anti-fan club... she wants to ELIZA HENRY-JONES AGES: 12+ on her best friend Loretta, and the beach, which Gwen runs be its president! Just give her a proper musician. Or maybe AGES: 14+ along every day. She is also trying to accept and fit into her the seriously hot med student who rescued her on the train. An addictive reality Ideal formal partner, right? Ideal everything... new stepfamily, but also avoid her stepbrother Tyrone, whose fairytale... think Kate A poignant and moving sole purpose in life seems to be to annoy Gwen. A lot. Middleton or Princess Mary. But when Kat comes face to face with Angus Marsden book that explores the stories When two new kids arrive in this very quiet town things himself, things start to get complicated. Throw in a deranged we tell ourselves about our change. Could Handsome Ben really be interested in Gwen, October 2017 | 288pp | female singer, an enraged fandom, final exams, a part in a families, and what it means while his sister turns out to be a classic mean girl whom 210x135 mm | Paperback | musical and a mum who just doesn’t get it. to belong. Gwen and Loretta have to learn how to side step at school? ISBN 9781460755044 ‘It’s the literary equivalent of eating Tim Tams in your PJs on March 2018 | 304pp | As she deals with her deep sense of grief and loss, Gwen a Sunday afternoon. I loved this book.’ – Rebecca Sparrow, 210x135 mm | Paperback | slowly comes to realise that people aren’t as they first appear author of The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay and that like her, everyone has a story to tell. ISBN 9781460754931 Emma Grey is the Canberra-based author of Wits’ End ‘P is for Pearl is a complex, authentic exploration of grief, Before Breakfast! Confessions of a Working Mum and the friendship, mental illness, family and love, sensitively written by a writer whose voice will award-winning I Don’t Have Time, co-authored with ALSO resonate with teen readers.’ – Books+Publishing Audrey Thomas. Unrequited is her first novel, and the B Y story has inspired the development of a full-length EMMA Eliza Henry-Jones is the talented author of the celebrated novels In the Quiet and Ache. musical, created in collaboration with dual ARIA- GREY: She has qualifications in English, psychology and grief, loss and trauma counselling. She is winning composer, Sally Whitwell. Emma lives with her currently completing honours in creative writing – exploring bushfire trauma – and works daughters, Hannah and Sophie and her son, Sebastian. in community services. She lives in the Dandenong Ranges with her husband and too many animals. Eliza’s adult fiction was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Fiction, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and was longlisted in the Indie Awards and Rights Licenced: German (Thienemann Esslinger) ABIA Awards.

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In real life, they are enemies. Emma the know-it-all, Michael Happiness (Happy) Glass has been a loner since moving MERCY POINT the bully, Fabian the coward, Tessie the weirdo and Sam the PARIS to Brisbane and yet still dreams about living in Paris with ANNA SNOEKSTRA mystery. Online they are best friends, with one big thing in SYNDROME her best friend Rosie after they finish highschool. But Rosie common: they are all sure they are adopted. hasn’t been terribly reliable lately. AGES: 14+ LISA WALKER When they finally meet, they are horrified to find that the When Happy wins a French essay competition, her social life From the author of the people they have been sharing their souls with are the people AGES: 14+ starts looking up. She meets the eccentric Professor Tanaka acclaimed debut novel Only they hate. They decide to never speak again. and her girl-gardener Alex who recruit Happy in their fight Can romance only be found Daughter comes a book about against Paris Syndrome – an ailment that afflicts some visitors But avoiding each other is difficult in a small mountain town in Paris, the city of love? how much you’d be willing with only one high school. to Paris. Their quest for a cure gives Happy an excellent excuse to pursue a good-looking French tourism intern, also to risk to find out who you April 2018 | 320pp | It’s also tough to ignore one another when they each begin called Alex. To save confusion she names the boy Alex One really are. 210x135 mm | Paperback | to realise that what their parents are hiding is much more and the girl Alex Two. sinister than just adoption. ISBN 9781460755242 March 2018 | 304pp | As Happy pursues her love of all things French, Alex Two 210x135 mm | Paperback | The five teenagers have a choice to make. Continue to live introduces Happy to her xylophone-playing chickens whose ISBN 9781460754931 a lie, or come together to hunt down the truth, no matter languishing Facebook page Happy sponsors. how dangerous that may be. Because the real story of their parentage is much more terrifying than they ever could have But then sex messes things up when, confusingly, Happy imagined. It is a secret that goes to the very heart of the town ends up kissing both of the Alex’s. Soon neither of them is itself. speaking to her and she has gone from two Alex’s to none... ‘This is a fantastically gripping YA thriller, cleverly plotted For fans of John Green, this funny and poignant coming-of- and with believable teenaged protagonists… a great YA read age story is about that crazy thing called love. And how it can for fans of the ‘Illuminae’ or ‘Virals’ series.’ be found anywhere. – Books+Publishing Lisa has had a radio play produced for ABC RN and was Anna Snoekstra lives in Melbourne, Australia. She the winner of the Byron Bay Writers Festival short story recently wrote about writing for The Guardian. She award. She was a finalist in the ABC Short Story Award studied creative writing and cinema at Melbourne and won second placed in the Henry Savery and Port Liar University, followed by screenwriting at RMIT Stephens Literature Awards. Lisa is the author of Bird Sex, Lies and Bonsai University. She has made short films and music videos and . that have been screened internationally and worked as Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages an arts reviewer for the Melbourne Review.

