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Jess Black (text)
Sam Loman (illustrator)
Penguin, July 2025, 192 pp., $14.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781761348532
Foul Play is the second book in a new middle grade series that centres on the fictionalised girlhood of Australian netballer, Jo Weston. Like the first book, this story includes a mystery that Jo and her...
Katrina Nannestad (text)
Cheryl Orsini (illustrator)
ABC Books, September 2025, 192 pp., $26.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780733344008
The Table of Contents at the front of this book indicates how wide-ranging it is. It covers everything from how to use the book, through creating characters to planning. The book is very practic...
Judith Rossell
ABC Books AU, September 2025, 128 pp., $15.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780733343865
Delightful, delightful, delightful. Do you think I enjoyed Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish? Yes. It is ridiculously funny.
Both the illustrations and text aim to delight. When that Fancy Fish arrives in a huge b...
E.V. Woods
Usborne, August 2025, 384 pp., $19.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781805077633
Girls of Dark Divine by E.V. Woods is a dark and emotional story about a group of ballet dancers called “The Marionettes” who are trapped by a curse. Malcolm the man who runs the theatre placed the curse on them so he can control their...
Pip Harry & Kate Foster (text)
Joanna Bartel (illustrator)
Larrikin House, October 2025, 208 pp., $16.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781923345157
Attack of the Aliants follows Isla and Archie, two very different Aussie kids thrown together at an elite sports camp. Isla has been pushed into the camp by her superstar s...
