Premier's Reading Challenge 2008
21 April to 30 September
BOOKLIST
GRADES 1-2
Title - Author
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| I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed | Child, Lauren |
| I am so strong | Ramos, Mario |
| I am the King | Timmers, Leo |
| I am too absolutely small for school | Child, Lauren |
| I can draw animals | Gibson, Ray |
| I can draw people | Gibson, Ray |
| I do it | Daddo, Andrew |
| I don't like having my hair cut | Rich, Penny |
| I don't like new shoes | Rich, Penny |
| I don't want a cold! | Ross, Tony |
| I don't want to go to bed | Ross, Tony |
| I know a rhino | Fuge, Charles |
| I like myself! | Beaumont, Karen |
| I love boats | McDonnell, Flora |
| I love spiders | Parker, John |
| I love you always and forever | Emmett, Jonathan |
| I meant to clean my room today | Nerlove, Miriam |
| I spy a dinosaur's eye | Marzollo, Jean |
| I wanna be famous | Whatley, Bruce |
| I want a sister | Ross, Tony |
| I went walking | Williams, Sue |
| I wish I had a dinosaur | Anggabrata, Ian |
| I wish I liked rice pudding | Dunbar, Joyce |
| I wish I were a dog | Monks, Lydia |
| I won't say please! | Kelly, Mij |
| Ice flowers | Goetze, Jutta |
| The idle bear | Ingpen, Robert |
| If you're happy and you know it | Cabrera, Jane |
| I'll always love you | Wilhelm, Hans |
| I'll see you in the morning | Jolley, Kiersten |
| I'll take you to Mrs Cole! | Gray, Nigel |
| I'll teach my dog 100 words | Frith, Michael K. |
| I'm coming to get you! | Ross, Tony |
| I'm hungry | Campbell, Rod |
| I'm not cute | Allen, Jonathan, 1957- |
| I'm not scared | Allen, Jonathan, 1957- |
| I'm not scary | Campbell, Rod |
| I'm really ever so not well | Child, Lauren |
| I'm sorry | McBratney, Sam |
| I'm tyrannosaurus! : a book of dinosaur rhymes | Marzollo, Jean |
| Imagine a day | Thomson, Sarah L |
| Imagine you're an elephant | McAuley, Stephen |
| Impossible pets | Morecroft, Richard |
| In my backyard (and any other titles) | Hilton, Nette |
| In Redfern | Gordon, Angelica |
| In the middle of the night | Henderson, Kathy |
| In the tall, tall grass | Fleming, Denise |
| In the year of the tiger | Duke, Selina Li |
| In your dreams | Morgan, Sally |
| The incompetent dragon | Elliott, Janice |
| Is anyone hungry? | Pavey, Peter |
| A is for antechinus | Lleonart, Mark |
| A is for Aunty | Russell, Elaine |
| Is it bedtime Wibbly pig? | Inkpen, Mick |
| Is it true, Grandfather? | Lohse, Wendy |
| The island | Heffernan, John |
| An island in the sun | Blackstone, Stella |
| It's lovely when you smile | McBratney, Sam |
| It's one world | Hocking, Geoff |
| It's raining, it's pouring | Eagle, Kin |
| It's so unfair! | Thomson, Pat, 1939- |
| It's the bear! (and any other titles) | Alborough, Jez |
| It's time for school, Stinky Face | McCourt, Lisa |
| The itsy bitsy spider | Trapani, Iza |
| I've been eating blackberries | Trussell-Cullen, Alan |
| I've been to Africa | Lebkowski, Sylvia |
| I've got a secret | Evans, Betty |
| The ivy | Dale, Christine |
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| Jack and the beanstalk | Beer, Barbara Vagnozzi |
| Jack and the beanstalk | Walker, Richard |
| Jack in a box | Jarman, Julia |
| Jake | King, Deborah |
| James was waiting : a story of adoption | Clark, Judith (Judith I) |
| Jane and the dragon | Baynton, Martin |
| Jennifer & Nicholas | Lock, Kath |
| Jeremy's tail | Ball, Duncan, 1941- |
| Jerome the babysitter | Christelow, Eileen |
| Jessica Joan | Orr, Wendy |
| Jezza | Bell, Krista |
| Jillian Jiggs | Gilman, Phoebe |
| Jillian Jiggs to the rescue | Gilman, Phoebe |
| Jim and the beanstalk (and any other titles) | Briggs, Raymond |
| Jimmie Jean & the turtles | Dwyer, Christina |
| Jimmy's boa bounces back | Noble, Trinka Hakes |
| Jody's beans | Doyle, Malachy |
| Joey | Kent, Jack |
| Joey the Roo | Isham, Marion |
