Premier's Reading Challenge 2008
21 April to 30 September
BOOKLIST
GRADES 1-2
Title - Author
A-D
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| The 10 best things about my dad | Loomis, Christine |
| 19 girls and me | Pattison, Darcy |
| 3 Billy Goats Gruff | Dewan, Ted |
| 5 little ducks | Straw,Wendy |
A
| Aaaarrgghh, spider! | Monks, Lydia |
| ABC zoo | Campbell, Rod |
| Across the stream | Ginsburg, Mirra |
| Advance Australia Fair | McCormick, P D (Peter Dodds) |
| The adventures of Edgar Remington the Third | Moreton, John |
| After dusk | Greenwood, Ted |
| Ahhh! said stork | Rose, Gerald |
| Albert | Yamamoto, Lani |
| Albert and Sarah Jane | Doyle, Malachy |
| Albert's old shoes | Muir, Stephen |
| Albie | Cutbill, Andy |
| Alex and Roy | Dickinson, Mary |
| Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day | Viorst, Judith |
| Alexander, who used to be rich last Sunday | Viorst, Judith |
| Alexander, who's not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) going to move | Viorst, Judith |
| Alex's outing | Dickinson, Mary |
| Alfie's long winter | McEvoy, Greg |
| Ali Baba and the forty thieves | Early, Margaret |
| Ali the Bold Heart | Jolly, Jane |
| Alice & Anatole | Childs, Sam |
| Alice and the birthday giant | Green, John F. |
| All afloat on Noah's boat! | Mitton, Tony |
| All in one piece | Murphy, Jill |
| All on the sea | Dickinson, Stephen |
| Alligator alphabet | Blackstone, Stella |
| Alpha quest | Whatley, Bruce |
| Alphabet wings | Kresner, Ilana |
| Always | Pignataro, Anna |
| Always Arthur | Graham, Amanda- |
| Amanda's dinosaur | Orr, Wendy |
| Amelia Ellicott's garden | Stafford, Liliana |
| Amy & Louis (and any other titles) | Gleeson, Libby |
| Amy's bed | Klein, Robin |
| Amy's place | Stafford, Marianne |
| And Kangaroo played his didgeridoo | Gray, Nigel |
| And kookaburra laughed | Croser, Josephine |
| Andy : an Alaskan tale | Welsh-Smith, Susan |
| Angel breath | Millard, Glenda |
| The angel with a mouth-organ | Mattingley, Christobel |
| Angelina series | Holabird, Katharine |
| Angie the brave (and any other titles) | Odgers, Sally Farrell, 1957- |
| Angry Arthur | Oram, Hiawyn |
| Angus and the ducks | Flack, Marjorie |
| Animal babies in polar lands | Schofield, Jennifer |
| Animal babies in rainforests | Schofield, Jennifer |
| Animals awake while you are asleep | Nottingham, Felicity |
| Anna's ghost | Gray, Nigel |
| Annie's chair | Niland, Deborah |
| Annie's goose | Tyrrell, Anne |
| Anno's journey (and any other titles) | Anno, Mitsumasa |
| The ant army | James, Lisa |
| Antarctic dad | Edwards, Hazel |
| Anyone seen Harry lately? | Oram, Hiawyn |
| The apple-pip princess | Ray, Jane |
| Arabella | Orr, Wendy |
| Aranea : a story about a spider | Wagner, Jenny |
| Are you hungry? | Burke, Tina |
| Are you my mother? | Eastman, P. D. (Philip D.) |
| Are you there, bear? | Maris, Ron |
| Arnold the prickly teddy | Lardner, Kym |
| Around the house the fox chased the mouse | Walton, Rick |
| Around the world with Miss Jones and Miss Brown | Thomas, Valerie |
| Arthur | Graham, Amanda |
| At the beach : postcards from Crabby Spit | Harvey, Roland |
| At the seaside | Church, Diane |
| At the vet | Lamb, Ann |
| Augustus and his smile | Rayner, Catherine |
| Augustus hatches an egg | Epstein, June |
| Auntie Rosie and the rabbit | Noonan, Diana, 1960- |
