Recommended reading list of Australian books
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One Very Tired Wombat, Renee Treml
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
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)
Cowzat!, Bruce Atherton, Ben Redlich (Illustrator)
Bushland Lullaby, Sally Odgers, Lisa Stewart (Illustrator)
Tea With Miss Tilly, Justine Payen
The Frog Who Lost His Underpants, Juliette MacIver
A is for Auckland, Diane Newcombe & Melissa Anderson Scott
To Get To Me, Eleanor Kerr, Judith Rossell (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)
Yoo-Hoo, Lady Bird!, Mem Fox, Laura Ljungkvist (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)
I Got This Hat, Jol Temple, Kate Temple, Jon Foye (Illustrator)
The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate, Joy Cowley
A Lion In The Meadow, Margaret Mahy
Koalas, Kites and Kangaroos, David Ridyard, Doreen Gristwood (Illustrator)
Heather Fell in the Water, Doug Macleod, Craig Smith (Illustrator)
It's a Miroocool!, Christine Harris, Ann James (Illustrator)
Ernie Dances to the Digeridoo, Alison Lester
The Terrible Plop, Ursula Dubosarsky, Andrew Joyner (Illustrator)
Waddle Giggle Gargle!, Pamela Allen
Little Cat and the Big Red Bus, Jane Godwin, Anna Walker (Illustrator)
Maxx Rumble Footy 9 : Grand Final Fever!, Michael Wagner, Terry Denton (Illustrator)
Isla Lu, Where are you?, Catriona Hoy, Annie White (Illustrator)
Billy B Brown - The Bully Buster, Sally Rippin
Tashi, Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, Kris Gamble
There's a HIppopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake, Hazel Edwards, Deborah Niland
Dancing Queen (Go Girl!), Thalia Kalkipsakis
Stories for 6 Year Olds, various
Grandma Joins the All Blacks, Helen McKinlay
Dinosaur Rocks, Lachlan Creagh
With Nan, Tania Cox, Karen Blair (Illustrator)
The Truth About Penguins, Meg McKinlay, Mark Jackson (Illustrator)
Waiting for Hugo, Amanda Niland, Claire Richards (Illustrator)
My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day, Catriona Hoy, Benjamin Johnson (Illustrator)
The Koala Who Bounced, Jimmy Thomson, Eric Lobbecke (Illustrator)
Where Are You, Banana?, Sofie Laguna, Craig Smith (Illustrator)
Davy and the duckling, Margaret Wild, Julie Vivas (Illustrator)
Duck for a Day, Meg McKinlay, Leila Rudge (Illustrator)
Not like Georgie, Scott Hatcher
Don't Look Now, Paul Jennings, Andrew Weldon
Peeking Ducks, Krista Bell & Sally Rippin, Sally Rippin (Illustrator)
Greetings from Sandy Beach, Bob Graham
The New Friend (Hey Jack!), Sally Rippin
Stories For Seven Year Olds, Linsay Knight (Editor), Tom Jellett (Illustrator)
Ben and the Icky-Ooky-Sticky-Smick, Sally Sutton
The Fish of Maui, Peter Gossage
Alfie's search for destiny, David Hardy
Flood, Jackie French, Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
Are We There Yet?, Alison Lester
Inside the World of Tom Roberts, Mark Wilson
The Very Naughty Velociraptor, Nick Falk
Lulu Bell and the Birthday Unicorn, Belinda Murrel, Serena Geddes (Illustrator)
My Big Book of Nibbles, Penguin Books (Editor)
The Peasant Prince, Li Cunxin, Anne Spudvilas (Illustrator)
Figaro and Rumba and the Crocodile Café, Anna Fienberg, Stephen Michael King (Illustrator)
My Friend the idea, Cheryll Jones
Starting school, Jane Godwin, Anna Walker (Illustrator)
Crocodile Jack, Leonie Norrington, Terry Denton (Illustrator)
The 26-Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton (Illustrator)
The Little Refugee, Anh Do, Bruce Whatley (Illustrator)
A Treasury Of NZ poems for Children, Paula Green (ed)
Phantom of Terawhiti, Des Hunt
Brave Bess and the Anzac Horses, Susan Brocker
The Greedy Crocodile, Sally Morgan
The Naming of Tishkin Silk, Glenda Millard, Caroline Magerl (Illustrator)
Bungawitta, Emily Rodda, Craig Smith (Illustrator)
Sophie Scott Goes South, Alsion Lester
Big Little Book Of Happy Sadness, Colin Thompson
Hitler's Daughter, Jackie French
Norman Does Nothing, Jen Storer, Andrew Joyner (Illustrator)
Just A Dog, Michael Gerard Bauer
The Garden of Empress Cassia, Gabrielle Wang
My Place, Nadia Wheatley, Donna Rawlins (Illustrator)
Friendship Matchmaker, Randa Abdel-Fattah
Juliet nearly a vet The great pet plan, Rebecca Johnson, Kyla May (Illustrator)