Abbey's children's and young adult section contains thousands of books for kids of all ages, from baby to teenager. The collection is lovingly curated by Lindy Jones, Buyer and Senior Bookseller at Abbey's. Lindy is also on the judging panel of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier accolade for fiction writing.
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Do you have a budding journalist in your family? Always asking the probing questions? Always asking 'But why'? Get them the scoop on what it takes to become a reporter!
Saffron Howden has made a career in journalism (she had a very good foundation with her uni job here at Abbey's) and has also championed news for kids with Crinkling News (now sadly in hiatus), a newspaper of which Saffron and colleague Remi Bianchi were founders.
Here in KID REPORTER, Saffron and co-author Dhana Quinn distill the skills needed to move to the next level. In a post-truth world we need a new generation of truth-seekers! The truth is out there kids... Go forth!
Kid Reporter: The secret to breaking news
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With a Little Kelp from Our Friends: The Secret Life...
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A Case of Grave Danger
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Plantastic!: A to Z of Australian Plants
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Flight of the Griffin: Rise of the Mythix 3
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The Way of the Weedy Seadragon
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Friday Barnes 9: No Escape
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Truly Tan Shocked (#8)
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GRAVEYARD RIDDLE
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Robofight (#2 E-Boy)
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GIVE ME SOME SPACE
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When We Say Black Lives Matter
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The Traitor: Wolf Girl 4
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The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens...
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Cat Kid Comic Club
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Little Gem
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$14.99
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Whose Bones? Match-it Cards
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The Art in Country: A Treasury for Children
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$29.99
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My First 100 Space Words
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The Virus
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$14.99
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Sing Me the Summer
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The 130-Storey Treehouse (#10 Treehouse)
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The Unwilling Twin
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The Ultimate Animal Alphabet Book
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The Physics of Popcorn: Discover and Learn with 22 Experiments...
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The Maths of Milkshakes: Discover and Learn with 20...
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The Biology of Bananas: Discover and Learn with 22 Experiments...
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The Chemistry of Cola: Discover and Learn with 21 Experiments...
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Zoe, Max and the Bicycle Bus
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Hello Jimmy!
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Esmeralda's Nest
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Claudette
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Whose Bones?
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How Ships Work
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Cities Then and Now: Lift the Flaps and Step Back in...
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The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals
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Young Dark Emu: A Truer History
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Finding Our Heart: A Story about the Uluru Statement...
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Cooee Mittigar: A Story on Darug Songlines
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Our Home, Our Heartbeat
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Found
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Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures
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Australia's Wild Weird Wonderful Weather
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GOLD RUSH #1
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Took the Children Away
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Show me the Money
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A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth
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The 130-Storey Treehouse (#10 Treehouse)
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The World's Worst Parents
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Slime
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Code Name Bananas
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Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
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Funny Kid Peeking Duck (Funny Kid, #7)
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Grime and Punishment (#9 Dog Man)
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The Grandest Bookshop in the World
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The Deep End (#15 Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
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Zoe, Max and the Bicycle Bus
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E-Boy (#1 E-Boy)
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The Beast of Buckingham Palace
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We Are Wolves
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From the prolific author-illustrator cames another wonderfully quirky and entertaining book to share and enjoy with little readers. It's in the vein of the best-selling Mopoke, with lots of silliness wrapped up in wordplay and expressive illustrations but using the marsupial instead. So we start with Wombat, go on to Twobats, then Threebats. Whether Acrobat or Pingbat (followed of course by Pongbat and its cubic poo) or Dingbat and so on the illustrations contain their own in-jokes, and the sequences are not always predictable - but always funny. Another winner! Lindy
This is a bushfire tale rather than a cutesy Mothball the Wombat story, so the use of a different illustrator separates French's usual wombat books from this one. The creatures of the bush flee before a fire, and some of them find refuge in the wombat's burrow. In the aftermath, they all suffer, but help comes from an unexpected quarterÂ… Simple but effective rhyming conveys a harsh tale with delicacy and eventually hope. The illustrations in soft browns and greys are non-confrontational but match the words effectively. Partial proceeds of this go towards the Wombat Protection Society, so you can combine a good book for little children with doing good! Lindy
Katherine knows that everyone has a passion. Her Dad's is art, her Mum's is insects, her brother's is music. She's tried lots of things herself, but they aren't for her, because the thing she likes the best is - maths! She knows it's everywhere, hidden in the everyday, and that her passion can be hard to understand. But that's okay, because there are infinite ways to see the worldÂ… Charming watercolour and ink illustrations demonstrate some of Katherine's pleasures, and a lovely section at the back simply explains fractals, basic polygons, solid figures, concentric circles, types of curves, trajectories and sets. And yes, the little girl's name is a homage to the great American mathematician, Katherine Johnson! Deserves to be a classic! Lindy
When Jeffers' baby son was born he wrote Here We Are. Now he has a daughter, and this is his gift to her! In unforced rhyme he plans a future with her, one where they build a house to be a home, and walls and gates, and towers and roads and boats and comfy places to rest, places to stay and store their loveÂ… Illustrated in his trademark style, full of colour and light and sweet touches of humour . A beautiful tribute to a parent's love, and all the possibilities having a daughter brings to their life. Lindy
Age range 0 to 4 The perfect primer of essential STEAM words for your little genius from the #1 Science author, Chris Ferrie! Babies and toddlers are curious and ready to learn!
