Crystal longs to be a mermaid. So her mother makes her a flashing silver tail. But the tail doesn’t feel real enough, until the night Crystal wears it to bed

The Mermaid’s Tail: Puffin Nibbles

Caisley, Raewyn

Literature & Fiction

Puffin AU

Becky wants only fairy bread at her birthday party. But there’s so much left over, and she can’t just throw it away. So Becky thinks of some very unusual ways to deal with it!

Fairy Bread: Puffin Nibbles

DUBOSARSKY, URSULA

Nicholas Nosh is the littlest pirate in the world. H’s not allowed to go to sea, and he’s bored. Very bored. 'I’ll show them', he says.

The Littlest Pirate: Puffin Nibbles

Clark, Sherryl

They're back! A selection of your favourite titles from the bestselling Aussie Nibbles series, returning by popular demand with a fresh new look as Puffin Nibbles. Loved by kids, parents and teachers, these engaging stories are ready to delight a whole new audience of emerging independent readers aged 6-8 years. Sam wants a cat, but her family loves dogs. Then one night, through the rain pelting down on her tin roof, she hears a sharp mewing sound. Sam takes in the bedraggled kitten, but in the morning she finds it missing.

Puffin Nibbles: No Cat and That’s That

DAWE, BRUCE

Nobody was better at being bad than Buster Reed. But when he's very, very good, he becomes a hero and finds a special friend as well. Ages 8+.

Bad Buster: Puffin Nibbles

Laguna, Sofie

Loved by kids, parents and teachers, these engaging stories are ready to delight a whole new audience of emerging independent readers aged 6–8 years. Emma can't have a pet as she lives in an apartment. Her mum loves pot plants and encourages Emma to think of having a plant as a pet. Emma isn't interested until one day, when a low-flying bird drops a poo in an empty plant pot and her mum tells her if she waters it a poo plant might grow from the seeds in the bird's dropping. Emma enters her poo plant into the most unusual pet category of her class pet show.

My Amazing Poo Plant: Puffin Nibbles

Children's Books

Simons, Moya

Albert (Lengy) Lengviriyakul, is fed up with being Thai. His parents own a Thai restaurant with the cheesy name of Thai-riffic! and Lengy is sick of being his father's curry guinea pig, longing to just eat pizza! At school he is a bit of a troublemaker, going to any lengths to hide his background. But when his best friend decides to become Thai for a day for a school project, Lengy stubbornly comes to the realization that there may just be some pretty cool things about his culture.

Thai-riffic!

Phommavanh, Oliver

Growing Up & Facts of Life

It's one small step for nerds, one giant leap to being cool Mama tells me I'm gifted and talented. But I know the truth. I'm just a nerd. Kids call me Con-nerd—half Connor and all nerd. I'm supposed to become a doctor but i have this deep, dark secret: I want to be a cartoonist. And all of a sudden my mega-cool comics are getting noticed at school—I might even get into a special art class . That would sure impress this girl I'm keen on. . . and it might just be my chance to show the world my true destiny. But I'm not sure Mama will see it quite that way. . . Full of the signature laugh-out-loud humor seen in his fabulously funny Thai-riffic!, Oliver Phommavanh has produced yet another totally engaging and hilarious story about finding your own special talents and having the confidence to use them.

Con-nerd

Humor

It's 1918 . . . and Alice has never felt lonelier. Her father is missing at sea, her brother Teddy is away at war, and she's not allowed to speak to her best friend anymore. Alice tries to forget her worries by having a stall at the Apple Blossom Fair. But when strange events start happening in the town, everything goes wrong . . . Will the war ever be over, and will life for Alice ever be the same again? Follow Alice on her adventure in the second of four stories about a gifted girl in a time of war.

Alice and the Apple Blossom Fair (2) (Our Australian Girl)

Bell, Davina

Arts, Music & Photography

It's 1956 . . . and Lina dreams of being a writer, but her strict Italian parents have other ideas. Now that she's won a scholarship to an expensive girls school, Lina has other troubles, too. To fit in, she must keep her home life a secret, and even her best friend Mary can't know the truth. But how long can Lina keep her two worlds apart? Meet Lina and join her adventures in the first of four exciting stories about a passionate girl finding a place to belong.

Meet Lina (1) (Our Australian Girl)

Rippin, Sally

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