Time is running out! Santa is getting ready for his big trip, and animals from all over the world are writing to let him know what they hope to receive. It’s your job to open the envelopes and pull out the real letters from our furry, feathery and scaly friends! Join Andrew Daddo and Michelle Pike on a funny (and surprising) trip around the globe! What will YOU ask Santa for this year?

Someone's pretending to be asleep, but one little monkey is awake and soon the whole house will be too! From the team who who snuggled down and tucked you in with Good Night Me. Cheeky Monkey is about the games we love to play in the morning.

Cook. Drive. Change a tyre. Dance. Some people can do anything. Well - almost!

So. Have you been naughty? Or Nice? Christmas is about heaps of stuff. Holidays. Sunburn. Puddings with cash in them. Family drives gone bad. Weird relatives who eat their pets and fights - what about one between Santa and the Tooth Fairy? Only, that'd never happen...That Aussie Christmas Book is full of hilarious stories, heaps of gag (with a few that will make you gag!) and the best ways to sabotage Christmas so everyone talks about you forever.

Harrison and Jess would love to meet some of their favourite stars, but not like this. They're on holidays and have to spend the day with their mum, who works at the local TV station. Problem is, there's a new rule - No Kids At Work. And when Harrison and Jess get busted, there's only one thing to do: Run, Kid, Run!

Ash and Kylie have a mum who's a total embarrassment. She's into health and exercise and deep inner work. And their dad is big on saying no to everything before realising he should have said yes. That means they get dragged along on all their schemes...like this one, where they've ending up in a health farm run by a -- but that would never happen to anyone else, right?

Jack and Josh Pickering are identical twins. Same, but different. Josh is the daredevil, Jack's the brains. And only one J pickering has made the cricket team. Everyone wants them to have the twin thing, but they're not feeling it like they're supposed to. Then Nonna comes to stay and they can't even have separate bedrooms. But when one of the class uber-babes flicks her hair at the wrong twin, everything goes pear-shaped.

Someone's ready for bed, but it's going to take a long, long time to say good night! This is a beautifully quiet book from two of Australia's children's book favourites. A special gift for a child or a grown up.

Want to know: how to fake a Funniest Home Video? how NOT to road test your stack hat? what to do if you miss the bus for the school camp and the bats come to get you? AND how to keep your chocolate bar from melting all over the car? Andrew Daddo's wicked collection of short stories will convince you that no matter how much trouble you've been in, you've never known what it's really like to be sprung!

Fergus Kipper is at it again! This guy is a case study in: how to be a champion at everything from smelling to spelling; delivering a baby in the front seat of the car; driving like a winner (and not like your dad!); and busting your older sister with her boyfriend! Another wicked collection of short stories from the best-selling author of Sprung!, Writing in Wet Cement and Creepy Cool.

Sputz, the family dog, vomits and slobbers all the way to the new house, and Angus and Emily don't blame him. They didn't want to move in the first place! All their friends are back in the city and this place will never be a real home. The kids at school are either boofheads or bullies. And the teacher slobbers more than the dog. So it's quite a surprise when they find themselves fitting in.

Creepy Cool is haunted. It's a place alive with dead things and everyone tells Angus to stay away. His sister Emily and her friend Frances try to practice their kissing on him, and to Angus nothing could be more scary than that! But he's wrong...

Mum's not in the mood for games, but the doghouse isn't big enough for the whole family! So, Dad, Angus and Sputz the dog clear out and head for the tip. That's where Sputz decides to start a game of his own! And it turns out to be a real dog of a day, but by the end of it everyone's laughing.

Okay, the surf's sweet, the sand's hot (so are the people on it), you're happily reading between the flags and one of these stories sneaks up behind you and you're DACKED! Any minute, you won't be the only one laughing. So before you go any further, find yourself a spare pair of pants. You're going to need them!

Your big brother will always find some way to drop you in it. Your big sister will always be in charge of the phone. There has to be a way out of the family haircut. You will need to help your parents through The Talk about the facts of life. But Fergus is learning that these ARE the facts of life and that the only thing to do is keep laughing and keep moving! Another hilarious collection of stories by the best-selling author of Sprung! and Sprung Again!

The latest in the Hotshots series for children. A box of chocolates as big as your bedroom? A single spot on your face that keeps you away from school? Matt finds there's no magic as powerful as your imagination! Read more about Matt and Melody in Magic Tricks, also in the Hotshots series. Illustrated by Rob Mancini.

Can there be only one winner in a sporting contest? The tiger, the hippo, the grizzly bear and other animals want to know who is the champion of them all, and they find out that they're all champions in their own special ways.

Hooley Dan and the outlaws have searched every gaol in the kingdom for Tam and Nina’s parents.  There is only one place left to look – the Wolf King’s Iron Castle.  Smuggled into the stronghold, Tam, Nina and Chiz discover at last the secret of the Wolf-King’s power.