| The Aussie A to Z | McKenzie, Heath |
| An Aussie night before Christmas | Morrison, Yvonne |
| Australia at the beach | Fatchen, Max |
| The Australian ABC | Thiele, Colin, 1920- |
| The Australian twelve days of Christmas | McKenzie, Heath |
| Away! Away! | Hunt, Julie |
| Ayu and the perfect moon | Cox, David |
B
| Baby | Cox, Tania |
| Baby Bear goes to the zoo | Broekstra, Lorette |
| Baby bilby, where do you sleep? | Oliver, Narelle, 1960- |
| Baby Brains and robomum | James, Simon |
| Baby Brains superstar | James, Simon |
| Baby turtles new world | Parish, Steve |
| The baby who wouldn't go to bed | Cooper, Helen |
| Babysitter bear | Jordan, Sherryl |
| Babysitter bother | Cowley, Joy |
| The backyard time detectives | Suzuki, David T |
| Bad bear detectives | Pinkwater, Daniel Manus |
| A bad case of stripes | Shannon, David |
| A bad week for the three bears | Bradman, Tony |
| Badly drawn dog | Dodson, Emma |
| The bad-tempered ladybird (and any other titles) | Carle, Eric |
| A bag full of pups | Gackenbach, Dick |
| The balloon tree | Gilman, Phoebe |
| Bamboozled | Legge, David |
| Bartholomew and the bug | Layton, Neal |
| The bat and the crocodile : an Aboriginal story | Dolumyu, Jacko |
| Bath monster | Danalis, John |
| The bay | Bacon, Ronald Leonard |
| Beach pirates | Brian, Janeen |
| Bear and Chook | Shanahan, Lisa |
| The bear in the room next door | Mewburn, Kyle |
| The bear with bad eyes | Smith, Keith |
| Bear's adventure | Blathwayt, Benedict |
| The beast at the beach | Stevens, Kathleen |
| The beast in the bathtub | Stevens, Kathleen |
| A bee in Ben's bonnet | McKinnon, Ferg |
| Beetles and bugs | Harley, Diana |
| Belvedere dreaming | Ryan, Kate |
| Ben and the bear | Riddell, Chris |
| Ben's big book of cars | Blathwayt, Benedict |
| The Berenstains' B book (and any other titles) | Berenstain, Stan |
| Bernice knows best | Dann, Max, 1955- |
| Bertie at the horse show | Alger, Elizabeth |
| The best beak in Boonaroo Bay | Oliver, Narelle, 1960- |
| The best chip | Leake, Kate |
| The best dog in the world | Moss, Miriam |
| Bet you can't | Dale, Penny |
| Beware, take care | Treloar, Bruce |
| Bidibidi | Bishop, Gavin |
| Big Anthony and the magic ring (and any other titles) | De Paola, Tomie |
| A big ball of string | Holland, Marion |
| The big ball of string | Mueller, Ross |
| The big big sea | Waddell, Martin, 1941- |
| The big block of chocolate | Slater Redhead, Janet |
| Big brave Brian | Robertson, M P |
| Big brother, little brother | Dale, Penny |
| The big bunny and the easter eggs | Kroll, Steven |
| The big bunny and the magic show | Kroll, Steven |
| The big dark | Prater, John |
| Big nuisance | Morimoto, Junko |
| Big Panda, Little Panda | Stimson, Joan |
| Big rain coming | Germein, Katrina |
| Big red bath | Jarman, Julia |
| The biggest number in the universe | Leibrich, Julie |
| The biggest pumpkin ever | Kroll, Steven |
| The biggest sandwich ever | Gelman, Rita Golden |
| The Bilbies' first Easter | Sibley, Irena |
| Bilby moon | Spurling, Margaret |
| Bilby's burrow | Johnson, Rebecca |
| Bill in a china shop | Weaver, Katie |
| Billy the punk | Carroll, Jessica |
| Billygoat goes wild | Horniman, Joanne |
| Billy's beetle | Inkpen, Mick |
| The biography of Gilbert Alexander Pig | Cresp, Gael |
