CHILDRENS BOOKS

Taronga presents books for the wild little learners and explorers! Get ready to bounce, growl, splash and laugh along with your favourite Aussie animals!It's a noisy day for Aussie animals! With simple, musical rhyme and deliciously bright illustrations, children discover sounds and patterns along with some of Australia's most iconic animals.Kookaburra laughEmu dashLittle frog croakPlatypus . . . SPLASH!Where Knowledge Meets Fun!Discover animal facts with charming storytelling and gorgeous illustrations to pore over. These board books from Taronga will delight young readers again and again!- Vocabulary Expansion- learn new words and sounds the fun way!- Cognitive Development- discover pattern recognition and comparison skills, essential for early learning- Cultural Enrichment- foster a connection to the environment and wildlife with amazing animal facts!

From the award-winning Indigenous author-illustrator Ambelin Kwaymullina comes a wonderful story about having the courage to overcome fear to embrace change.There was once a caterpillar who lived all alone. Everything around Caterpillar seemed large and strange, and she was full of fear. Determined to escape any possible danger, Caterpillar hides away in the safety of her chrysalis. There, she finally discovers the inner strength she needs to truly live.Caterpillar and Butterfly is a beautiful tale about bravery and overcoming one's fears.

A beautiful First Nations picture book from the award-winning Indigenous creators Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, The Two-Hearted Numbat is an uplifting tale about identity and balancing the needs of others with your own.There was once a numbat who had two hearts. Numbat's first heart was a feather, and when he wore it he felt soft and gentle. His second heart was a stone, and when he wore it he felt powerful and strong. But it was troublesome to have two hearts. Numbat decided it would be better to have only one - but which heart should he choose?The Two-Hearted Numbat is an uplifting tale about identity, perfect for younger readers.

She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. She goes to school... She sleeps. She eats. She scratches - and finds a hole. When Mothball discovers a new hole, it unexpectedly leads her to the local school. the children learn that wombats love carrots and grass, while Mothball learns that lunch boxes contain very few carrots, that sports sheds can be a good place to have a nap, and that when you're brown and round, it's not a good idea to get too close to a ball ... Ages 3 years plus

Highlights the importance of kindness - to others, yourself and the planet. At Miss Molly's School of Kindness, three naughty fox cubs find out how to be kind to others, kind to themselves, and the importance of being kind to the planet. A perfect way to start conversations with children about kindness, with humour, a fun story, and a cast of lively animal characters.

Slither into the world of Spectacular Snakes with explorer and scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, Emma, as they shine the spotlight on one of the world's most beloved and surprising creatures! There's more to snakes than them being venomous and cold-blooded. Did you know a snake can still grow even when it hasn’t eaten for months? Or that snakes have flexible jaws that allow them to eat prey that’s much larger than them? Or that snakes are masters of disguise? With more than 3,700 sub-species around the world, there's a snake to delight and frighten every kind of reader, from Australia's deadly Eastern brown snake to the green anaconda, the heaviest snake in the world. Not to mention the teeny-tiny Barbados thread snake, which is half as long as a pencil! So come along on a fascinating expedition with the world-renowned scientist and explorer Tim Flannery and his daughter Emma as they explore the world’s weirdest, slitheriest reptile family. This gorgeous large format picture book comes with lush, full-colour illustrations from renowned illustrator Katie Melrose, gold foil and tactile grain lamination on the cover that feels like snakeskin – making it the perfect gift for animal lovers and ophiophilists (people who love reptiles) alike! And according to the Chinese Zodiac, it's published in the Year of the Snake too!Discover more fascinating creatures in Tim Flannery's other picture books:<ul><li>Sensational Sharks</li><li>Extraordinary Elephants</li><li>Jiggliest Jellyfish</li><li>Spectacular Snakes</li></ul>

Galahs love to boogie and act like a clown, They always pull faces or hang upside down. As soon as they hatch and crawl from their egg, Galahs are hilarious ... and then ... there was Greg. Everyone knows that galahs are hilarious. They’re silly, loud and love attention! But then there’s Greg ... who’s nothing like the rest of the flock.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling children’s book creator Matthew Van Fleet. An Amazing ABC Safari for Preschoolers! In Matthew Van Fleet's incredible multiconcept book, over 100 creatures and plants from A to Z hilariously demonstrate action words, synonyms, opposites, and more. Young explorers are challenged to spot four plants or animals that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Twenty-three textures plus foils, flaps, pull tabs, and even a scratch-and-sniff scent add to the interactive surprises on every page. Also includes a removable full-color alphabet poster for learning fun!

