Stories to Discover, Inspire and Connect

Meet The Illustrator: Hannah Powell Fryer

Name: Hannah Powell Fryer (HP Fryer) Describe your illustration style in ten words or less.…

Review: giwang: Weather & Wildlife On Wiradjuri Country

Review: The Girl and the Ghost Bk 2: Family Secrets

It isn’t long since Josephine (called Jet), and her family made the move from Australia…

12 Curly Questions with children’s author Larissa Ferenchuk

1. Tell us something hardly anyone knows about you.I once spent 10 nights out at…

Review: The Official Agatha Christie After School Detectives Club

The Official Agatha Christie After School Detectives Club is a fantastic puzzle book for kids,…

Guest Post: Danuza Silva on Heartbreak, Healing and Writing For Children

Gold Coast based children’s author Danuza Silva is on a mission to improve the mental…

Review: The Friendship Book

The collaboration of two brilliant creators brings us the visually expressive, The Friendship Book. It explores the…

Guest Post: Margrete Lamond on Gilbert’s Cake

Gilbert’s Cake is the story of our story … Readers often wonder where story ideas…

Review: The Aussie Christmas Mix Up

Review: The 113th Assistant Librarian #2 – Lost in a Book

Oliver Wormwood is Assistant Librarian in the magic library where nine cats keep watch and…

Junior Review: For No Mortal Creature

The novel For No Mortal Creature follows Jia Yi through her adventures in both the…

Review: This is Us – Essential Australian Poems for Young People

Review: No One is Home

Leo wants to spend the day with Kimbo, his best friend. He sets out to…

A Very KBR Christmas! 2025

It’s that time of the year again when the KBR team like to do their…

Review: An A-Z of Ocean Creatures

How many ocean creatures can you name? How many could you recognise? Your knowledge will…

Review: Powerful Like A Dragon

Review: Once I Was A Giant

I was fortunate enough to see the drafts and incomplete storyboard of Once I Was…

Review: Lottie Brooks Vs The Ultra Mean Girls

This book is one of those middle grade reads that this (ahem) middle-aged reviewer could…

Review: The AR in Sydney Harbour

Review: The Observologist

Review: Up, Up and Away: The History of Aviation

Those interested in the history, mythology and legends surrounding aviation will be impressed by this…

Junior Review: Maisy Hayes Is Not For Sale

Review: This Bird: Noticing Our Urban Birds

Review: Our Marvelous Memory