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THE LILY AND Heiress Sophie Higgs was ‘a rose of no-man’s land’, founding FACING THE There have been fires before, but not like this. hospitals across war-torn Europe during the horror that was In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who THE ROSE WWI. FLAME live at Gibber’s Creek know their land can burn.But when JACKIE FRENCH Now, in the 1920s, Sophie’s wartime work must be erased so JACKIE FRENCH you love your land, you fight for it. that the men who returned can find some kind of ‘normality’. For Jed Kelly, an even more menacing danger looms: a man AGES: 13+ (MATURE AGES: 14+ Sophie is, however, a graduate of the mysterious Miss Lily’s from her past determined to destroy her. Finding herself school of charm and intrigue, and once more she risks her own READERS) alone, trapped and desperate to save her unborn child, Jed’s In this sequel to the life as she attempts to save others still trapped in the turmoil and only choice is to flee – into the flames. bestselling Miss Lily’s Lovely There have been fires aftermath of war. Ladies, Jackie French draws before, but not like this. Heartbreaking and powerful, Facing the Flame celebrates the us further into a compelling But in this new world, nothing is clear, in politics or in love. Heartbreaking and powerful. triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land story that celebrates the For the role of men has changed too. Torn between the love of so deep that not even bushfire can erode it. passion and adventure of an three very different men, Sophie will face her greatest danger yet December 2017 | 304pp | unstoppable army of women as she attempts an impossible journey across the world to save 234x153 mm | Paperback | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages who changed the world. Nigel, Earl of Shillings – and her beloved Miss Lily. ISBN 978146075320

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Could the world’s greatest writer truly put down his pen In 1894, 12-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her THE DIARY forever to become a gentleman? A WALTZ FOR unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie OF WILLIAM He was a boy who escaped small town life to be the most MATILDA and he’s wanted by the troopers. In front of his terrified acclaimed playwright of the land. A lover whose sonnets SHAKESPEARE, JACKIE daughter, he makes a stand against them, defiant to the last. still sing 400 years later; a glover’s apprentice who became a FRENCH ‘You’ll never catch me alive, said he…’ GENTLEMAN gentleman. Set against a backdrop of bushfire, flood, war and jubilation, JACKIE But was he happy with his new riches? Who was the woman AGES: 11+ this is the story of one girl’s journey towards independence. It FRENCH he truly loved? And the book where it all is also the story of others who had no vote and very little but began... AGES: 12+ The world knows the name of William Shakespeare. This their dreams. book reveals the man — lover, son and poet. Based on new December 2010 | 496pp | Drawing on the well-known poem by A.B. Paterson and from Part comedy, part love story; documentary evidence, as well as textual examination of his 198x128mm | Paperback | events rooted in actual history, this is the untold story behind the threads of Shakespeare’s plays, this fascinating book gives a tantalising glimpse at what ISBN 9780732290214 Australia’s early years as an emerging nation. life as drawn from his plays. might have been: the other hands that helped craft those August 2016 | 272pp | plays, the secrets that must ever be hidden but – just possibly Jackie’s books have been translated into many languages, 198x128mm | Paperback | – may now be told. and sold over 4 million copies. ISBN 9781460750575 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages YOUNG ADULT YOUNG ADULT

