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Book Week 2025

2025 Short List

Early Childhood

9781923145054

Don't Worry Felix

by Yohann Devezy & Katherine Alice

Illustrated by Zoe Bennett

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9780734421883

Everything You Ever Wanted

to Know About The Tooth Fairy

by Briony Stewart

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9781761180309

How to Move a Zoo

by Kate Simpson

Illustrated by Owne Swan

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9781742036656

One Little Dung Beetle

by Rhian Williams

Illustrated by Heather Potter & Mark Jackson

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9781761381010

Spiro

by Anna McGregor

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9781760656416

The Wobbly Bike

by Darren McCallum

Illustrated by Craig Smith

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Picture Story Cbca
9781760993894

A Leaf Called Greaf

by Kelly Canby

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9781760505899

Afloat

by Kirli Saunders

Illustrated by Freya Blackwood

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9781460757550

The Garden of Broken Things

by Freya Blackwood

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9781761215766

The Truck Cat

by Deborah Frenkel

Illustrated by Danny Snell

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9781761293849

These Long-Loved Things

by Josh Pyke

Illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh

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9781760764647

We Live in a Bus

by Dave Petzold

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Additional
9781922507716

Flora

Australia's Most Curious Plants

by Tania McCartney

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Eve Pownell
9781761068645

South With The Seabirds

by Jess McGeachin

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Eve Pownell

 

9781923044210

A Teaspoon of Light

by Peter O'Connor & Nisaluk Chantanakom

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New Illustrator
9780702268656

Digger Digs Down

by Johanna Bell

Illustrated by Melissa Bolliger

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New Illustrator

 

9781922790606

Birdy

by Sharon Kernot

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Older Readers

 

9781761180767

I'm Not Really Here

by Gary Lonesborough

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Older Readers

 

9781760507558

Into The Mouth of the Wolf

by Erin Gough

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Older Readers

 

9781760984977

The Skin I'm In

by Steph Tisdell

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Older Readers

 

9781760996505

A Wreck of Seabirds

by Karleah Olson

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Older Readers
9781760294762

Comes The Night

by Isobelle Carmody

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Older Readers

 

9781761560132

Laughter is the Best Ending

by Maryam Master

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Younger Readers
9781460763506

Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger

by Jackie French

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Younger Readers
9781761180378

To and Fro

by Anton Clifford-Motopi

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Younger Readers