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Ellie's dragon / Bob Graham.

No friendship is imaginary. When Ellie is very little, she finds a newborn dragon fresh from the egg on a supermarket shelf, and calls him Scratch. He is quite the sweetest thing she has ever seen! From that day on, Ellie and Scratch do everything together. Ellie's mum and her teacher can't see her fiery friend, but all her friends can and, over the years, Ellie's dragon grows to be big, house-trained, and very affectionate. And Ellie is growing, too.
Author: Graham, Bob, 1942-
Published: London : Walker Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - GRA - Onloan - Due: 24 Jul 2023 - Yes (Set: 04 Oct 2023) - W00180938
Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - GRA - Available - W00180937

Not cute / Philip Bunting.

Quokka did not like being cute. Not one bit. The romping, stomping, chomping tale of one stubbornly adorable marsupial.
Author: Bunting, Philip
Published: Gosford, NSW : Omnibus Books, an imprint of Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume of unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - BUN - Available - W00180860

Where we begin / Christie Nieman.

"Seventeen-year-old Anna is running into the night. Fleeing her boyfriend, her mother, and everything she has known. She is travelling into the country, to the land and the grandparents she has never met, looking for answers to questions that have never been asked. For every family has secrets. But some secrets - once laid bare - can never be forgiven." -- Publisher's website.
Author: Nieman, Christie
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2020.
Published: ©2020
356 pages ; 20 cm.

Tara Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Young Adult Fiction - Y NIE - Available - W00181214

Bindi / by Kirli Saunders ; illustrations by Dub Leffler.

Meet 11-year-old Bindi. She's not really into maths but LOVES art class and playing hockey. Her absolute FAVOURITE thing is adventuring outside with friends or her horse, Nell. A new year starts like normal--school, family, hockey, dancing. But this year hasn't gone to plan! There's a big art assignment, a drought, a broken wrist AND the biggest bushfires her town has ever seen!
Author: Saunders, Kirli
Published: Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
129 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Fiction - J SAU - Available - W00181924

The unwilling twin / Freya Blackwood.

Jules and George are the same in every way. It is quite impossible to tell them apart. Like all twins, Jules and George do everything together. But after a long, hot day at the beach, even twins sometimes disagree ...
Author: Blackwood, Freya
Published: [Melbourne, Victoria] : Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm.

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - BLA - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - W00181671

Anemone is not the enemy / Anna McGregor.

Anemone lives alone in the rock pool. The tide comes in and the tide goes out. All Anemone wants is a friend, but friends are hard to make when you accidentally sting everyone who comes near you. Perhaps Clownfish has a solution to the problem.
Author: McGregor, Anna
Published: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribble, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 30 cm

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - MACG - Onloan - Due: 04 Feb 2021 - Yes (Set: 20 Apr 2021) - W00181549

Your birthday was the best! / Maggie Hutchings, Felicita Sala.

A plucky young cockroach gate-crashes a birthday party with hilarious results.
Author: Hutchings, Maggie
Published: South Melbourne : Affirm Press, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - HUT - Available - W00183900
Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - HUT - Onloan - Due: 03 Aug 2023 - Yes (Set: 14 Oct 2023) - W00183899

We love you, Magoo / Briony Stewart.

A classic in the making - joyous and playful, this will be read again and again. Pitched perfectly at the pre-schooler, just learning the rules who loves being the boss. Gorgeous illustrations and a rhyming text that's a delight to read out loud.
Author: Stewart, Briony
Published: Hawthorn : Penguin Books Australia , 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - STE - Available - W00183536
Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - STE - Onloan - Due: 20 May 2024 - W00183535

This small blue dot / Zeno Sworder.

With a strong message of interconnectedness, hope and empowerment, This Small Blue Dot follows a little girl exploring the big and small things in life. From contemplating our place on this 'blue dot' to the best Italian, Chinese and Indian desserts, the book provides a broader, more inclusive view of who we are, where we come from and where our dreams may take us. Delivering big lessons with playful humour, the precocious young narrator shares her take on nature and the environment, wisdom from elders, broccoli, embracing difference and the power of imagination. This Small Blue Dot captures not only lessons on life but also the sense of fun and strangeness that comes with being a member of the human family on planet Earth.
Author: Sworder, Zeno
Published: Port Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) ; colour illustrations ; 29 cm.

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - SWO - Onloan - Due: 15 May 2024 - W00183054

Norton and the Bear / Evans, Gabriel.