In the sequel to the page-turning Ghost House, Alexander Reade The school captain: Ryan has it all – or at least he did, until HAUNTED turns up at Sycamore High not remembering how he got there. THE an accident snatched his dreams away. How will he rebuild ALEXANDRA But worse, he doesn’t remember Chloe Kennedy and believes he YEARBOOK his life and what does the future hold for him now? has come back to search for his lost love, Isobel. ADORNETTO COMMITTEE The newcomer: Charlie’s just moved interstate and she’s Chloe soon realizes that Alex needs her help surviving in the determined not to fit in. She’s just biding her time until Year AGES: 12+ modern world. With his looks and the way he speaks, it’s as SARAH 12 is over and she can head back to her real life and her real The edge-of-your seat though he’s from another century. Which he is. In fact Alex AYOUB friends. has been dead for 157 years, but that doesn’t change how powerful conclusion to The loner: At school, nobody really notices Matty. But Chloe feels about him. AGES: 14+ Ghost House. at home, Matty is everything. He’s been single handedly Five teenagers. Five lives. June 2017 | 432pp | Chloe begins to experiences dreams that take her to a past holding things together since his mum’s breakdown, and he’s One final year. 210x135 mm | Paperback | life and realises they are linked to Isobel. But when Isobel never felt so alone. appears, Alex and Chloe must accept that the past and the ISBN 9780732299347 March 2016 | 336pp | 210 x The popular girl: Well, the popular girl’s best friend... cool by present have collided. Chloe is being hunted by ghosts led 135mm | Paperback | ISBN association. Tammi’s always bowed to peer pressure, but when by Isobel, who is just as vengeful as ever and out to sever any 9780732296858 the expectations become too much to handle, will she finally bond between Alex and Chloe. stand up for herself? And she will do so – no matter the cost. The politician’s daughter: Gillian’s dad is one of the most Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages recognisable people in the state and she’s learning the hard way that life in the spotlight comes at a very heavy price. Rights Licenced: US (Harper360), UK (Harper360) Five unlikely teammates thrust together against their will. Can they find a way to make their final year a memorable one, or will their differences tear their world apart?

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‘Alex is more real that anyone I’ve ever known. And him being Seventeen-year-old Sophie hates Monday mornings, socks GHOST dead... really doesn’t change a thing.’ HATE IS worn with sandals, and having to strategise like she’s a battle sergeant every time she asks her parents if she can go out. But HOUSE After the death of her mother, Chloe Kennedy starts seeing SUCH A she especially hates being stereotyped because she’s Lebanese. ALEXANDRA ghosts again. Spending time at her grandmother’s country STRONG ADORNETTO estate in the south of England helps Chloe deal with her grief When New Guy, Shehadie Goldsmith, is alienated at her and the spirits that haunt her. WORD Lebanese school because his dad’s Australian, she hates the way it makes her feel. Like she’s just as prejudiced as AGES: 13+ Until she meets a mysterious stranger. SARAH AYOUB everyone else. Like she could make a difference if she stopped Following her Alexander Reade is 157 years dead, with a secretive past and pretending she’s invisible. Like the attraction between them internationally best-selling an alluring force that draws Chloe more strongly than any AGES: 12+ might be too strong to fight... But hate is such a strong Halo trilogy — licensed in ghost she’s encountered before. But the bond between them word... 20 territories — comes a infuriates the vengeful spirit of Alexander’s past love, Isobel. The story of a seventeen- Can Sophie find the strength to speak out – even if it means new series from Alexandra And she will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who threatens year-old girl caught going against everything she’s been brought up to believe? Adornetto, a talented to take him from her. between two cultures. young author A brilliant debut novel about identity, love, culture and Alexandra Adornetto was born in Melbourne in 1992 September 2015 | 256pp | who understands her finding your place. Sarah Ayoub is a freelance journalist, and now lives in Los Angeles with her mini Yorkie, Boo 210 x 135mm | Paperback | audience like no other. commentator and postgraduate research student based in Radley. Her first series, The Strangest Adventures, was ISBN 9780732296841 Sydney, Australia. September 2014 | 320pp | published when Alexandra was fifteen. The YA series Halo 210 x 135mm | Paperback | marked her international debut with publication in over Her work has appeared in various print and online ISBN 9780732299330 25 countries and the first title appearing at No. 4 on the publications including Marie Claire, Madison, Sunday New York Times Bestseller List. Magazine, Cleo, Frankie, Yen, and Girlfriend; and she has spoken at numerous industry events with the Emerging Rights Held: World (excl. North America) English; Writer’s Festival, NSW Writer’s Centre, The Walkley Translation – all languages Foundation, Vibewire and more.