I Have to Start at School Today
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Would You Like a Banana?
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100 Cats
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The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book
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$14.99
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If Baby Could Talk
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Charles Darwin
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Maisy's Chinese New Year
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Spot's Slide and Seek: Aquarium
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Harry and the Guinea Pig
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An Amazing Australian Road Trip
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$24.99
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How to be a Real Man
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$19.99
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Day Break
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$24.99
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The Lost Spells
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The Tree
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Duckling: A Fairy Tale Revolution
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Blueblood: A Fairy Tale Revolution
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Wild Symphony
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GIVE ME SOME SPACE
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Bilby Secrets
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Wide Big World
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The Red Bridge
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Fish: A tale about ridding the ocean of plastic pollution...
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Horatio Squeak
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The Shortest Day
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These are fairytales rewritten and given contemporary relevance (and afterwords), by important and well-regarded authors known for their strong feminist principles and distinctive literary styles. Heavily text-based though presented in a classic children's picturebook format, accompanied by illustrations in a classic silhouette style by Laura Barrett (and in the case of Cinderella Liberator, using Arthur Rackham illustrations). Best for older readers rather than little children, but thoroughly recommended! Lindy
Hattie is struggling with her parent's separation, particularly the rule that says she can't speak with the parent she isn't staying with in their week-about arrangements. There are a lot of rules in Hattie's life, from letting her little sister come first in everything all the time, to school rules ordered by a restrictive principal. When the dilapidated mansion near her old family house is threatened with demolition, Hattie finds the strength within to fight for what she believes in - helped by meeting a sad and lonely young girl who is living in the past.
A lovely story full of emotional reality, with a nicely turned bit of time slippage adding interest. Upper primary readers should enjoy this. Lindy
Set in the Depression in rural America, a family who once lived a comfortable life find themselves eking out a precarious living on Echo Mountain, They are warned not to go to the peak, but as staying fed and warm takes up all their efforts anyway, there's no need.
Narrated by the second child, Ellie, who has taken to the lifestyle change with practicality, curiosity and good grace (unlike her mother and older sister who mourn the loss of their town life) their existence is even more threatened when Ellie's father meets with a terrible accident - one she bears the brunt of, as well as the blame. It means she takes on more responsibility, but even the bravest of us needs supportÂ…
I adore Wolk's novels, which treat readers with calm sophistication about big issues, with their strong female characters on the cusp of teenage learning how to navigate life and change and even when bad things happen, finding the resilience to manage and grow. Lindy
Witch
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Disasters
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Ruthless Gods (#2 Something Dark and Holy)
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The Conference of the Birds (#5 Miss Peregrines Children)...
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Winterwood
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The Cheerleaders
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The Westing Game
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How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories (Folk...
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone (#1 Daughter of Smoke and...
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Days of Blood and Starlight (#2 Daughter of Smoke and...
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Dreams of Gods and Monsters (#3 Daughter of Smoke and...
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These Violent Delights
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The Ravens (#1 Ravens)
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The Greatest Hit: Australia Reads Special Edition
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The Winter Duke
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Chicken Girl
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Super Fake Love Song
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Kind of a Big Deal
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The Cousins
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I Know You Remember
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Fright Night
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War Girls (#1 War Girls)
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Here the Whole Time
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Aster's Good, Right Things
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Sea Witch Rising (#2 Sea Witch)
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Girl Gone Viral
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Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel (GN)
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The Iron Queen Special Edition (Iron Fey)
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Darius the Great Deserves Better
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Mind the Gap, Dash and Lily
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The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones
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City of Beasts
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Burn Our Bodies Down
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The Inheritance Games
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The Virus
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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Art in Country: A Treasury for Children
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Marvel Character Encyclopedia
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$39.99
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The Greatfulness Guide: Next Level Thinking - How to...
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This One Is Ours
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The Body Image Book for Girls: Love Yourself and Grow...
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The Human Body Survival Guide
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