| Bird | Lodge, Annette |
| The bird who was an elephant | Kamal, Aleph |
| Birk the berserker | Klein, Robin |
| Birthday party | Church, Diane |
| Birthday yo-yo | Burke, Shirley |
| Bits and pieces | Berrett, Rebecca |
| Bittle | MacLachlan, Patricia |
| Black dog | Mattingley, Christobel |
| Black skin, white cow | Bernasconi, Pablo |
| Black? white! day? night! : a book of opposites | Seeger, Laura Vaccaro |
| Blooming cats | Morgan, David R |
| Blossom Possum the sky is falling down under | Newton, Gina M. |
| Blue gum ark | Chapman, Jean |
| Bo Bandicoot at the market | Isham, Stephen E. |
| The boastful bullfrog | Faulkner, Keith |
| The boat | Ward, Helen |
| Bob the builder & the elves | Rodda, Emily, 1948- |
| Bollygum | Fleming, Garry |
| Boo! | McNaughton, Colin |
| Boris and Borsch | Klein, Robin |
| Boris Monster, scared of nothing | Laguna, Sofie |
| Boris the bat | Dickins, Robert |
| Boris the riverbank artist | Riddell, Bruce |
| Boss for a week | Handy, Libby |
| The Boxing Day test | Whillis, Sharon |
| The boy on the bus | Dale, Penny |
| The boy who built the boat | Mueller, Ross |
| The boy who cried wolf | Littledale, Freya |
| The boy who painted the sun | Morris, Jill |
| The boy, the bear, the baron, the bard | Rogers, Gregory |
| Brat cat | Hutchins, Elizabeth |
| Brave Charlotte | Stohner, Anu |
| Brave with Ben | Mattingley, Christobel |
| The bravest penguin of all | Foti, Rina A. |
| Breakfast with Buddha | Farrer, Vashti |
| Brian Banana Duck Sunshine Yellow | McKimmie, Chris |
| Brodie | Cowley, Joy |
| Broken bird | Broad, Michael |
| Bromley climbs Uluru | Campbell, Alan |
| Brown bear in a brown chair | Hale, Irina |
| Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? | Martin, Bill |
| Buck and his truck | French, Vivian |
| The bugliest bug | Shields, Carol Diggory |
| Bumblebee pie | Gadsby, Jon |
| Bumpus jumpus dinosaurumpus | Mitton, Tony |
| The Bungarra five | Barrymore, Josephine |
| The bunyip of Berkeley's Creek | Wagner, Jenny |
| Burger boy | Durant, Alan |
| Bus fuss | McCuaig, Sandra |
| Bush babies | Dale, Kim |
| A bush birthday | Nilsson, Eleanor, 1939- |
| The bush jumper | Chapman, Jean |
| Bushfire | Hann Syme, Marguerite |
| Bushfire | Oktober, Tricia |
| Bushranger Bill | De Kantzow, Megan |
| Buster's zoo | Campbell, Rod |
| But I am an alligator | Child, Lauren |
| The butcher, the beagle and the dog catcher | Mattingley, Christobel |
| Butterflies | Harley, Diana |
| The butterfly | Carr, Roger Vaughan, 1937- |
C
| Ca-a-r ca-a-a-a-r | Havel, Geoff |
| The call of the Osprey | Jorgensen, Norman |
| Camille and the sunflowers (and any other titles) | Anholt, Laurence |
| Can you catch a mermaid? | Ray, Jane |
| Can you cuddle like a koala | Butler, John, 1952-, |
| Can't you sleep, little bear? | Waddell, Martin, 1941- |
| Captain Abdul's pirate school | McNaughton, Colin |
| Captain Teachum's buried treasure | Paul, Korky |
| A carp for Kimiko | Kroll, Virginia |
| Carrot in my pocket | Flynn, Kitson |
| Carrot soup | Segal, John |
| Caruso's song to the moon | Jaunn, Adele |
| The cassowary's egg | Fleming, Garry |
| Cat and fish | Grant, Joan |
| Cat and fish go to see | Grant, Joan |
| Cat and mouse : the hole story | Fox, Christyan |
| A cat and mouse story : an old tale | Rosen, Michael, 1946- |
| Cat and Mum story | Lalonde, Shirley |