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Emily has been best friends with Adriana since Year One. ‘Milo was a discoloured memory with blurred edges and a MY BEST At the beginning of Year Ten Adriana’s mother dies suddenly, REMIND ME washed-out palette. Yet five minutes with him and everything FRIEND IS A and everything changes. Adriana’s father accepts a job in HOW came back to me in an instant.’ Borneo. When they return at the end of the year, Adriana has Layla Montgomery’s life fell apart at thirteen. After her mum GODDESS gone from awkward to AMAZING and turned into a goddess! THIS ENDS died in a shock accident, Layla’s grieving father packed their TARA Luckily Adriana is no different on the inside. She’s still the GABRIELLE bags and forced her to leave behind everything she’d ever EGLINGTON same best friend Emily knows and loves. Emily just wishes TOZER known. that someone would show interest in her for any other Milo Dark has been stuck on pause since the Year 12 exams. AGES: 12+ reason besides being Adriana’s best friend. In the meantime, AGES: 12+ His long-term girlfriend moved 300 kilometres away for uni, she’s committed to helping Adriana manage the throngs of Two best friends crushing A boy-meets-girl-again his mates bailed for bigger things, and he’s convinced he missed potential suitors that are texting and emailing in the hope of an on one very cute guy... story from the award- the reminder to plan out the rest of his life. someone’s going to get introduction to ‘the goddess’. That is, until she sees the brand winning author of The their heart broken. new guy in art class. The one who’s called Theo James and Intern and Faking It. As kids, Layla and Milo shared everything – their secrets, a makes Emily laugh. The one who doesn’t seem all that affected treehouse and weekends at the river. But they haven’t spoken November 2016 | 400pp | by Adriana’s appearance. April 2017 | 288pp | since her mum’s funeral. That is, until Layla shows up five 234x153mm | Paperback | 198x128 mm | Paperback | years later in his parents’ bookshop without so much as a text Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages ISBN 9780732299903 ISBN 9781460751688 message. Rights Licensed (Previous title): US(St Martin’s Press), Brazil (Editora Fundamento) Pretty soon they’re drawn into a tangled mess that guarantees someone will get hurt. And while it’s a summer they’ll never forget, is it one they’ll want to remember?

Eight years ago, Mercer Corporation’s M-Bands became Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages DISRUPTION mandatory. An evolution of the smartphone, the bracelets Rights Licenced: US (Harper360) JESSICA promised an easier life. Instead, they have come to control it. SHIRVINGTON Two years ago, Maggie Stevens watched helplessly as one of Josie Browning dreams of having it all. the people she loved most was taken from her, shattering her AGES: 13+ THE INTERN world as she knew it. A stellar academic record, an amazing career in journalism – What if a microchip could GABRIELLE and for her current crush to realise she actually exists. The only Now, Maggie is ready. And Quentin Mercer – heir to the identify your perfect TOZER problem? Josie can’t get through 24 hours without embarrassing M-Corp empire – has become key to Maggie’s plan. But match? her sister Kat or her best friend Angel, let alone herself. as the pieces of her dangerous design fall into place, could AGES: 12+ What if it could be used Quentin’s involvement destroy everything she’s fought for? In Josie’s luck changes though when she lands an internship at Funny, insightful and against you and the ones a world full of broken promises, the ones Maggie must keep the glossy fashion magazine Sash. A coveted columnist job is written with warmth and you love? could be the most heartbreaking. up for grabs, but Josie’s got some tough competition in the understanding, The Intern form of two other interns. Battle lines are drawn and Josie April 2014 | 416pp | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages (ex is for everyone who has quickly learns that the magazine industry is far from easy, 234 x 153mm | Paperback | German) had – and survived – the especially under the reign of powerful editor, Rae Swanson. ISBN 9780732296285 Rights Licensed: Turkish (Yabanci Yayinlari), UK job from hell! Totally fresh and funny, this debut novel from industry (Harper360), US (Harper360) February 2014 | 336pp | insider Gabrielle Tozer reveals just what is behind the 198 x 128mm | Paperback | seeming glamour and sparkle of the magazine industry. ISBN 9780732297053 Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages You can’t stop technology. You can’t go back in time and have Rights Licensed: German (Verlagsgruppe Random House CORRUPTION a do-over. But you can cut off the head of the dragon. GmbH), US (Harper 360), UK (Harper360) JESSICA You can show the world the truth. SHIRVINGTON And you can fight for the people whose lives have been stolen Things are finally looking up for 18-year-old Josie Browning. From the author of from them. FAKING IT Her hot new boyfriend James can’t keep his hands off her, internationally best-selling And the price for the quest? GABRIELLE she’s moved into a share house in the city and she’s scored a Embrace series. coveted job as indi website’s junior writer. Possibly everything. TOZER AGES: 13+ But life was never meant to go smoothly, so when indi’s AGES: 12+ features editor Sia announces she’s pregnant and needs time November 2014 | 336pp | Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages off, the pressure is on for Josie to prove to her editor Liani 234x153mm | Paperback | (excl. German) Eighteen just got a whole that she’s got what it takes to be a real journalist. And when ISBN 9780732298609 lot more complicated. Josie is suspected of stealing from one of magazines’ rising Rights Licensed: Turkish (Yabanci Yayinlari), UK January 2015 | 336pp | queen at a luxurious media junket, she is thrown into (Harper360), US (Harper360) 198 x 128mm | Paperback | a mystery of lies, theft and deceit that threatens to ruin her ISBN 9780732297060 reputation, love life and career forever.

