Collection: Junior Picture Books

12 Days of Bush Christmas is a children's picture book that adapts the lyrics of yuletide classic 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' with a festive Koorie spin. On the first day of Christmas, there's a kookburra laughing in a gum tree. On the second, a coolamon. What will 12 days of Christmas bring? ...

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: a partridge in a pear tree. Climb the partridge's pear tree to see all the weird and wacky Christmas gifts. How will the partridge cope as the pear tree fills up?

An elephant parent has to take responsibility for caring for all of the gifts that arrive in this newly illustrated version of the traditional song.

"Filled to the brim with goodies to find--from friendship bracelets to delicious chai sugar cookies to chunky cardigans and lots more. In a twist on the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," this picture book counts down from 13, describing various things that Taylor Swift might like, such as "10...

Seventeen kings on forty-two elephants going on a journey through a wild wet night... Join the kings and the elephants on their jungle journey, meeting new creatures as they dance and sing their way through the jungle. From one of New Zealand's most celebrated children's writers, this is Margaret...

The night before Christmas Eve, Santa could NOT sleep. So, a couple of his reindeer chums, said, "You should count some sheep!" Now, Santa's counted sheep before but something by the shelf made Santa want to NOT count sheep, and count gold buttoned... ELVES! What's the best way to help little one...

Twenty-two orphans succeed in fooling the new headmistress of their orphanage into thinking that it has been invaded by a fun-loving elephant, but when the elephant appears, the orphans disappear!

Captivating short stories make each day of Advent a special treat and ones children will look forward to as they count down to Christmas.

From how to make a friend and be one, standing up for yourself, the importance of looking up, Meg McKinlay provides the seeds of good advice and Nicky Johnston's illustrations prove to be the perfect examples, all wrapped up in a hardback edition. There are so many wonderful things to know, as yo...