Random House Australia: 1821 books

A junior fiction series written in partnership with Netball Australia Meet Maddy and her friends from the Gems! Maddy can't wait to play her first game of netball with her new team. She's been training hard and is eager to try out her skills. But Maddy's excitement soon turns to nerves...

Nine little dingos howl at the moon . . . Ten little owls hoot a goodnight tune. What happens around Australia when the sun goes down? The cutest little animals come out to play, of course. Teach your own little critter to count to ten in this beautiful board book featuring baby native animals running, hopping, swimming, eating and playing from dusk to dawn.

It's time for a wedding at Penberthy House! Clementine Rose is thrilled! There's a giant tent in the back garden and guests arriving by the car load. A wedding at Penberthy House is just the thing her mother needs to help pay for the much needed new roof. But amid the excitement Uncle Digby...

An ivory rose charm is the beginning of a terrifying adventure in 1890s Sydney in this gothic ghost story - another thrilling time slip tale for girls from best-loved author Belinda Murrell. Jemma has just landed her first job, babysitting Sammy. It's in Rosethorne, one of the famous witches'...

Another great read from one of Australia's greatest authors A kidnapping? Rival gangs? Ransoms? What's happening in Coolini Beach? All the teenagers in Coolini Beach use the expression 'cool bananas'; life is pretty relaxed and free and easy but what does it mean when police crime tape is found...

A junior fiction series written in partnership with Netball Australia Does Sienna still have time to play for the Gems? Sienna is crazy about netball, especially playing Goal Keeper. But Sienna's other passion is horse-riding, and when her Uncle loans her a beautiful palomino to ride...

Among all those legendary bushrangers, heroic explorers, genius inventors and upstanding politicians in Australian history, aren't there some duds in the pack? Of course there are! Paul Stafford has rounded up all the dingbats, dropkicks and disasters in our glorious past. All together now,...

Find out where it all began for Ellyse Perry, Australia's most prominent sportswoman! CBCA Notable book for Younger Readers, 2017 All Ellyse wants to do is play sport. Cricket, soccer, touch footy, athletics - you name it! But now that she's in high school, playing sport and having fun...

A very funny Tom Weekly story from the slightly warped brains of the author and illustrator of My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up. Think your grandpa's angry? Think again. I'm Tom Weekly and my Pop is the angriest grandpa in Australia. The world, maybe. He hates nurses, harmless marine mammals...

A junior fiction series about an up-and-coming cricketer who is mentored by Australian cricket star Glenn Maxwell. Will Albright has conquered Australia, but can he conquer the world? Will and his Australian teammates are travelling to England, the home of cricket, to take on the best of the...

A First World War novel of love, peace, violence and Antarctica Adelaide, 1916, and Dora Somerville grieves for her brother, Edgar, killed in France. In the course of an oppressively hot summer, she decides to abandon her pacifist beliefs and embrace violence as a means to end the Great War. In...

With vibrant photography and innovative, inspiring recipes for meat, fish, vegetables and desserts, Four Kitchens is about celebrating good eating every day and bringing delicious, quality dishes to the home kitchen. Dublin-born*, My Kitchen Rules* guest judge, Colin Fassnidge has quickly established...

Australia's first MasterChef Julie Goodwin shares with you seven of her favourite recipes she loves to cook for family and friends. For Julie Goodwin, food is so much more than sustenance. It is a happy celebration of family and friends. In Seven Family Favourite Recipes, Julie handpicks seven...

In March 1918, with the fear of a one-million-man American army landing in France, the Germans attacked. In response, Australian soldiers were involved in a number of engagements, culminating in the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux and the saving of Amiens, and Paris, from German occupation. Then...