| John Brown, Rose and the midnight cat | Wagner, Jenny |
| Johnson : the shark who loves to eat outboard motors | Vernon, Dez |
| Jonah and the Manly ferry | Gouldthorpe, Peter |
| Josephine wants to dance | French, Jackie |
| Joseph's boat | Macdonald, Caroline |
| Josh | McLean, Janet |
| Josh and the ducks | McLean, Janet |
| Josh and the monster | McLean, Andrew |
| Journey from the centre of the earth | Carmody, Isobelle, 1958- |
| Judy and the volcano | Harris, Wayne |
| Juice the pig | Oborne, Martine |
| Jump baby! | Matthews, P. E. (Penelope) |
| Jump! | Lavis, Steve |
| Jungle blues | Flint, Shamini |
| Junkyard dogs | Balderson, Margaret |
| Just a little brown dog | Morgan, Sally |
| Just another ordinary day | Clement, Rod |
| Just like you and me | Miller, David |
| Just the right stripes | Gray, Nigel |
| Just you and me | McBratney, Sam |
| Just you wait! | De Kantzow, Megan |
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| Kaito's cloth | Millard, Glenda |
| Kangaroo and the porpoise | Lofts, Pamela |
| Kangaroos' Cancan Café | Jarman, Julia |
| Kangaroos' lucky escape | Johnson, Rebecca |
| Katherine and the garbage dump | Morris, Martha |
| Katherine rose says no | Dowrick, Stephanie |
| Keeper | Durrell, Gerald |
| Kenju's forest | Morimoto, Junko |
| Kermit the hermit | Peet, Bill |
| Kestrel | Svendsen, Mark Nestor |
| The kinder hat | Loh, Morag |
| The King with horse's ears | Maddern, Eric |
| The King's cat | Tarlton, John |
| Kipper | Inkpen, Mick |
| Kipper's Christmas eve | Inkpen, Mick |
| Kipper's toybox | Inkpen, Mick |
| The kiss that missed | Melling, David |
| Kisses for daddy | Watts, Frances |
| Kitten's first full moon | Henkes, Kevin |
| The knight who took all day | Mayhew, James |
| Knit one purl one | Webster, Chris |
| Knock knock who's there? | Small, Mary |
| The koala who bounced | Thomson, Jim |
| Koala's big day | Johnson, Rebecca |
| Kojuro and the bears | Morimoto, Junko |
| Kolah the koala | Latta, Jan & Resnick, Jon |
| Kookaburra school | Morris, Jill |
| The kuia and the spider | Grace, Patricia |
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| A ladder to the stars | Puttock, Simon |
| The lady down the road | Morris, Jill |
| The lady with the alligator purse | Westcott, Nadine Bernard |
| The lamb-a-roo | Kimpton, Diana |
| The last circus | Thompson, Colin |
| The last clown | Thompson, Colin |
| Laura's star | Baumgart, Klaus |
| Lazy Jack | French, Vivian |
| Leaf jumpers | Gerber, Carole |
| Leaves for Mr Walter | Brian, Janeen |
| Leaving | Germein, Katrina |
| The legend of Moondyne Joe | Greenwood, Mark |
| Lena the lion | Latta, Jan & Resnick, Jon |
| Lenny and tweek | Baumgart, Klaus |
| Leonardo : pigeon of Siena | Hansen, Ian |
| Leonardo's dream | De Beer, Hans |
| Lester and Clyde | Reece, James H (James Herbert) |
| Let's eat! | Zamorano, Ana |
| Let's escape | Dumbleton, Mike |
| Let's go home, Little Bear | Waddell, Martin, 1941- |
| A letter for Leah | Thomas, Casey |
| A letter to Father Christmas | Impey, Rose |
| Letters from Felix | Langen, Annette |
| Life with Loopy | Butterworth, Libby |
| The light house keeper's lunch (and any other titles) | Armitage, Ronda |
| Limpopo lullaby | Jolly, Jane |
| A lion at bedtime | Gliori, Debi |
| Litterbugs | Harris, Diana |
| The little Aussie adventurers | Parker, Natalie Jane |
| Little Aussie adventurers on a rainforest quest | Forbes, Anita |
| Little Baa | Lewis, Kim |
| Little bat | Cox, Tania |
| Little bear lost | Hissey, Jane |
| Little Bear's Grandad | Gray, Nigel |
| Little big mouth (and any other titles) | Willis, Jeanne |
| Little brown bushrat | Ripper, Georgie |
| The little crooked Christmas tree | Cutting, Michael |
| Little elephant Thunderfoot | Grindley, Sally |
| The little engine that could | Piper, Watty |
| Little falcon | Goetze, Jutta |
| Little Kay | Muller, Robin |
