AustLit

'Little Lon scrapes back the layers of history to show how people lived and worked in a post settlement Australian city. Behind the grand buildings of the big streets was Little Lon. A working-class district of little houses and narrow lanes, bursting with life and the stories of the people who lived there. The poor of the time are not often celebrated in traditional histories, but Little Lon shows us something of the way people really lived.' (Publication summary)

'During World War I, Australian and New Zealand soldiers on the front were sent Christmas care packages in a tin billy. The Anzac Billy is the heartwarming story of a little boy packing a billy with all his father’s favourite things – added to by mum and grandma – even though he realises there is no way that the billy can actually go to a particular soldier.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled on the waves of migration to the shores of Australia for tens of thousands of years. 

'This book tells some of their stories.Waves is a narrative non-fiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia.' (Publication summary)

'Nanna’s button tin is very special. It has buttons of all shapes and sizes and they all have a different story to tell. But today, one button in particular is needed. A button for teddy. A beautiful story about memories and the stories that shape a family. ' (Synopsis)

'From the moment she wakes until her cuddle before bed, her busy day is full of special moments.' (Publication summary)

'From the moment he wakes to his cuddle before bed, his busy day is full of special moments.' (Publication summary)

'A moving illustrated verse novel about a girl dealing with isolation at school, and with her grandma’s illness at home.

'At school, Pearl feels as though she is in a group of one. Her teacher wants her to write poems that rhyme but Pearl’s poems don’t. At home, however, Pearl feels safe and loved, but her grandmother is slowly fading, and so are Mum and Pearl. When her grandmother eventually passes away, Pearl wants life to go back to the way it was and refuses to talk at the funeral. But she finds the courage to deliver a poem for her grandmother that defies her teacher’s idea of poetry – her poem doesn’t rhyme; it comes from the heart.' (Publication summary)

Sam's elderly grandfather is sick. He asks Sam and his friend Naomi to bring back some magic water from a spring deep in the forest where the purest water on Earth runs from a crack between the rocks. On their journey Sam and Naomi encounter the Bunyip, the beautiful Fairy, the greedy Gnome, the cunning Goblin, the evil Wizard and the ethereal Sprites, the guardians of the spring.

'Tooth fairies have been around for a very long time, even longer than your parents. Hard to believe, isn't it? They know all about how teeth normally fall out but, because of inventions like bikes and sticky toffees, the Queen Tooth Fairy has to keep adding to the list of special conditions.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.