From inspiring treasures like All the Ways to be Smart through to hilarious gens like Hello Hotdog - this year has brought us so many wonderful and original new kids’ books.
Young readers and those young at heart will delight in Cicada and Tales from the City - two beautiful books from the amazing Shaun Tan. Then there's all the big names in children's fiction! Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, David Walliams, Matt Stanton, Jessica Townsend, Mem Fox & Judy Horacek, Aaron Blabey and so many more!
Read on as we count down our Top Ten Children's Books from 2018.
From the award-winning creators of The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade and Under the Love Umbrella comes this joyful ode to all the unique and wonderful qualities that make children who they are.
‘Every page of this book in joyous, imaginative and life-affirming … All the Ways to be Smart is a celebration of what childhood can be, and it will likely become a classic.’ – LOUISE PFANNER, BOOKSELLER AND AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR OF THE ‘LOUISE BUILDS ...’ SERIES,
Hot Dog is relaxing on some comfy bread with a little corn and some fries when suddenly...disaster strikes! It looks like he's about to become lunch. Prepare for a laugh-out-loud picture about this little hot dog's quest for freedom.
Boldly illustrated by the brilliant Jarvis, winner of Best Illustrated Book at the V&A Illustration Awards 2017, this hilarious, irreverent picture book is told entirely in speech bubbles and demands audience participation - and your undivided attention!
A stunning companion to Tales from Outer Suburbia, this collection of illustrated short stories is sure to delight Shaun Tan fans of all ages.
Where can we live if not in each other's shadow? World-renowned artist Shaun Tan applies his unique imagination to a reflection on the nature of humans and animals, and our urban coexistence.
From crocodile to frog, tiger to bee, this is a dark and surreal exploration of the perennial love and destruction we feel and inflict - of how animals can save us, and how our lives are forever entwined, for better or for worse.
Tales from the Inner City is a masterful work, bearing all of Shaun Tan's trademark wit and poignancy in both its prose and exquisite illustrations.
A companion to Good Night, Sleep Tight!
Join Bonnie and Ben as they rhyme their way through the day...until a twinkle, twinkle, little star calls them home.
From Mem Fox and Judy Horacek, the team behind best-selling classics including Ducks Away,This and That and Where is the Green Sheep?
The dawn of time! Nothing on earth could rival the terrifying power of the dinosaurs.
Except maybe that wolf over there...Yeah, the one standing next to the snake and the shark and that other sardiney-looking thing.
Huh?! This is all wrong. This is all bad. This is all awesome. Its time to get your Jurassic on, baby. It's time... For the Bad Guys Episode 7!
The story of a cicada who works in an office, and all the people who don't appreciate him.
The new picture book from multi-award-winner Shaun Tan, author of The Arrival, The Lost Thing and Rules of Summer.
Cicada works in tall building. Data entry clerk. Seventeen year. No sick day. No mistake. Tok Tok Tok! Cicada works in an office, dutifully toiling day after day for unappreciative bosses and being bullied by his coworkers.
But one day, cicada goes to the roof of the building, and something truly extraordinary happens ...
Eww! What a stinker!
Pig isn't just the world's greediest Pug, he's the DIRTIEST too.
It's high time he had a bath! But try telling Pig that . . .
Over two million Pig books are now in print around the world!
Return to the magical world of Nevermoor!
Morrigan Crow's perilous adventures continue in the most anticipated sequel of the year, a treat for all fans of magic and Wunder. Morrigan Crow has been invited to join the prestigious Wundrous Society, a place that promised her friendship, protection and belonging for life.
She's hoping for an education full of wunder, imagination and discovery - but all the Society want to teach her is how evil Wundersmiths are. And someone is blackmailing Morrigan's unit, turning her last few loyal friends against her.
Has Morrigan escaped from being the cursed child of Wintersea only to become the most hated figure in Nevermoor? Worst of all, people have started to go missing.
The fantastical city of Nevermoor, once a place of magic and safety, is now riddled with fear and suspicion...
Read all about it! Read all about it! ICE MONSTER FOUND IN ARCTIC!
When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster – a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole – she’s determined to discover more…
A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime – from London to the heart of the Arctic!
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes in David Walliams’ biggest and most epic adventure yet!
Caution : May make you laugh your head off!
The 104-Storey Treehouse is the eighth book of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations.
Join Andy and Terry in their wonderfully wild and wacky 104-storey treehouse. You can throw some refrigerators, make some money with the money-making machine (or honey if you'd prefer-it makes that too), climb the never-ending staircase, have a bunfight, deposit some burps in the burp bank, get totally tangled up in the tangled-up level, or just take some time out and relax in the peaceful sunny meadow full of buttercups, butterflies and bluebirds.
Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!
