Come along for a free afternoon tea and meet best-selling author Sally Rippin, author of the hugely successful young fiction series Billie B Brown and Hey Jack .

Meet Billie B Brown! She's brave, brilliant and bold, and will become your best friend in no time. This series was created for girls who are desperate to begin reading chapter books, but are bored of the daggy school readers about children who say ‘bother’.

Billie B Brown’s best friend Jack finally tells his side of the story in his own spin-off series, Hey Jack!Hey Jack! is all about down-to-earth, real-life stories that boys can enjoy and relate to – without anything girly getting in the way. And Jack’s ginormous imagination injects the series with fun and humour.

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

When? Monday Afternoon May 27th

4-30-5-30pm

Afternoon Tea Provided.

Free but bookings are essential!

Meet local author Anne Naylor as she discusses her newly released memoir,

Art from Adversity: A Life with Bipolar.

Honest. Positive. Hopeful .

‘Art From Adversity: A Life With Bipolar’ is Anne Therese Naylor’s memoir and information guide to mental illness. She provides insights into what it is like to become mentally ill and what it takes to become well. Her artworks, both on the cover and woven throughout the book, illustrate the creativity that can come from adversity.

The key messages in the book are:

- Everyone knows someone
- Everyone has a story
- Positive things can come from adversity
- Diversity is one thing we all have in common
- There is a lot of stigma in society, especially about mental illness, but there is also a lot of support available
- Education is the key to understanding

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

When? Wednesday Evening June 5th

7-30-8-30pm

Champagne on Arrival

Free but bookings are essential!

  RSVP Essential, ph, 9481 8811. staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au

Meet Andrew Tink as he speaks about his new book

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government.
 

1940. Wartime Australia. Key members of Menzies' government die in a fiery plane crash. What went wrong and what happened next? In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a Hudson bomber – the A16-97 – carrying ten people, including three cabinet ministers, crashed into a ridge near Canberra. In the ghastly inferno that followed the crash, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over the next twelve months, it became clear that the passing of Geoffrey Street, Sir Henry Gullett and James Fairbairn had destabilised Robert Menzies’ wartime government. As a direct but delayed consequence, John Curtin became prime minister in October 1941. Controversially, this book also tells the story of whether Air Minister Fairbairn, rather than the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot Bob Hitchcock, had been at the controls. Andrew Tink tells an engrossing and dramatic tale of a little-known aspect of Australia’s political history.

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

When? Tuesday Evening June 25th

7-30-8-30

Champagne on Arrival.

Free but bookings are essential!

  RSVP Essential, ph, 9481 8811. staff@thechildrensbookshop.com.au

Author Belinda Murrell and Illustrator Serena Geddes who are launching a brand new series for young readers, a series about a young girl growing up behind a vet hospital.

Meet Lulu Bell. Where there's Lulu, there's family, friends, animals and adventures galore!
Lulu's dad, Dr Bell, is a busy vet, while her mum is an artist. The Bell family have lots of pets, including two dogs called Asha and Jessie, two ginger cats called Pickles and Pepper, some ducklings, and a rabbit. Their home in Manly is right behind the vet hospital, so Lulu helps her dad care for injured and orphaned animals including a baby possum and, in book one, a naughty runaway pony.

It's almost time for Lulu's little sister's birthday party. But there's a problem! A pony is running loose and Lulu and her dad, the local vet, have to rescue it. Can they find the pony? And what will happen if the naughty pony gets into more mischief at the party? It's lucky that Lulu has a plan! The first book in a new series from Random House.

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

A delightfully funny detective story for 6 to 8 year olds and a new kind of puzzle book from a bestselling duo working together for the first time.

Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every day he hears a terrible noise. What could it mean? Who could it be? There's only one guinea pig Coco can turn to to help him in his hour of need: his logic-loving cousin Alberta. Can Alberta help him unravel the mysteries of the perplexing pineapple?

About the Author

URSULA DUBOSARSKY is regarded as one of the most talented writers in Australia today. Her work ranges from multi-award-winning novels for older readers like Abyssinia, Theodora's Gift, The Red Shoe and the 2012 CBCA shortlisted The Golden Day to her highly-acclaimed and hilarious picture books with Andrew Joyner such as The Terrible Plop. Ursula has also collaborated with Tohby Riddle in their award-winning series that takes an entertaining journey through English language, The Word Spy and Return of the Word Spy. TERRY DENTON has written and illustrated many popular books, including Gasp! the breathtaking adventures of a fish left home alone (now an animated TV series), the madly inventive Storymaze series and his books for younger children about Wombat and Fox. He is also a long-time collaborator with bestselling author Andy Griffiths and their books, including The Cat on the Mat Is Flat, The Bad Book the hilarious

When? Saturday Morning June 8^th

10am-11 am (plus a Petting Zoo for the kids!)

Morning Tea Provided.

Free but bookings are essential!