Media Bites September 2023

In My Garden KATE MAYES AND TAMSIN AINSLIE In our gardens are where we belong. Planting, watching, growing, dreaming. In our gardens something out of nothing comes. Join children from around the world as they share their gardens, from blossoming flowers in Japan to the waterside of Malawi, the frozen landscape of Iceland to the bush tracks of Australia. These are the places they love and the places they belong. With uplifting lyrical words and stunning detailed pictures from bestselling duo, Kate Mayes and Tamsin Ainslie.

Christmas Days in the Sunshine

That’s Not My Monster...

Creeping Beauty ANDREA PORTES

Babies and toddlers will love exploring the fuzzy, bumpy and fluffy tactile patches, as well as spotting the little white mouse in this colourful board book. There’s lots to look at and talk about, which will help to develop language, as well as sensory development.

BYLL AND BETH STEPHEN

Bitsy is no one’s ideal princess. She’s heard it all: that it’s a shame she’s so plain, so lacking in grace. That the best thing for her to do is simply wait (and wait some more) and hope some prince will grant her a happy ending. Then Bitsy pricks her finger and falls down... down...down. Into a world where cutthroats and con artists are more common than curtsies. Where no one ages and everyone is beautiful. Where an inscrutable evil rests at its core. A land where Bitsy’s fate and her future are solely in her own hands, and neither are what she expects.

Every year in December Christmas lights go up ‘round here.

I wait up late till it’s darker to see them in the moonlight. From Byll and Beth Stephen, the writers behind the ABC TV musical sensations Teeny Tiny Stevies, comes a celebration of summer and the joys of an Australian Christmas.

Released: 30/08/23 NSH | 32pp AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 30/08/23 BOA | 10pp AU $14.99 NZ $16.99 Imprint:Usborne

Released: 06/09/23 NSH | 24 pp AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Imprint: ABC Books

Released: 30/08/23 B+P| 368pp AU $19.99 NZ $16.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Millie Mak the Maker ALICE PUNG AND SHER RILL NG Nine-year-old Millie Mak has discovered that she has a superpower: she can take everyday objects and turn them into something new, beautiful and useful. Who would ever think that a sunhat could be made from an old bedsheet, a skirt from a tea towel, or some hair scrunchies from a scarf? Join Millie and her friends in this joyful and timely series about true friendship and creativity. Like Millie, you can make the special objects that she creates. And, best of all, nothing needs to be bought! An inspiring series for young and old makers everywhere, by the award-winning author-illustrator team Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng.

How The Grinch Lost Christmas DR SEUSS

The Grinch has grown to LOVE Christmas, so when the Grinch sees a poster for Who-ville’s Christmas tree contest, he has an awfully crafty idea - he will show off his new festive spirit by making the tallest, most spectacular Christmas tree the Whos have ever seen! But when things don’t go as planned, will the Grinch return to his grinchy ways, or can one special Who remind him of the true meaning of Christmas? Celebrate the season alongside all your favourite characters with this sequel to the timeless classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Released: 30/08/2023 NSH| 40pp AU $24.99 NZ $26.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

Released: 30/08/23 CHB | 288pp AU $22.99 NZ $24.99 Imprint:HarperCollins

CHILDREN’S

CHILDREN’S