A laugh-out-loud must-have book on copying, from a rising Australian picture book star. Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Or is it just annoying? This irresistible read-aloud helps children deal with the sensitive topics of conformity, individuality and belonging in an accessible, kid-friendly way.
Author: Evans, Gabriel
Published: Preston West, VIC : Berbay Publishing, 2020.
32 p. 22 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - EVA - Available - W00183146
Wandoan Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - EVA - Available - W00183147

The book of Chance : a novel / by Sue Whiting.

Chance is a black-and-white thinker until she realises that sometimes there are shades of grey. Chance is in Year 7 and thinks she has it all - a loving mother, dog Tiges, best friend and almost-sister next door. But when a reality TV team makes over her house, she discovers newspaper cuttings from the past that cause her to question the world as she knows it and everyone in it. Then she finds herself caught between two realities, identities and worlds. Face-to-face with the truth, Chance has a very difficult decision to make, which almost splits her in two.
Author: Whiting, Sue (Susan Allana), 1960-
Published: Newtown, N.S.W. : Walker Books Australia, 2019.
Published: ©2019
277 pages ; 20 cm.

Meandarra Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Fiction - J WHI - Available - W00148621

Who's your real mum? / words, Bernadette Green ; illustrations, Anna Zobel.

"Elvi, which one is your mum?" "They're both my mums." "But which one's your real mum?" When Nicholas wants to know which of Elvi's two mums is her real mum, she gives him lots of clues. Her real mum is a circus performer, and a pirate, and she even teaches spiders the art of web. But Nicholas still can't work it out! Luckily, Elvi knows just how to explain it to her friend...
Author: Green, Bernadette
Published: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribble, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - GRE - Available - W00177145
Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 4-5yrs - GRE - Available - W00183784

Aster's good, right things / Kate Gordon.

Eleven-year-old Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left. Each day Aster must do a good, right thing-a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else's life better. Nobody can know about her things, because then they won't count. And if she doesn't do them, she's sure everything will go wrong. Then she meets Xavier. He has his own kind of special missions to make life better. When they do these missions together, Aster feels free, but if she stops doing her good, right things will everything fall apart?
Author: Gordon, Kate, 1982-
Published: Capalaba, QLD : Riveted Press, [2020]
Published: ©2020
183 pages : 1 illustration ; 21 cm.

Meandarra Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Fiction - J GOR - Available - W00148527

The illustrated encyclopaedia of dangerous animals / Sami Bayly.

Dangerous animals get a bad rap, but this book helps us appreciate the incredible features of some of our more hair-raising animal species.With more than sixty of the most deadly and dangerous animals from across the world to explore, every page of this beautifully illustrated volume is more eye-opening than the last. You will learn interesting facts about these fascinating species, (many of which you won't have even known were deadly) such as how they have adapted to survive and whether we should be threatened by these animals or appreciate them for their incredible features. Children and adults alike will pore over the breathtaking scientific illustrations of unusual animals from the geography cone snail to the wolverine, the Irukandji jellyfish to the slow loris, debating their relative dangerous features, learning about science and nature along the way.
Author: Bayly, Sami
Published: ©2020.
Published: Sydney, NSW : Lothian Children's Books, an imprint of Hachette Australia, 2020.
126 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm.

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Non-Fiction - JNF 591.65 BAY - Available - W00148450
Jandowae Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Non-Fiction - JNF 591.65 BAY - Available - W00183192

How to make a bird / Meg McKinlay ; [illustrated by] Matt Ottley.

This book book that celebrates the transformative power of the creative process from inception through recognition to celebration and releasing into the world. We shadow the protagonist as she contemplates the blue print of an idea, collects the things that inspire from the natural world to shape a bird. And breathes life into it before letting it fly free. It shows how small things, combined with a little imagination and a steady heart, can transform into works of magic.
Author: McKinlay, Meg
Published: Newtown, NSW : Walker Books Australia, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - MACK - Available - W00177435
Jandowae Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - MACK - Available - W00183678

My story = Ngaginybe jarragbe / Shirley Purdie ; Gija translation by Eileen Bray.