| Cat balloon | Morgan, Palo |
| Cat goes to sea | McLean, Andrew |
| Catkin : the curious kitten | De Fossard, Esta |
| Cat's cake | Fowler, Richard |
| Cat's cuddles | Cabrera, Jane |
| Cats' whiskers | McLean, Jane |
| Catterpillar, butterfly | French, Vivian |
| Centipede's 100 shoes | Ross, Tony |
| Charlie and the chocolate factory : an abridged version of the original best-loved story | Dahl, Roald |
| Charlie at the zoo | Pfister, Marcus |
| Charlotte and the lion | Maxey, Jane |
| Chatterbox (and any other titles) | Wild, Margaret, 1948- |
| The cheese trap | Cowley, Joy |
| The cherry dress | Honey, Elizabeth |
| Cherry pie | Killeen, Gretel |
| Cherryblossom and the golden bear | Freeman, Pamela |
| A chick called Saturday | Dunbar, Joyce |
| Chipper the cheetah | Latta, Jan & Resnick, Jon |
| Chomp! | Denton, Terry, 1950- |
| Christmas bear | Russell, Georgina |
| A Christmas carol (and any other titles) | Dickens, Charles |
| Christmas kitten | French, Vivian |
| The Christmas miracle of Jonathan Toomey | Wojciechowski, Susan |
| Christmas trolls | Brett, Jan |
| The church mice at Bay | Oakley, Graham |
| The church mouse | Oakley, Graham |
| Cinderella | Fitchett, Gordon |
| Clancy the courageous cow | Hume, Lachie |
| Clara caterpillar | Edwards, Pamela Duncan |
| Clarice Bean that's me | Child, Lauren |
| Claydon was a clingy child | Cowell, Cressida |
| The clever clever cats | Todd, HE |
| Clever pigs and the handy robot | Thwaites, Lyndsay |
| Clifford's happy Mother's Day (and any other titles) | Bridwell, Norman |
| Clumsy crab | Galloway, Ruth |
| A coat of cats | Kroll, Jeri |
| The coat-hanger horse | Lardner, Kym |
| The cocky, the crow and the hawk | Nicholls, Christine |
| Come away from the water Shirley (and any other titles) | Burningham, John |
| Come on Daisy | Simmons, Jane |
| Come the terrible tiger | Gamble, Kim |
| Coming to tea | Garland, Sarah |
| The complete adventures of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943 |
| Congl : a little Mt Lyell magic | McCauley, Judy |
| Cookie's week | Ward, Cindy |
| Corduroy | Freeman, Don |
| Cornelius : a fable | Lionni, Leo |
| Counting on Frank | Clement, Rod |
| The cow who clucked | Fleming, Denise |
| The cow who fell in the canal | Krasilovsky, Phyllis |
| Cowardly Clyde | Peet, Bill |
| Cowboy kid | Eilenberg, Max |
| Cowtime! | Barnes, Kim (Kim John) |
| The crime of the agent-mariner | Santaklaus, Pia |
| Crocodile beat | Jorgensen, Gail |
| Cromwell's glasses | Keller, Holly |
| The crow and Mrs Gaddy | Gage, Wilson |
| Crow and the waterhole | Kwaymullina, Ambelin |
| Crumbs! | Wright, Cliff |
| Crunch the crocodile | Croser, Josephine |
D
| Dabble Duck | Ellis, Anne Leo |
| A dad who measures up | Cali, Davide |
| Daddy's having a horse | Shanahan, Lisa |
| Dad's bug bear | Dixon, Peter |
| Daisy the doctor | Brooks, Felicity |
| Dancing night, tonight | Bone, Ian, 1956- |
| Dancing the boom-cha-cha boogie | Oliver, Narelle, 1960- |
| The dangerous deep | Goldman, Leslie |
| Danny in the toybox | Tulloch, Richard |
| Dan's grandpa | Morgan, Sally |
| Darby the donkey | De Fossard, Esta |
| The dark at the top of the stairs | McBratney, Sam |
| A dark dark tale | Brown, Ruth |
| Dashing through the (snow) sand | Brzezinski, Monica |
| A day in the life of me | Marsden, John |
