Coming soon, two exciting new titles!

STORY TIME STARS: FAVOURITE CHARACTERS FROM AUSTRALIAN PICTURE BOOKS by Stephanie Owen Reeder

Story Time Stars is a celebration of around 60 much-loved characters from illustrated storybooks and picture books published in Australia from 1918 to 2018. This is the companion book to the major exhibition Story Time: Australian Children’s Literature, which will run from August 2019 to February 2020 at the National Library of Australia. The book provides entertaining information about a wide range of illustrated children’s books and the characters that star in them, from the irascible Magic Pudding and the delightful Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, to the elusive Green Sheep and the very rude Pig the Pug! Organised by decade, this is a book to dip into to catch up with your childhood favourites and to make new story-time friends.

Available September 2019, NLA Publishing $24.99

Pre-order at bookshop.nla.gov.au

TROUBLE IN THE SURF by Stephanie Owen Reeder, illustrated by Briony Stewart

The lavishly illustrated picture book Trouble in the Surf is based on the true story of budding aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his cousin Rupert Swallow. Aged just nine, the boys headed off to Bondi Beach for a swim on a hot summer’s day in 1907. What happened when they got caught in the Bondi rip nearly changed the course of Australian aviation history and contributed to the formation of the volunteer lifesaving movement in Australia.

Available October 2019, NLA Publishing $24.99

Pre-order at bookshop.nla.gov.au