

Recommended reading list of Australian books
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Tea With Miss Tilly, Justine Payen
The Frog Who Lost His Underpants, Juliette MacIver
A is for Auckland, Diane Newcombe & Melissa Anderson Scott
Yoo-Hoo, Lady Bird!, Mem Fox, Laura Ljungkvist (Illustrator)
The Runaway Hug, Nick Bland, Freya Blackwood (Illustrator)
There was an old sailor, Claire Saxby, Cassandra Allen (Illustrator)
Banjo and Ruby Red, Libby Gleeson, Freya Blackwood (Illustrator)
That's Not a Daffodil!, Elizabeth Honey
Let's Go Baby-o!, Janet and Andrew McLean
Come Down, Cat!, Sonya Hartnett, Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
Too many Elephants in this house, Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner (Illustrator)
Meet Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, May Gibbs
Ed and Ted and Ted's Dog Fred, Andy Griffiths
Luke's Way of Looking, Nadia Wheatley, Matt Ottley (Illustrator)
Seadog, Claire Saxby, Tom Jellett (Illustrator)
To Get To Me, Eleanor Kerr, Judith Rossell (Illustrator)
Same, but little bit different, Kylie Dunstan
Somebody's House, Katrina Germein, Anthea Stead (Illustrator)
My Uncle's donkey, Tohby Riddle
Too Many Cheeky Dogs, Johanna Bell, Dion Beasley (Illustrator)
The Grumpy Lighthouse Keeper, Terrizita Corpus, Maggie Prewett (Illustrator)
Hooray for Chester!, Rina A.Foti, Ellen J. Hickman (Illustrator)
Zoo Sleepover, Douglas Holgate
I wish there were Dinosaurs, Amanda Niland, Christina Booth (Illustrator)
Rosie Sips Spiders, Alison Lester
Green as a Bean, Alison Lester
All Set For The Big Wet, Mandy Foot
The Very Cranky Bear, Nick Bland
Below Deck on the Sunken Wreck, Mandy Foot
One Very Tired Wombat, Renee Treml
The Wonderful Whisper, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Anna Pignataro (Illustrator)
The Littlest Bushranger, Alison Reynolds, Heath McKenzie (Illustrator)
Wombat Went a Walking, Lachlan Creagh
Today We Have No Plans, Jane Godwin, Anna Walker (Illustrator)
A Lion In The Meadow, Margaret Mahy
The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate, Joy Cowley
Waddle Giggle Gargle!, Pamela Allen
Pooka, Carol Chataway, Rycroft Nina
There's a HIppopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, Hazel Edwards, Deborah Niland
Tashi, Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, Kris Gamble
Billy B Brown - The Bully Buster, Sally Rippin
Isla Lu, Where are you?, Catriona Hoy, Annie White (Illustrator)
Maxx Rumble Footy 9 : Grand Final Fever!, Michael Wagner, Terry Denton (Illustrator)
Little Cat and the Big Red Bus, Jane Godwin, Anna Walker (Illustrator)
I Got This Hat, Jol Temple, Kate Temple, Jon Foye (Illustrator)
The Terrible Plop, Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner (Illustrator)
Ernie Dances to the Digeridoo, Alison Lester
It's a Miroocool!, Christine Harris, Ann James (Illustrator)
Heather Fell in the Water, Doug Macleod, Craig Smith (Illustrator)
Koalas, Kites and Kangaroos, David Ridyard, Doreen Gristwood (Illustrator)
Grandma Joins the All Blacks, Helen McKinlay
Stories for 6 Year Olds, various
Where Are You, Banana?, Sofie Laguna, Craig Smith (Illustrator)
Stories For Seven Year Olds, Linsay Knight (Editor), Tom Jellett (Illustrator)
The New Friend (Hey Jack!), Sally Rippin
Greetings from Sandy Beach, Bob Graham
Peeking Ducks, Krista Bell & Sally Rippin, Sally Rippin (Illustrator)
Don't Look Now, Paul Jennings, Andrew Weldon
Not like Georgie, Scott Hatcher
Duck for a Day, Meg McKinlay, Leila Rudge (Illustrator)
Davy and the duckling, Margaret Wild, Julie Vivas (Illustrator)
Dancing Queen (Go Girl!), Thalia Kalkipsakis
The Koala Who Bounced, Jimmy Thomson, Eric Lobbecke (Illustrator)
My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day, Catriona Hoy, Benjamin Johnson (Illustrator)
Waiting for Hugo, Amanda Niland, Claire Richards (Illustrator)
The Truth About Penguins, Meg McKinlay, Mark Jackson (Illustrator)
The Fish of Maui, Peter Gossage
Ben and the Icky-Ooky-Sticky-Smick, Sally Sutton
The Very Naughty Velociraptor, Nick Falk
The 26-Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton (Illustrator)
Crocodile Jack, Leonie Norrington, Terry Denton (Illustrator)
Starting school, Jane Godwin, Anna Walker (Illustrator)
My Friend the idea, Cheryll Jones
Figaro and Rumba and the Crocodile Café, Anna Fienberg, Stephen Michael King (Illustrator)
The Peasant Prince, Li Cunxin, Anne Spudvilas (Illustrator)
My Big Book of Nibbles, Penguin Books (Editor)
Lulu Bell and the Birthday Unicorn, Belinda Murrel, Serena Geddes (Illustrator)
Inside the World of Tom Roberts, Mark Wilson
Are We There Yet?, Alison Lester
Flood, Jackie French, Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
Brave Bess and the Anzac Horses, Susan Brocker
Phantom of Terawhiti, Des Hunt
A Treasury Of NZ poems for Children, Paula Green (ed)
Hitler's Daughter, Jackie French
Juliet nearly a vet The great pet plan, Rebecca Johnson, Kyla May (Illustrator)
Friendship Matchmaker, Randa Abdel-Fattah
My Place, Nadia Wheatley, Donna Rawlins (Illustrator)
The Garden of Empress Cassia, Gabrielle Wang
Just A Dog, Michael Gerard Bauer
Norman Does Nothing, Jen Storer, Andrew Joyner (Illustrator)
The Little Refugee, Anh Do, Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
Big Little Book Of Happy Sadness, Colin Thompson
Sophie Scott Goes South, Alsion Lester
Bungawitta, Emily Rodda, Craig Smith (Illustrator)
The Naming of Tishkin Silk, Glenda Millard, Caroline Magerl (Illustrator)