| The day Jimmy's boa ate the washing | Noble, Trinka Hakes |
| Day of the dragon | Heimann, Rolf |
| Dear baby : letters from your big brother | Sullivan, Sarah |
| Dear fish | Gall, Chris |
| Dear zoo | Campbell, Rod |
| The deep | Winton, Tim, 1960- |
| The deliverance of dancing bears | Stanley, Elizabeth |
| Derek, the dinosaur | Blackwood, Mary |
| Detective Donut and the wild goose chase | Whatley, Bruce |
| A devilish tale | Hansen, Alice |
| Dial-a-croc | Dumbleton, Mike |
| Diary of a wombat | French, Jackie |
| Dig dig digging | Mayo, Margaret |
| Digging to China | Rawlins, Donna |
| Dinnertime | Weld, Ann |
| Dinnertime! | Argent, Kerry |
| The dinosaur | Milbourne, Anna |
| Dinosaur days | Manning, Linda |
| The dinosaur deli | Fenner, Melissa |
| Dinosaur dreams (and any other titles) | Ahlberg, Allan |
| Dinosaur encore | Mullins, Patricia |
| Dinosaur garden | Donnelly, Liza |
| Dinosaur roar | Stickland, Paul |
| The dinosaur who invented things | Salmon, Michael |
| Dinosaurs and all that rubbish (and any other titles) | Foreman, Michael |
| The dinosaurs are back and it's all your fault Edward! | Hartmann, Wendy |
| Dirty Bertie | Roberts, David |
| Dirty Dave the bushranger | Harvey, Roland |
| Dizzy and friends (and any other title) | Flowers, Tony |
| Do like a duck does | Hindley, Judy |
| A dog called Bear | Murray, Martine |
| Dog in, cat out | Rubinstein, Gillian, 1942- |
| Dog tales | McLean, Janet |
| Dogger (and any other titles) | Hughes, Shirley |
| Dogs' night | Hooper, Meredith |
| Doing the washing | Garland, Sarah |
| Dolphin's triumph | Johnson, Rebecca |
| A donkey did it! | Haeusler, Merril |
| Don't be a bully, Billy : a cautionary tale | Cox, Phil Roxbee |
| Don't be greedy, Graham | Cox, Phil Roxbee |
| Don't do that! | Ross, Tony |
| Don't forget Granny | Dugan, Michael, 1947- |
| Don't get burnt! or The great Australian day at the beach | Bedson, Jack |
| Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! (and any other titles) | Willems, Mo |
| Don't tell lies, Lucy! : a cautionary tale | Cox, Phil Roxbee |
| Doodledum dancing | Costain, Meredith |
| Dorothy's rosy tea party | Bouchet, Bruno |
| A dose of Dr. Dog (and any other titles) | Cole, Babette |
| Dougal the garbage dump bear | Dray, Matt |
| Down by the cool of the pool | Mitton, Tony |
| Down on the farm | Kutner, Merrily |
| Down the back of the chair (and any other titles) | Mahy, Margaret |
| Dragon in the garden shed | McRae, Rodney |
| The dragon who couldn't help breathing fire | Bond, Denis |
| Dragonquest (and any other titles) | Baillie, Allan, 1943- |
| Dragon's breath | Dugan, Michael, 1947- |
| The dragon's purpose | Baynton, Martin |
| Dragor, or, How a dragon suffering from prickly heat saved the world from perpetual winter and established a well-known weed- | Quinn, Pat |
| The dream collector | Harrison, Troon |
| The dream dragon (and any other titles) | Winer, Yvonne |
| Dreaming of Antarctica | Godwin, Jane |
| Droo | Hill, Barbara |
| Drought | Oktober, Tricia |
| The Drover's dog | Cox, David |
| The drover's dream | Niland, Deborah |
| Duck | Watts, Barrie |
| Duck cakes for sale | Lunn, Janet |
| The duck catcher | Aaron, Moses, 1944- |
| Duckat | Gordon, Gaelyn |
| Dump bear | Hessell, Jenny |
| Dunbi the owl | Lofts, Pamela |
| Dust : save the children | Thompson, Colin |
