Children's Books
We're very proud of our children's section. We have an excellent range, including board books, picture books, beginning readers' chapter books, young adult novels, non-fiction reference books, pop-up books, audio books, popular series, classics, poetry, and children's fantasy. We stock best sellers as well as more unusual books, and are always keen to help find something to excite young readers.
We supply books to schools, so we are very familiar with what children are reading and enjoying, and we keep up to date with current Children's Book Council awards nominees and winners. We regularly host local and visiting children's writers at events, and we offer a 10% discount to Playgroup Association members, and a 15% discount to teachers and librarians on all shop purchases.
Ruby Redfort 1: Look into My Eyes
Lauren Child
HarperCollins ISBN 9780007334063
Hardback
2011
Price $AU 19.99
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Ruby Redfort: genius code-cracker, daring detective, and gadget-laden special agent who just happens to be thirteen-years-old .
She and her slick side-kick butler, Hitch, foil crimes and get into scrapes with evil villains, but they're always ice-cool in a crisis. Look into My Eyes covers Ruby's beginnings as an agent, when an anonymous caller sets Ruby a challenge. It's not long before she finds her way into the HQ of the most secret of secret agencies -- SPECTRUM. They need her help to crack a code but her desk job soon spirals into an all-out action adventure, as Ruby uncovers the dastardly plans of the formidable Fool's Gold Gang.
This is the first book in a new series by the author of the Clarice Bean and Charlie & Lola books. Suitable for ages 9 and up.
Christmas Wombat
Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
Angus & Robertson ISBN 9780732291716
Hardback
2011
Price $AU 24.99
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Christmas comes but once a year, and it's just as well for Santa's reindeer, who have to fight with Mothball for the carrots left out for them by the local children. And when Mothball takes an unexpected sleigh ride, it s not just Santa who faces the prospect of getting stuck in the chimney. Christmas from a wombat's eye view is always going to be interesting - especially when that wombat is Mothball.
Jackie French and Bruce Whatley have teamed up for a third 'Wombat' book, suitable for ages 3 and up.
The Jewel Fish of the Karnak
Graeme Base
Penguin ISBN 9780670074679
Hardback
2011
Price $AU 29.95
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Graeme Base, author of classics such as Animalia, The Eleventh Hour, and The Waterhole, is back with an new picture book set in Ancient Egypt. Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. In a merciful moment, the cat Pharaoh decides to give the friends one last chance. She tells them they must journey up the River Nile to the temple of Karnak and bring back something that has been taken from her - a beautiful and precious Jewel Fish.
Complete with hieroglyphics and sparkling jewels, here is a cautionary tale set amongst the wonders of an ancient world.
The Keepers 2: City of Lies
Lian Tanner
Allen and Unwin ISBN 9781742371962
Hardback
2011
Price $AU 22.99
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Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilful liar. She's supposed to be one of the keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt, along with her friend Toadspit. But although she desperately wants to be a keeper, her parents are ill and she will not leave them. Then Toadspit's sister Bonnie is stolen, and Goldie is forced into action. She will need all her skills as a thief and a liar if she is to survive and save her friends. But survive she must. Because the Fugleman has returned to Jewel, and the Fifth Keeper will soon be needed more than ever...
Too Small to Fail
Morris Gleitzman
Penguin ISBN 9780143306429
Paperback
2011
Price $AU 16.95
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What do you do when your mum, your dad and sixteen camels are in trouble and only you can save them? The sometimes sad but mostly funny story of a boy, a girl, a dog and four trillion dollars.
Morris Gleitzman is one of Australia's most popular children's authors, and has written over thirty books for young people of all ages.
The Three Doors 1: The Golden Door
Emily Rodda
Scholastic ISBN 9781862919129
Paperback
2011
Price $AU 16.99
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What terrors await Rye beyond the Golden Door?
Emily Rodda, author of the enormously popular Deltora Quest series, is back with the first book in a new trilogy. The walled city of Weld is under attack from ferocious flying creatures that raid in the night, bringing death and destruction. The Warden calls for Volunteers to find and destroy the Enemy sending the invaders, and the heroes of Weld answer the call one by one, never to return. Rye is officially too young to go, but his brothers are among the lost, and he must help them.
One Small Island
Coral Tulloch and Alison Lester
Penguin ISBN 9780670072361
Hardback 2011
Price AU$29.95
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Alison Lester's beautiful illustrations and Coral Tulloch's text offer a rich social, geological and ecological history of Macquarie Island, visually appealing for younger children, and complex enough for older children and adults to adore too.
The Dream of the Thylacine
Margaret Wild
Allen and Unwin ISBN 9781742373836
Hardback 2011
Price $AU 29.99
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The Dream of the Thylacine is a lament for a lost species, and a celebration of the Australian landscape. It interposes arresting text and images of the last known thylacine in a concrete cage with sweeping colour paintings of the animal in its natural environment. Intense, poetic and beautiful, this book will haunt you.
The Keepers 1: Museum of Thieves
Lian Tanner
Allen and Unwin ISBN 9781742376561
Paperback
2011
Price $AU 9.99
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'You're in the Museum now - and ANYTHING can happen!'
Goldie Roth lives in the city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime. But Goldie is both bold and impatient. She runs away to the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she meets a boy named Toadspit and discovers dangerous secrets. A monstrous brizzlehound stalks the museum's corridors, and only a thief can find the way through its strange, shifting rooms.
Lian Tanner is a children's author and playwright. She has worked as a teacher in Australia and Papua New Guinea, a tourist bus driver, a freelance journalist, a juggler, a community arts worker, an editor and a professional actor. It took her a while to realise that all of these jobs were really just preparation for being a writer.
Nowadays she lives by the beach in southern Tasmania, with a small tabby cat and lots of friendly neighbourhood dogs. She has not yet mastered the art of Concealment by the Imitation of Nothingness, but she is quite good at Camouflage.
The Hobart Bookshop was very excited to launch Museum of Thieves - the first book in the thrilling trilogy, 'The Keepers' - at the Bond Store at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. You can see some photos from the launch on our Past Events page. You can find out more about Lian, The Keepers, and Lian's other work at her website.
Museum of Thieves has also been published internationally!
Here's what the cover looks like in America:
And in Germany:
Henry the Goat
Ella Watkins
Hardie Grant Books 9781921690877
Paperback 2011
Price $AU 16.95
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Remember Henry, from Henry's Holiday? Well, he's back!
Henry is no ordinary goat. You have never met a more enthusiastic, positive goat. He has grand ideas and plans and a great confidence to attempt anything he can think of.
Ella Watkins started drawing Henry when she was eight, and now, seven years later, she's published her second book about him.
(Note: Henry the Goat toy now sold out.)