Premier's Reading Challenge 2008
21 April to 30 September
BOOKLIST
GRADES 1-2
Title - Author
S-Z
S
| The sad little monster & the Jelly Bean Queen | Lardner, Kym |
| Sage's ark | Marshall, Felicity |
| The saggy baggy elephant | Jackson, Kathryn |
| Sam and the tigers : a new telling of Little Black Sambo | Lester, Julius |
| Sam the chef | Brooks, Felicity |
| Samantha Seagull's sandals (and any other titles) | Winch, Gordon, 1930- |
| Sam's cat | Garland, Sarah |
| Sam's the name | Garland, Sarah |
| Samsara dog | Manos, Helen |
| Sanji and the baker | Tzannes, Robin |
| Santa's Aussie holiday | Farrer, Maria |
| Saturday night at the dinosaur stomp | Shields, Carol Diggory |
| A sausage went for a walk | Majid, Ellisha |
| Say cheese | Child, Lauren |
| Say hello | Foreman, Jack |
| Scallywag | Rowe, Jeannette |
| Scaredy-cat fish | Donovan, Gail |
| Scary bear | Cox, Tania |
| Scholastic's The magic school bus going batty : a book about bats | Krulik, Nancy E |
| The school that went to sea | Waddell, Martin, 1941- |
| The screaming mean machine | Cowley, Joy |
| Scruff sheep | Church, Caroline |
| The Sea-Breeze Hotel | Vaughan, Marcia K (Marcia Kay) |
| Seadragon sea | Spurling, Margaret |
| Seal | Allen, Judy |
| Seal pup | Goetze, Jutta |
| The search for Fred Beaney | Ryan, Kate |
| Sebastian lives in a hat | Catterwell, Thelma |
| Secrets of the rainforest | Dunkle, Margaret |
| See food | Kuchling, Guundie |
| See mouse run | Grindley, Sally |
| The selfish crocodile | Faustin, Charles |
| The seventh unicorn | Barber, Shirley |
| The shack that Dad built | Russell, Elaine |
| The Shaggy Gully times : the funniest newspaper you'll ever read | French, Jackie |
| Shark in the park! | Sharratt, Nick |
| The shark who was afraid of everything! | James, Brian |
| Sharon, keep your hair on | Rubinstein, Gillian, 1942- |
| Sheep dogs | Bedson, Jack |
| Sheep shape | Vaughan, Marcia K |
| The ship's cat and the sea dogs | Holroyd, Angela |
| Shock Monday | Bradshaw, Gillian |
| The shoemaker and the elves | Birrer, Cynthia |
| Shoo cat | Bone, Ian, 1956- |
| The shopping expedition | Amstutz, Andre |
| Silly Billy (and any other titles) | Browne, Anthony |
| Silly galah! | Brian, Janeen |
| Silly Mummy, silly Daddy | Fitzpatrick, Marie-Louise |
| Silly school | Fitzpatrick, Marie-Louise |
| Silly Willy : a traditional tale | Hanzl, Anne |
| Silverskin | Kuchling, Guundie |
| The singing hat | Riddle, Tohby |
| Sisi and the cassowary | Meeks, Arone Raymond |
| Six dinner Sid | Moore, Inga |
| The six wonders of wobbly bridge | Smyth, Gwenda |
| Sky boy | Lehmann, Geoffrey |
| Slam dunk Tim | Searle, Rick |
| Sleeping Beauty | Fitchett, Gordon |
| Sleepy Pendoodle | Doyle, Malachy |
| Sleepy time Olie | Joyce, William |
| The smallest hero | Rogerson, Gillian |
| Smiley Shark | Galloway, Ruth |
| Smudge | French, Jackie |
| Snail | Watts, Barrie |
| The snail and the cherry tree | Dalgleish, Joan |
| Snail mail | Edwards, Hazel |
| Snap! | Manning, Mick |
| Snap! went Chester | Cox, Tania |
| Snow bear | Stafford, Liliana |
| The snow child : a Russian folktale | Littledale, Freya |
| Snow play | Turner, Gwenda, 1947- |
| Snow White and the seven dwarfs | Littledale, Freya |
| Snow woman | McKee, David |
| Snowie Rolie | Joyce, William |
| So few of me | Reynolds, Peter, 1961- |
| So shy | Morrison, Vicki |
| Sock Monkey rides again | Bell, Cece |
| The sock monster | Melenhorst, Glenn |
| Solo | Geraghty, Paul |
| Someone bigger | Emmett, Jonathan |
| Something from nothing | Gilman, Phoebe |