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On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, Claudia is unexpectedly Bestsellers. Award-winners. Superstars. THE RAVEN’S summoned to Rome by the father she hasn’t seen in ten years, BEGIN, END, This anthology has them all. WING a wealthy and powerful senator. She finds herself with both BEGIN:A a new family and a luxurious new home in the capital of the With brilliantly entertaining short stories from beloved FRANCES world’s greatest empire. #LOVEOZYA young adult authors Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will WATTS Kostakis, Ellie Marney, Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice But Claudia soon discovers a contest of power and ambition ANTHOLOGY Pung, Gabrielle Tozer, Lili Wilkinson and Danielle Binks, is secretly being waged and she is the prize. Torn between AGES: 12+ DANIELLE this all-new collection will show the world exactly how much two rivals for her hand in marriage, she must choose between BINKS there is to love about Aussie YA. From bestselling and her duty and her heart... a choice that could have deadly award-winning author consequences. AGES: 14+ Danielle Binks is a writer and reviewer, and youth Frances Watts comes literature advocate. She is currently editing and From multi-award-winning author Frances Watts comes a the first in an incredibly Harnessing the power of contributing to Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA gripping mystery of love and intrigue set in Ancient Rome. exciting series of the #LoveOzYA social Anthology. standalone historical media movement, this novels. Rights Held: World English; Translation – all languages new anthology features Also contributing to the anthology are Australian authors short stories from ten Amie Kaufman, Melissa Keil, Will Kostakis, Ellie Marney, August 2014 | 304pp | beloved YA authors. Jaclyn Moriarty, Michael Pryor, Alice Pung, Gabrielle 198 x 128mm | Paperback | Tozer and Lili Wilkinson. Between them they’ve written ISBN 9780733332913 May 2017 | 320pp | books that have been recognised in the Inky Awards, 234x153 mm | Paperback | CBCA Awards, Prime Minister’s Awards, Aurealis Awards, ISBN 9781460752319 Indie Book Awards and many more.

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When Kasumi leaves her remote village for the teeming THE PEONY city of Edo, her life is transformed. As a lady in waiting in a LANTERN samurai mansion she discovers a rare talent for art and falls in love with a young samurai. How could she ever return to the FRANCES life of a simple mountain girl? WATTS But Kasumi must set aside her own concerns. Her country is AGES: 12+ on the brink of change and Edo is simmering with tension. And her mistress has a dangerous secret a secret that Kasumi The spellbinding historical is gradually drawn into... novel from multi-award- winning Australian author Set against the vivid backdrop of nineteenth-century Japan, Frances Watts. The Peony Lantern is a powerful story of art, love and friendship, and finding your own path. August 2015 | 304pp | 198 x 128mm | Paperback | Frances Watts was born in Switzerland and moved to ISBN 9780733332920 Sydney when she was three. She worked as a bookseller and editor for nearly ten years before she began her writing career. Her first picture book, Kisses for Daddy (illustrated by david legge), was an Honour Book 2006 CBCA awards and has sold thousands of copies around the world. Her next two picture books with David Legge, Parsley Rabbit’s Book about Books and Captain Crabclaw’s Crew, both won accolades in the CBCA awards. More recently, she won the prime minister’s literary award for Goodnight, Mice! (With Judy Watson).

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