I am Shirley Purdie. This is my story = Ngayin-ga Birrmarriyan-nga Berrembi jarragbe ngaginybe. My mother shows me how to get bushtucker and she shows me how to paint. Now I'm a famous artist. My paintings are all over the world hanging in important places. Happy times. Told in English and Gija, this is the story of Shirley Purdie, famous Gija artist, as told through her paintings, as part of the Ngaalim-Ngalimboorro Ngagenybe exhibition created for the 2018 National Portrait Gallery exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. The exhibition will be rehung, in Gallery 1, to coincide with the launch of My Story, along with a series of cultural engagement activities based on My Story. This is the first book in the Kimberley Art Centre Series. The series focuses on developing the skills of Kimberley Aboriginal artists in children's picture book storytelling and illustration.
Author: Purdie, Shirley, 1948-
English & Gija.
Published: Broome, Western Australia : Magabala Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Kimberly Art Centre series

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Non-Fiction - 759.994 PUR - Available - W00183363

Ribbit rabbit robot / Victoria Mackinlay, Sofya Karmazina.

This lamp is enchanted and I am the genie. I'll grant all your wishes, but don't be a meanie... When a friendly frog, a greedy rabbit and a robot with a short fuse discover a magic lamp, chaos follows...and friendship is found.
Author: Mackinlay, Victoria
Published: Gosford, NSW : Scholastic Press, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 x 25 cm

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - MACK - Available - W00184996

Worse things / Sally Murphy ; illustrated by Sarah Davis.

Worse Things follows the lives of three main characters: Blake, an Aussie Rules football player who suffers a devastating injury; Jolene, a hockey player who hates the game and and is grieving over the recent death of her father; and Amed, a soccer-loving, non-English speaking orphan who feels like an outsider since arriving in Australia after being raised in a refugee camp. On the surface, it seems they have nothing in common, except sport, but other things conspire to bind them together.
Author: Murphy, Sally, 1968-
Published: Newton, NSW : Walker Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
200 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Fiction - J MUR - Available - W00180698

Strangers on Country / David Hartley & Kirsty Murray ; illustrated by Dub Leffler.

This book is fiction and non-fiction. The fictional part tells the story of five white castaways or runaways who were found and cared for by Indigenous groups. There are five pairs of stories: each pair of stories has one written by an Indigenous author and one by a non-Indigenous author. After each story there is a non-fiction section that tells the true story from history.
Author: Hartley, David, 1979-
Published: Canberra, ACT : NLA Publishing, [2020].
Published: ©2020
vii, 116 pages : colour illustrations, portraits, 1 map ; 24 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Non-Fiction - JNF 305.899 HAR - Available - W00180276

Matthew Flinders : adventures on leaky ships / Carole Wilkinson ; illustrated by Prue Pittock.

Matthew Flinders was a country boy who wanted to be a sailor. He lived at a time when ocean voyages took months, sometimes years. His life at sea was full of adventure and danger. He was the first to sail all the way around Australia. He drew the first complete map of the continent. Sailing was a dangerous business in Matthew's time that could end in shipwreck, disease or death. He wanted to make it safer for sailors by making his map as accurate as possible.
Author: Wilkinson, Carole, 1950-
1st edition.
Published: Abbotsford, Vic : Wild Dog, 2020.
37 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 31 cm.

Miles Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Non-Fiction - JNF 923.9 FLI - Available - W00148451

Busy beaks / Sarah Allen.

Spend the day with Australia's most vibrant and unique feathered friends. Full of splashing shorebirds, clattering cockatoos, parading penguins and greedy galahs, this book is the perfect introduction to birds of all shapes and sizes.
Author: Allen, Sarah (Illustrator)
Published: South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press Kids, 2020.
Published: ©2020
32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.

Tara Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - ALL - Available - W00182801

There's no such thing / Heidi McKinnon.

Bear can't sleep. Did you hear that? Did you feel that? What was it? It wasn't a hungry giant or a blood-sucking spider or a fire-breathing dragon because there is NO SUCH THING... Is there?
Author: McKinnon, Heidi
Published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin Children's Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Picture Book 2-3yrs - MAC - Available - W00182802

The stolen prince of Cloudburst / Jaclyn Moriarty ; illustrated by Kelly Canby.

A magical tale of mystery and adventure that proves that sometimes even ordinary middle children can be heroes. Long ago, the little prince of Cloudburst was stolen from the seashore by a Water Sprite. Now, ten years later, the prince has found his way home. The King and Queen are planning the biggest party in their Kingdom's history to welcome him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Kingdoms and Empires, Esther Mettlestone-Staranise is looking forward to another year at Katherine Valley Boarding School. But she arrives to find a number of strange and unsettling changes. For one, her new teacher is rumoured to be an Ogre. Two mysterious students have joined the school, and one of Esther's classmates is an undercover Spellbinder. Most disturbingly, the mountains surrounding the school - usually a delight of glaciers, teashops, lakes and Faeries - are now crowded with wicked Shadow Mages. As secrets and dangers escalate, Esther must find the answers to several puzzles. Why is her teacher behaving so oddly? Which of Esther's classmates is the Spellbinder, and can they really protect the school from gathering hordes of Shadow Mages? Could the Stolen Prince of Cloudburst be connected? How can Esther - who is not talented like her sisters, nor an adventurer like her cousin, but just Esther - save her family, her school and possibly her entire world?
Author: Moriarty, Jaclyn
Published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin Children's Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
535 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Kingdoms and empires book ; 03

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Fiction - J MOR - Available - W00182694

We are wolves / Katrina Nannestad with illustrations by Martina Heiduczek.