| Sometimes I feel like a mouse : a book about feelings | Modesitt, Jeanne |
| Sometimes I like to curl up in a ball | Churchill, Vicki |
| Sophie's masterpiece : a spider's tale | Spinelli, Eileen |
| The sound of the sea | Harvey, Jacqueline |
| Special days with Honey and Bear | Dubosarsky, Ursula, 1961- |
| Spider's first day at school | Kraus, Robert |
| Splash the platypus | Johnson, Rebecca |
| Splat! | Denton, Terry, 1950- |
| Spooks | Hawkins, Colin |
| Spookyrumpus | Mitton, Tony |
| Squeak Street | Rodda, Emily, 1948- |
| Squeak-a-lot | Waddell, Martin, 1941- |
| Squish! | Denton, Terry, 1950- |
| The staircase cat | Thompson, Colin |
| Stanley goes fishing | Frazier, Craig |
| Stanley goes for a drive | Frazier, Craig |
| Stanley mows the lawn | Frazier, Craig |
| The steadfast tin soldier (and any other titles) | Andersen, Hans Christian |
| The steam train crew | McLean, Andrew |
| Stefania's dancing slippers | Beck, Jennifer |
| Stella Louella's runaway book | Ernst, Lisa Campbell |
| Stella, star of the sea | Gay, Marie-Louise |
| Stellaluna | Cannon, Janell |
| Stephen's music | Laguna, Sofie |
| The stew that grew | Gray, Michael |
| Stickybeak | Edwards, Hazel |
| The stone elephant | Stafford, Liliana |
| Stone soup | McGovern, Ann |
| The stone swan | Bell, Helen |
| The Stopwatch | Lloyd, David |
| Stories from our house | Tulloch, Richard |
| Stories from our street | Tulloch, Richard |
| The story about Ping | Flack, Marjorie |
| A story for Bear | Haseley, Dennis |
| The story of Ferdinand | Leaf, Munro |
| The story of Rosy Dock (and any other titles) | Baker, Jeannie |
| The story of Rumpelstiltskin (and any other titles) | Amery, Heather |
| The story of the little mole who knew it was none of his business | Holzwarth, Werner |
| The straw maid | Lobel, Anita |
| The strongest man in Gundiwallanup | Tulloch, Richard |
| Suddenly! | McNaughton, Colin |
| The sugar-gum tree | Wrightson, Patricia, 1921- |
| Summer | Factor, June |
| The summer ball | Evans, Fran |
| Sun, sea, crab and me | Gray, Nigel |
| Sunny faces | Kroll, Jeri |
| Switch cat | Disher, Garry |
| The sword in the stone | Maccarone, Grace |
| Sydney of the Antarctic | Tulloch, Coral |
T
| T. Rex | French, Vivian. |
| Tails from grandad's attic | Whatley, Bruce |
| Taking a bath with the dog and other things that make me happy | Menchin, Scott |
| A tale of Antarctica | Glimmerveen, Ulco |
| The tar dragon | Orwin, Joanna |
| Taraba: Tasmanian aboriginal stories | Ransom, Rosemary |
| The Tasmanian devil | Reilly, Pauline |
| Tasmanian traveller | Isham, Stephen E. |
| Tawny scrawny lion | Jackson, Kathryn |
| The teddy bears' picnic | Kennedy, Jimmy |
| Teddybears go shopping | Gretz, Susanna |
| Teddybears moving day | Gretz, Susanna |
| Tell me a story before I go to bed | McBratney, Sam |
| Tell me a story, Mummy | Norac, Carl |
| Ten out of bed | Dale, Penny |
| Ten sleepy sheep | Keller, Holly |
| Ten thousand sheep (get driven home) | Scheding, Stephen |
| The terrible underpants | Cooke, Kaz |
| The terrible wild grey hairy thing | Chapman, Jean |
| Tessa the teacher | Brooks, Felicity |
| Thank you for my yukky present | Hooper, Meredith |
| That pesky rat | Child, Lauren |
| There was a cold lady who swallowed some snow! | Colandro, Lucille |
| There was an old lady who swallowed a fly | Adams, Pam |
| There was an old lady who swallowed a fly | Simms, Taback |
| There was an old lady who swallowed the sea | Adams, Pam |
| There's a dinosaur in the park! | Martin, Rodney |
