Read your way around Australia

Published on 25 November 2024

Read your way around...

Australia

Collect your ‘Around the World’ map from any library branch and read a book from each continent. You can scan the QR codes to find book lists from around the world or go hunting for your own. Record the names of the books you have read and return your form to any library branch.

Picture books

Walk with us by Adam Goodes

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Our flag, our story by Bernard Namok JNR

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The Echidna near my place by Sue Whiting

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Where the Forest meets the sea by Jeannie Baker

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Why I love Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft

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Country tells us when … by Tsheena Cooper

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Coming home to country by Bronwyn Bancroft

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Tiny: a little dog on a big adventure by Jennifer Castles

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Where the Lyrebird lives by Vikki Conley

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The Fire Wombat by Jackie French

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The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Paterson

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Penguin oh penguin by Gladys and Helen Milroy

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The big book of Australian nursery rhymes by Frane Lessac

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Junior

• Dirrarn by Carl Merrison

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• The broken rainbow by Tasma Walton

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• Uncle Xbox by Jared Thomas

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• Scout and the rescue dogs by Dianne Wolfer

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• Devils in danger by Samantha Wheeler

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• Kimmi: Queen of the dingoes by Favel Parrett

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• The littlest penguin by Jedda Robaard

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• The grandest bookshop in the world by Amelia Mellor

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• The horse who bit a bushranger by Jackie French

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• Outlaw girls by Emily Gale

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• Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd

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• Dirt by sea by Michael Wagner

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Non-fiction

• In my blood it runs by Dujuan Hoosan

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• Junior Atlas of Indigenous Australia

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• Our Country: where history happened by Mark Greenwood and Frane Lessac

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• The adventures of Tupaia by Courtney Sina Meredith and Mat Tait

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• Hello Australia by Megan McKean

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• The First Scientists by Corey Tutt

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Teen

Borderland by Graham Akhurst

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Future girl by Asphyxia

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The bone sparrow by Zana Fraillon

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Ghost bird by Lisa Fuller

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What's murder between friends by Meg Gatland-Veness

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The Gaps by Leanne Hall

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The boy from the mish by Gary Lonesborough

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Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta

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