Sometimes it's good to be wild.Sometimes you have to be wild.When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of the war, the Wolf family must flee. Liesl, Otto and their baby sister Mia find themselves lost and alone, in a blizzard, in the middle of a war zone. Liesl has promised Mama that she will keep her brother and sister safe.But sometimes, to survive, you have to do bad things. Dangerous things. Wild things.Sometimes to survive, you must become a wolf.Bestselling author Katrina Nannestad returns with her most masterful novel yet -- a book to crack open your heart, a book to light you up inside, a book to love.
Author: Nannestad, Katrina
Published: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, 2020.
Published: ©2020
302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Chinchilla Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Fiction - J NAN - Available - W00182809
Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Junior Fiction - J NAN - Onloan - Due: 07 May 2024 - W00182808

When rain turns to snow / Jane Godwin.

Lissa is home on her own one afternoon when a stranger turns up on her doorstep carrying a baby. After her initial shock, she realises the stranger and baby desperately need her help. Reed and baby Mercy are on the run and his parents are trying to find him. He's trying to find out who he really is and thinks Lissa's mum might have the answer to all his questions. But, he's got the added complication of having to look after a baby - not something your average 13 year old knows how to handle. Reed's appearance stirs up some untold histories in Lissa's family and suddenly she's having to scrape through her past - all the while her brother is dealing with a devastating secret of his own. A moving coming of age story about finding out who you are in the face of crisis and change.
Author: Godwin, Jane, 1964-
Published: Sydney, N.S.W. : Lothian, 2020.
Published: ©2020
ix, 275 pages ; 20 cm.

Miles Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Young Adult Fiction - Y GOD - Available - W00182836
Tara Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Young Adult Fiction - Y GOD - Available - W00182828

Peta Lyre's rating normal / Anna Whateley.

At sixteen, neurodivergent Peta Lyre is the success story of social training. That is, until she finds herself on a school ski trip - and falling in love with the new girl. Peta will need to decide which rules to keep, and which rules to break…
Author: Whateley, Anna
Published: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Published: ©2020
237 pages ; 20 cm

Dalby Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Young Adult Fiction - Y WHA - Available - W00182737

The lost soul atlas / Zana Fraillon.

Loyalty is tested, and a cruel twist of fate leads to an act of ultimate betrayal in this epic story that spans a city, a decade, and the divide between life and death itself. Twig is all alone after his dad goes missing. But when he meets Flea, a cheerful pickpocket, the pair become fast friends. Together, Twig and Flea raise themselves on the crime-ridden streets, taking what they need and giving the rest to the even-poorer. Life is good, as long as they have each other. But then Twig wakes up in the Afterlife. With just a handful of vague memories, a key, a raven, and a mysterious atlas to guide him, he tries to piece together what happened, and to find his way home . . .
Author: Fraillon, Zana
Published: Sydney, N. S.W. : Lothian Children's Book, 2020.
Published: ©2020
353 pages : 1 map ; 21 cm.

Meandarra Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Young Adult Fiction - Y FRA - Available - W00182826

The end of the world is bigger than love / Davina Bell.

She said we didn't know what the world out there had become. We had been alone there so long on that tiny island, in that tiny church. But in the night, I couldn't bear it. My chest beat like wings. Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from a destroyed world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days deep in their mother's collection of classic literature - until a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality. At first, Edward is a welcome distraction. But who is he really, and why has he come? As love blooms and the world stops spinning, the secrets of the girls' past begin to unravel and escape is the only option. A sumptuously written novel of love and grief; of sisterly affection and the ultimate sacrifice; of technological progress and climate catastrophe; of an enigmatic bear and a talking whale - The End of the World Is Bigger than Love is unlike anything you've read before.
Author: Bell, Davina
Published: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2020.
Published: ©2020
268 pages ; 24 cm.

Miles Library - (Western Downs Libraries) - Young Adult Fiction - Y BEL - Available - W00182744