| There's a dragon in my closet | Green, John F. |
| There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake | Edwards, Hazel |
| There's an alligator under my bed | Mayer, Mercer |
| There's something in my attic | Mayer, Mercer |
| Thingnapped! | Klein, Robin |
| Things | Gray, Michael |
| This and that | Sykes, Julie |
| This is our house | Rosen, Michael, 1946- |
| This is the bear | Hayes, Sarah |
| This is the bear and the picnic lunch | Hayes, Sarah |
| This is the bear and the scary night | Hayes, Sarah |
| This is the reef | Moss, Miriam |
| This old man | Adams, Pam |
| This way, Ruby! | Emmett, Jonathan |
| Thomas comes to breakfast (and any other titles) | Awdry, W. (Wilbert) |
| Thora and the incredible crystals | Johnson, Gillian |
| Threadbear | Inkpen, Mick |
| The three billy goats gruff | Finch, Mary |
| The three little diggers : a modern day scarytale (for children to read to adults) | Jones, Ronald |
| Three little kittens | Marzollo, Jean |
| The three little wolves and the big bad pig | Trivizas, Eugene |
| The three stragglers | Roberts, Beth |
| The three wishes | Melling, David |
| Tickling tigers | Currey, Anna |
| Tickly Christmas, Wibbly pig! | Inkpen, Mick |
| Tick-tock | Dunbar, James |
| Tiddalick : the frog who caused a flood | Roennfeldt, Robert |
| Tiddles : the special Tassie devil | Lawes-Gilvear, Nita |
| Tiger tale | Isham, Marion |
| Tiger trail : a Tasmanian epic | Gambles, Harriet |
| Tikki Tikki Tembo | Mosel, Arlene |
| Tilly's rescue | Jaques, Faith |
| Timba the tiger | Latta, Jan & Resnick, Jon |
| Time for bed, Isobel | Bedford, David |
| Time to get dressed! | Savadier, Elivia |
| The tiny kite of Eddie Wing | Trottier, Maxine |
| The tip at the end of the street | Riddle, Tohby |
| To tell the truth | Farmer, Patti |
| To the goldfields! | Tonkin, Rachel |
| Tobias and the dragon | Biro, Val |
| Tommy's pet | Kuchling, Guundie |
| Tom's friend | Reynolds, Pat |
| Too loud Lily | Laguna, Sofie |
| Too many pears! | French, Jackie |
| Tough old teddy | Atherton, Bruce |
| The tough princess | Waddell, Martin, 1941- |
| Town mouse, country mouse | Brett, Jan |
| Tree ring circus | Rex, Adam |
| A treeful of pigs | Lobel, Arnold |
| Tremendous tractors | Mitton, Tony |
| The trip | Keats, Ezra Jack |
| The trouble with dogs (and any other titles) | Graham, Bob |
| The trouble with elephants | Riddell, Chris |
| A true person | Marin, Gabiann |
| Trumpet's kittens | Polizzotto, Carolyn |
| Try again Sally Jane | Diestel-Feddersen, Mary |
| Tucker's mob | Mattingley, Christobel |
| Tucking Mummy in | Loh, Morag |
| Tuesday | Wiesner, David |
| Turtle - taxi | Kuchling, Guundie |
| Turtle's song | Brown, Alan |
| Turtle's song | Toft, Kim Michelle |
| The two bullies | Morimoto, Junko |
| Two summers | Heffernan, John |
| Two tough teddies | Niland, Kilmeny |
| The two wallabies | Jakamarra, Henry Cook |
| Tyger! Tyger! | Stanley, Elizabeth |
U
| The ugliest dog in the world | Whatley, Bruce |
| The ugly duckling | Moore, Lilian |
| Ugly fish | LaReau, Kara |
| Uhu : (pronounced Yoo-Hoo) | Macarthur-Onslow, Annette |
| Uncle Albert's seal | Claridge, Romie |
| Under my bed there lives a tiger by Rosalind Gardner ; illustrated by Betty Brownlie | Gardner, Rosalind |
| Unforeseen circumstances | Ryan, Anne |
| The unhappy goldfish | Dallimore, Paul |
| Unplugged! | Millard, Glenda |
| Up, down, and around | Ayres, Katherine |
| Upsy down town | Shoshan, Beth |
V
| V for vanishing : an alphabet of endangered animals | Mullins, Patricia |