Discover over 200 sea-tastic ocean animal facts!Seek and find incredible ocean animals by lifting the flaps and using the magic card searchlight to discover hidden pictures and learn hundreds of fascinating facts.With friendly and easy-to-understand, informative text and vibrant full colour artwork on every page, this amazing and unique under-the-sea fact book will delight all children, and will provide a perfect introduction to the wild and wonderful underwater world of ocean animals for new and expert animal fans everywhere.Features lift-the-flaps, over 200 facts and three magic searchlight seek and find scenes.

Discover over 200 roar-tastic animal facts!Seek and find incredible wild animals by lifting the flaps and using the magic card searchlight to discover hidden pictures and learn hundreds of fascinating facts.With friendly and easy-to-understand, informative text and vibrant full colour artwork on every page, this amazing and unique animal fact book will delight all children, and will provide a perfect introduction to the wild and wonderful awesome world of animals for new and expert animal fans everywhere.Features lift-the-flaps, over 200 facts and three magic searchlight seek and find scenes.

Giggle your way through this book with touch, feel and tickle fun!Touch, feel and tickle the friendly ocean animals in this interactive book that is full of fin-tastic playful fun!There are four friendly ocean animals for you to tickle on each page as you follow the felt trails with your finger. Die-cuts in the pages reveal bright felt finger trails to touch, feel and follow to tickle each creature and make them laugh, giggle and snap!The bright and bold illustrations will captivate young readers, who will want to touch, feel and tickle the ocean animals as they read the funny rhyming words. The felt pages make these books light to hold and perfect for toddlers and children to pick up, read and play with!'Can You Tickle a Tiger?' voted winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize (2023), for 'best book for sharing with children aged 0-5.' - BookTrust.

Giggle your way through this book with touch, feel and tickle fun!Touch, feel and tickle the friendly bears in this interactive book that is full of bear-y playful fun!There are four friendly bears for you to tickle on each page as you follow the felt trails with your finger. Die-cuts in the pages reveal bright felt finger trails to touch, feel and follow to tickle each animal and make them laugh, giggle and roar!The bright and bold illustrations will captivate young readers, who will want to touch, feel and tickle the animals as they read the funny rhyming words. The felt pages make these books light to hold and perfect for toddlers and children to pick up, read and play with!'Can You Tickle a Tiger?' voted winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize (2023), for 'best book for sharing with children aged 0-5.' - BookTrust.

From the bestselling creator of CBCA Shortlisted Australia: Country of Colour comes a new board book range celebrating Australia and introducing first concepts for babies and toddlers.

Swapna lives in New Zealand with her karate-chopping, swash-buckling son and her thirty-something, age-sensitive husband. She spends her time writing, eating cake and making sure her son doesn't flatten her husband as he attempts to master his human cannonball trick. Sometimes she does all three at the same time. She landed her first book deal when she won the Greenhouse Funny Prize for her children's story 'Dave Pigeon', which was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards 2016, the Leicester Libraries Our Best Book Award 2017 and the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2017.A children's book author and illustrator from Taiwan, based in the UK since 2020, Yiting graduated with a master's in Children's Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art in 2012. She focuses on picture books, delivering whimsical and unpredictable stories, and likes to keep the story simple and the illustration full because she knows children love looking into those details like she did. In her illustration, she mainly uses watercolour, gouache, ink, colour pencils and whatever else she has newly discovered.

From New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Andrew Joyner comes a moving picture book about a brave little lion who decides to speak out for stories by standing up to book banning. Libraries and lions have a history so long no one’s quite sure how it began—maybe because books were once rare and needed fierce protectors? Still, it’s been a very long time since lions had to roar in the name of books. But when young Julius finds out that books are being banned at his local library, he becomes so filled with emotion that he ROARS! Not all lions are librarians, but all librarians are lions in this inspiring tale of protecting the stories that connect us and defending books that hold ideas that can change the world. - Resources in this edition have been adapted for Australia and New Zealand.