| Little Lucie's diary | Pfanner, Louise |
| Little Miss Lucky and the naughty pixies | Hargreaves, Adam |
| Little Miss Spider at Sunny Patch School | Kirk, David |
| Little Miss Splendid and the princess | Hargreaves, Adam |
| The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear | Wood, Don |
| Little Mouse's big book of fears | Gravett, Emily |
| Little one step | James, Simon |
| Little piggies | Morgan, Paul |
| Little rabbit's loose tooth | Bate, Lucy |
| Little red bear | Matthews, P. E. (Penelope) |
| Little red train to the rescue | Blathwayt, Benedict |
| Little Tawny | Dale, Kim |
| Little white dogs can't jump | Whatley, Bruce |
| The little yellow digger | Gilderdale, Betty |
| The little yellow digger saves the whale | Gilderdale, Betty |
| Lizzie and Smiley : five stories for young children | McClelland, Julia |
| Lizzie nonsense (and any other titles) | Ormerod, Jan |
| Lizzie's invitation | Keller, Holly |
| Lola Koala and the ten times worse than anything | Blaustein, Muriel |
| Long Neck and Thunder Foot | Piers, Helen |
| The long way home | Rodda, Emily, 1948- |
| Long-Long's New Year : a story about Chinese Spring Festival | Gower, Catherine |
| Look out, he's behind you! | Bradman, Tony |
| Look out, Patrick! | Geraghty, Paul |
| Look, there's a hippopotamus in the playground eating cake | Edwards, Hazel |
| Looking for crabs | Whatley, Bruce |
| Lost and found | Jeffers, Oliver |
| The lost thing | Tan, Shaun |
| Louisa May Pickett, the most boring person in class | Clement, Rod |
| Louise builds a boat | Pfanner, Louise |
| Lousing about | Calvert, Shirley |
| The lucky old woman | Muller, Robin |
| Lucy's cat and the rainbow birds | Hill, Anthony |
| Luke's way of looking | Wheatley, Nadia |
| Luurnpa, the magical kingfisher | Napangarti, Bai Bai |
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| Mab goes camping | Goetze, Jutta |
| Madeline | Bemelmans, Ludwig |
| Madge McGinty's urgent delivery | Trussell-Cullen, Alan |
| Madlenka | Sis, Peter |
| Maggie and the pirate | Keats, Ezra Jack |
| The magic fish | Littledale, Freya |
| The magic pudding | Martin, S. R. |
| The magic saddle | Mattingley, Christobel |
| The magic school bus : inside a beehive | Cole, Joanna |
| The magic school bus at the waterworks | Cole, Joanna |
| The magic school bus gets cold feet : a book about warm-and cold-blooded animals | West, Tracey, 1965- |
| The magic school bus in the time of the dinosaurs | Cole, Joanna |
| Maisy goes to hospital (and any other titles) | Cousins, Lucy |
| Malcolm's runaway soap | Bogart, Jo Ellen |
| Malu kangaroo : how the first children learnt to surf | Morecroft, Judith |
| Mama Panya's pancakes | Chamberlain, Mary |
| A man and his camel | Bertini, Jo |
| The man who loved boxes | King, Stephen Michael |
| Mango makes music | McSpedden, Bani |
| Marine life for young readers series | Swatz, Stanley |
| Matilda and the dragon | Burnside, Julian |
| Matthew's monsters | Jordan, Sherryl |
| Max counts his chickens (and any other titles) | Wells, Rosemary |
| Max meets a monster | Hawkins, Tracey |
| Me and my Mum | Heiss, Anita |
| Me and Priscilla get ready | Schreiber, Aunty Deanna |
| The meaning of ripe | Merchant, Simon |
| Meet the monsters | Fatchen, Max |
| Meg and Mog (and any other titles) | Nicoll, Helen |
| Meggie's magic | Dean, Anna |
| Meltdown | Ker Wilson, Barbara |
| Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine | Vincent, Gabrielle |
| Midge, Mum and the neighbours | Cummings, Phil, 1957- |
| Midnight at the museum | Wolfe, Richard (Richard John) |
| The midnight farm | Lindbergh, Reeve |
| The midnight man | Doherty, Berlie |
| Miffy (and any other titles) | Bruna, Dick |
| Mighty Mountain and the three strong women | Hedlund, Irene |
| The migrant mouse | Smith, Keith |
| Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel | Burton, Virginia Lee |