| Vampires | Hawkins, Colin |
| Verdi | Cannon, Janell |
| The very blue thingamajig | Oliver, Narelle, 1960- |
| The very greedy bee | Smallman, Steve |
| A very important story | Kingston, Julie |
| The very lazy ladybird | Finn, Isobel |
| The very long nose of Jonathan Jones | Fatchen, Max |
| The very ordinary caterpillar | Fleming, Garry |
| The very sniffy dog | Letchford, Peita |
| Vicky the vet | Brooks, Felicity |
| Victoria's market | Macnab, Nan |
| Victoria's market | McNab, Nan |
| The violin man | Thompson, Colin |
| A visit to fairyland | Barber, Shirley |
| The voyage of the Poppykettle | Ingpen, Robert |
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| Waiting for Billy | Jacka, Martin |
| Waiting for mum | Lunn, Helen |
| Waiting for Sunday | Blackburn, Carol |
| Walking through the jungle | Lacome, Julie |
| Walking to school | Turner, Ethel, 1872-1958 |
| Walnut and George: a Tasmanian fantasy adventure | Werner, Nanette |
| Walter the farting dog | Kotzwinkle, William |
| Warnayarra : the rainbow snake | Lajamanu School |
| Warner, don't forget | Seligman, Lynn |
| Was that Christmas? | McKay, Hilary |
| The watchduck | Dalgleish, Joan |
| The watchmaker who saved Christmas | Whatley, Bruce |
| The water hole (and any other titles) | Base, Graeme, 1958- |
| The waterdragon and the magpie-goose | Fleming, Garry |
| The way I love you | Bedford, David |
| We all went on safari, a counting journey through Tanzania | Krebs, Laurie |
| We are best friends (and any other titles) | Anholt, Catherine |
| Wednesday was even worse | Clark, Sherryl |
| Well done, little bear | Waddell, Martin, 1941- |
| Well I never! | Eyles, Heather |
| We're going on a bear hunt | Rosen, Michael, 1946- |
| Weslandia | Fleischman, Paul |
| Wet cats | Gelman, Rita Golden |
| Wetlands | Oktober, Tricia |
| Whacko the chook | Svendsen, Mark Nestor |
| Whale is stuck | Fuge, Charles |
| Whale song | Hopson, Jennifer |
| The whalers | Mumbulla, Percy |
| The whales' song | Sheldon, Dyan |
| What a catastrophe! | Campbell, Wayne |
| What am I? | Dale, Kim |
| What are friends for? | Grindley, Sally |
| What do we do with Dawson? | Greenwood, Ted |
| What Faust saw | Ottley, Matthew |
| What is the sun? | Lindbergh, Reeve |
| What made Tiddalik laugh : a dreamtime story from Australia | Troughton, Joanna |
| What peculiar people! | Butler, Dorothy |
| What sort of day? | Heinrich, Sally |
| What the sky knows | Bourke, Nicole A |
| What was the war like, Grandma? : Emmy remembers World War II | Tonkin, Rachel |
| What we count then and now | Empacher, Helen |
| What will I do if I can't tie my shoe? | Kilgras, Heidi |
| What will I do without you? | Grindley, Sally |
| What-a-Mess in winter | Muir, Frank |
| Whatever next | Murphy, Jill |
| What'll we get for grandma? | Killeen, Gretel |
| What's for lunch? | Miller, David |
| What's that awful smell? | Tekavec, Heather |
| What's that noise? | Roennfeldt, Mary |
| What's that noise? What's that sound? | Lurie, Morris |
| What's the time, Rory Wolf? | McClure, Gillian |
| The wheels on the bus | Straw, Wendy |
| When Brian was a lion | Weston, Carrie |
| When elephants lived in the sea | Godwin, Jane |
| When Giddy's been acting the goat | Jacks, Lynette |
| When I grow up | McNaughton, Colin |
| When I was a baby | Niland, Deborah |
| When I was a kid | Tonkin, Rachel |
| When I'm big | Gliori, Debi |
| When I'm feeling happy | Moroney, Trace |
| When pigs fly | Coulman, Valerie |
| When Poppy and Max grow up | Gardiner, Lindsey |
