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An illustration of a fire truck loaded up with presents and decorated with tinsel. Santa is standing next to the fire truck, carrying a sack. He is greeting several children and adults.

Illustration from 'Ayla's Christmas Wish'

A new Australian Christmas picture book from NLA Publishing

Ayla's Christmas Wish by Pamela Jones and Lucia Masciullo.

Media release
Book cover for 'Flora' by Tania McCartney which features colourful illustrations of Australian plants, on a pink background with large text reading 'Book Launch' and 'Explore our remarkable flora with Tania McCartney'
Book launch - Flora: Australia’s Most Curious Plants

Join local award-winning children's author and illustrator Tania McCartney as she launches her newest book Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants.

Event
A pile of children's books
Creative storytelling

This Digital Classroom resource aligns to the Australian Curriculum for Year 3 English - Language, Literature and Literacy.

Digital Classroom
Young girl and older woman browsing at the Bookshop
Fauna: Australia's Most Curious Creatures

Did you know that platypus have retractable webbing on their hind feet to enable an easy transition from swimming to digging? That kangaroos can’t sweat and that the cassowary has no tongue?

Book
NLA Publishing book
Cover of book 'Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants'
Flora: Australia's Most Curious Plants

When it comes to flora, Australia is a land of diversity. From rainforests to deserts, mountains to the seashore, 90 per cent of our plant life is unique to this ancient land.

Book
NLA Publishing book
A colourful illustration of a person, an ice-cream cone and a fish with legs in a top hat.

A section of the cover of Phonobet.

Learn to read with NLA Publishing’s newest children’s book

Phonobet is a fun literacy teaching tool from National Library of Australia Publishing, that takes an onomatopoeic romp through the sounds of Australian English.

Media release
Cover of the book 'Marion and the Forty Thieves' showing children on the deck of a ship
Marion and the Forty Thieves

Marion's life is anything but ordinary. The daughter of the principal, Captain Neitenstein, she is the only girl aboard a magnificent floating boys' school, anchored permanently in Sydney Harbour in the late 1800s.

Book
NLA Publishing book
Sketch of boy riding a horse through a forrest fire, with black ink and messy colouring
Meet the 'Courageous Kids'

Stephanie Owen Reeder’s Heritage Heroes series celebrates stories of incredible survival, persistence and resilience by young people.

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Illustrations of people and a horse playing instruments and dancing

Illustration from 'Captain Thunderbolt's Recital'

New NLA Publishing children’s book based on a bushranger story

This is one of the unexpected stories of Fred Ward aka Captain Thunderbolt, who was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’.

Media release
A watercolour illustration of an emu standing on one leg next to a nest of teal eggs

A watercolour illustration from Have You Seen My egg?

NLA Publishing celebrates the 10th anniversary of ‘Have You Seen My Egg?’

To celebrate 10 years of this classic children’s title, NLA Publishing is producing an anniversary edition of Have You Seen My Egg?.

Media release
Black and white photo of a large ship in a harbour

N.S.S. (Nautical School Ship) Sobraon near Cockatoo Island, NRS-4481-3-[7/16268]-St1095, Museum of History NSW

The floating boarding school on the Parramatta River

Learn about the real school ship Sobraon behind Sarah Luke and NLA Publishing's children's book Marion and the Forty Thieves.

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