| Mike's birthday bulldozer | Bodsworth, Nan |
| Milli, Jack and the dancing cat | King, Stephen Michael |
| Millie | Marsden, John |
| Millions of cats | Gag, Wanda |
| Milly Fitzwilly's mousecatcher | Vaughan, Marcia K |
| Milo and the magical stones | Pfister, Marcus |
| Minton goes driving and trucking (and any other titles) | Fienberg, Anna |
| Miss Moo goes to the zoo | Graves, Kelly |
| Miss Spider's new car | Kirk, David |
| Miss Spider's tea party | Kirk, David |
| Mister Magnolia (and any other titles) | Blake, Quentin |
| Mog in the dark | Kerr, Judith |
| Mog the forgetful cat | Kerr, Judith |
| Mog's amazing birthday caper | Kerr, Judith |
| Moi & Marie Antoinette | Cullen, Lynn |
| Molly makes music | Robenstone, Penny |
| Mona the vampire | Holleyman, Sonia |
| The monster in my bathroom | Faulkner, Keith |
| The monster mystery | Jorgensen, Gail |
| The monster shop | Beech, Julie |
| The monster who ate Australia | Salmon, Michael |
| A monster wrote me a letter | Bland, Nicholas |
| Monty mouse looks for adventure | De Fossard, Esta |
| Monty's journey | Geraghty, Paul |
| Moon bear rescue | Dale, Kim |
| The moon in the man | Honey, Elizabeth |
| Moose's loose tooth | Clarke, Jacqueline |
| The most colourful frog in the world | Morris, Julie D |
| The most obedient dog in the world | Jeram, Anita |
| Mother Goose remembers | Beaton, Clare |
| The mouse and the egg | Mayne, William |
| The mouse bride | Cowley, Joy |
| The mouse that danced | Beames, Margaret |
| Moving house | Civardi, Anne |
| Moving house | Hunter, Rebecca |
| Mr Bear's holiday | Gliori, Debi |
| Mr Bodger's jumping hat | Cunningham, Andy |
| Mr Bump and the knight | Hargreaves, Adam |
| Mr Happy and the wizard | Hargreaves, Adam |
| Mr Knuckles | Dumbleton, Mike |
| Mr Little's noisy car | Fowler, Richard |
| Mr Ouchy's first day | Hennessy, BG |
| Mr Pusskins and Little Whiskers | Lloyd, Sam |
| Mr Rabbit and the lovely present | Zolotow, Charlotte, 1915- |
| Mr Wolf's week | Hawkins, Colin |
| Mrs Gaddy and the fast-growing vine | Gage, Wilson |
| Mrs Honey's hat | Adams, Pam |
| Mrs Honey's tree | Adams, Pam |
| Mrs McTats and her houseful of cats | Capucilla, Alyssa Satin |
| Mrs Millie's painting | Ottley, Matthew |
| Mrs Pepperpot's busy day | Proysen, Alf |
| Mrs Wiggins' wartymelons | Millard, Glenda |
| Mrs Wilkinson's chooks | Peguero, Leone |
| Ms Johnstone to the rescue | King, Karla |
| Muddled-up farm | Dumbleton, Mike |
| Musical Harriet | Costain, Meredith |
| Mustara | Hawke, Rosanne |
| Mutt dog! | King, Stephen Michael |
| My amazing dad | Collins, Ross |
| My big book of animals | Voce, Louise |
| My book | Maris, Ron |
| My brown bear Barney | Butler, Dorothy |
| My cat Jack | Casey, Patricia |
| My cat likes to hide in boxes | Sutton, Eve |
| My cat Maisie (and any other titles) | Allen, Pamela |
| My daddy and me | Flynn, Rachel |
| My dog | Heffernan, John |
| My dog | Taylor, Judy |
| My dog Mab | Goetze, Jutta |
| My dog, my cat, my mum and me! | Gray, Nigel |
| My dog's a scaredy-cat | Ball, Duncan, 1941- |
| My friend whale | James, Simon |
| My Gran's different | Lawson, Sue |
| My hen is dancing | Wallace, Karen |
| My hippopotamus is on our caravan roof getting sunburnt | Edwards, Hazel |
| My king has donkey ears | Harber, Frances |
| My little star | Bingham, Janet |
| My mum and dad make me laugh | Sharratt, Nick |
| My mum goes to work | Gray, Kes |
| My mum Tarzan | Shanahan, Lisa |
| My mummy and me | Flynn, Rachel |
| My patch : celebrating our shared discoveries of the land | Smit, Nel |
| My place | Wheatley, Nadia |
| My place in space | Hirst, Robin |
| My sister Gracie | Johnson, Gillian |
| My tooth is about to fall out | Maccarone, Grace |
| My very first Mother Goose | Opie, Iona (ed) |
| My wobbly tooth must not ever never fall out | Child, Lauren |
| My yellow blanky | Laguna, Sofie |