| When the buffalo wakes | Johnson, Penelope |
| When the snake bites the sun | Lofts, Pamela |
| When the wind changed | Park, Ruth |
| When Tony got lost as school (and any other titles) | Wilson, Lorraine |
| When's my turn? | Smithers, Hayley |
| Where are you going, little mouse? | Kraus, Robert |
| Where are you, blue kangaroo | Clark, Emma |
| Where do you hide two elephants? | Rodda, Emily, 1948- |
| Where does Thursday go? | Brian, Janeen |
| Where the fairies fly | Simmons, Jane |
| Where the wild things are | Sendak, Maurice |
| Where there's smoke | Lovell, Robin |
| Where's dummy | Simpson, Kate |
| Where's my kitten? | Coxon, Michele |
| Where's Spot? (and any other titles) | Hill, Eric |
| The whistle stop party | Hunt, Nan |
| Whistle up the chimney | Hunt, Nan |
| The white crane | Morimoto, Junko |
| Who flung dung? | Redlich, Ben |
| Who wants a dragon? | Mayhew, James |
| Whoops! But it wasn't me | Child, Lauren |
| Who's in my garden? (and any other titles) | Wood, Jakki |
| Who's making that mess? | Hawthorn, Philip |
| Who's making that noise? | Hawthorn, Philip |
| Who's making that smell? | Hawthorn, Philip |
| Who's that jumbun in the log | McRobbie, Narelle |
| Whose tail is that | Nicholls, Christine |
| Whose teeth? tail? house? : 3 more favourite flip-the-flap books in one! | Rowe, Jeannette |
| Why do I have to eat off the floor? | Hornsey, Chris |
| Why ducks sleep on one leg | Garland, Sherry |
| Why? | Prap, Lila |
| Wilberforce goes shopping | Gordon, Margaret |
| Wild about books | Sierra, Judy |
| The wild washerwomen (and any other titles) | Yeoman, John |
| The wildest brother | Funke, Cornelia Caroline |
| Wildheart | Carmody, Isobelle, 1958- |
| William Tell | Early, Margaret |
| Willis and the echo | Wellington, Craig |
| Willow the wombat | Parker, Natalie Jane |
| Winter bacon : the story of a little pig | Garderen, Ilse van |
| Winter garden | Brown, Ruth |
| The winter mittens | Arnold, Tim |
| The wish cat | Scamell, Ragnhild |
| Wishbone | Brian, Janeen |
| The wizard of Oz | Herman, Gail |
| The wobbly wand | Bevan, Clare |
| The wolf | Barbalet, Margaret |
| The wolf who cried boy | Hartman, Bob |
| The wolf's story : what really happened to Little Red Riding Hood | Forward, Toby |
| Wolf's Sunday dinner | Cox, Tania |
| Wombat goes walkabout | Morpurgo, Michael |
| Wombat stew | Vaughan, Marcia K (Marcia Kay) |
| Wombats can't fly | Dugan, Michael, 1947- |
| Wombats don't have Christmas? | Dugan, Michael, 1947- |
| Wombat's secret | Johnson, Rebecca |
| The wonderful pigs of Jillian Jiggs | Gilman, Phoebe |
| Woodlore | Miller, Cameron |
| Woolly jumper, the story of wool | Hooper, Meredith |
| The world that we want | Toft, Kim Michelle |
| The worry monster | Uff, Caroline |
| The worst person in the world | Stevenson, James, 1929- |
| The wrong thing | Carmody, Isobelle, 1958- |
| Wynken, Blynken and Nod | Field, Eugene |
Y
| Yakkinn the swamp tortoise : survival Book 2 | Kuchling, Guundie |
| Yardil | Hawke, Rosanne |
| Yay! | Rodda, Emily, 1948- |
| A year on our farm | Matthews, P. E. (Penelope) |
| Yellow eye | Spillman, David |
| Yip! Snap! Yap! | Fuge, Charles |
| You choose | Goodhart, Pippa |
| You see a circus, I see-- | Downs, Mike |
| You'll wake the baby | Jinks, Catherine |
| You're all my favourites | McBratney, Sam |
| Yuck | Manning, Mick |
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| Zapt! | Denton, Terry, 1950- |
| Ziba came on a boat | Lofthouse, Liz |
| Zoe's webs | West, Thomas |