Tam, Nina and Chiz and the outlaws waylay Field Marshal Krevel’s carriage.  Discovering that the Wolf-King wants to collect another magical object, a dagger, they must race against the wolves to reach it first and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Now members of an outlaw band, Tam and Nina are on a mission to find out about the wolves' new weapon. In the town square they meet a common thief, who goes along with them even though they don't want him to. Saving him and the magical bag he has stolen from the wolves might just be more trouble than they can handle

Tam and Nina return from gathering firewood to discover their home has been invaded and their parents kidnapped by
their overlords, the wolves. Through a terrifying night in the forest, one thing keeps them going - the legend of a band of
outlaws living free. If only it's true - if only they can find them...

Walter was different. Every full moon his family turned into handsome werewolves, but Walter stayed the same...until that one moonlit night.

Cats know about ghosts. But what if there's a whole army of them? Sassycat has moved into a new neighbourhood and the local animals are acting very weirdly. No welcome here for a fun-loving cat! And why is the cemetery off limits? Sassycat's humans aren't much help either - even her best friend Rebecca is distracted and troubled by nightmares. It's lucky that Sassycat is such a sassy cat. She'll solve the mystery, even if she has to do it all by herself!

This is the final book of the Heaven and Earth Trilogy. When Ferren attempts to unite the Residual tribes, he must prepare to combat the ultimate evil, Asmodai, the Fallen Angel. Asmodai will stop at nothing... but has he underestimated the Residual Alliance? And will the spell of love that Asmodai planted in Miriael's heart come back to haunt him?

Every night in the sky overhead, fearful battles take place in the Millennial War between Heaven and Earth. Every night, the people of Ferren's tribe lie trembling in terror. Then a Junior Angel called Miriael crashes to the Earth. As the War builds up and up, Ferren and his tribe are drawn into vast events beyond their control. The final outcome hangs on the choices of Ferren and Miriael . . .

Rebellious Ferren and the stranded angel Miriael travel from one exotic tribe to the next as they seek to unite the Residual people against the evil Humen. They are joined by Kiet, a spirited young woman who is equally determined to change to world order. Together they make an unstoppable trinity.

Perry wants to be a normal teenager. Normal kids have homes and families; they aren't on the run; they don't have guardians ruining their lives with daily weapons training. When the Collector of Children appears in the tiny town of Trucel and calls Perry by her name, all her dreams of a normal life are shattered and, as she is cast into a strange land and forced into apprenticeship for the Fool of a lunatic king, she must learn to master all of her skills. In this land, it is dangerous to be a child...and nothing is as it seems.

Charlie doesn't want the present his grandma sends him. It's yukky. But one special night, Charlie's present makes an amazing suggestion....

Tamly's Birth Foretelling said he would be a danger to magic, and it seems to be true.  The sorcerer brothers Harshax and Krushax are hunting him down - but for what terrible purpose?  It will take all Tamly's courage to face his enemies and thwart their evil plan.

Meadowhythe has lost its magic, but Kym has a plan to get it back.  She and her friends Mel and Tamly must creep into the heart of the mountain, then down a crevasse deep enough to swallow them forever, to the crypt where Shardax the sorcerer buried his enemies.  They had better not be afraid of dead things though....

Evil does not die. It merely sleeps - awakening when we least expect it.

Meadowhythe is again in danger - evil magical forces are growing stronger every day. Giant's, flesh-eating birds and powerful sorcerers lie in wait for Tamly and his friends - and this time they may not win.

The orphan Tamly and his best friend Kym are as different as fire and snow. Kym has magic coming out of her fingers, and Tamly has none at all. When their village is threatened by bad magic this unlikely pair will need to use their combined talents to steal the Book of Spells from the evil sorcerer Lord Harshax.

On a freezing night, Lord Shambles shatters the tower where the children are learning magic. Runcible, Mariam and their friends run for their lives. All of Iltior now lies in the dreaded sorcerer's hands and, as soon as he steals the childrens' unique magic, he will attack Earth. The children must sneak into his terrible fortress and there Runcible will have to take on Shambles the greatest sorcerer in the world, all by himself.

Runcible and Mariam are back! And they are in big trouble. Lord shambles has returned stronger than ever before. Once he finds the lost Citadel of Magic there will be no defence against his evil sorcery. To stop Shambles, the children must journey to the wondrous Iltior and descend to the uttermost pole. But even if they find the Codex of Dreadful Spells, Runcible still has to unravel the mystery of the tainted children, then face his most terrifying nightmare - the sting of the giant scorpion.

Runcible Jones and Mariam Orpiment - two almost normal children stuck at Grindgrim Academy, the worst school in the country. Find out what happens when Runcible and Mariam are hurled through a gate to Iltior, to become the children that will change the world's destiny forever.

A quirky and exotic story about Edwina Nearly. One day, standing in front of the painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, she finds herself in that world, in the painting and walking around in it and begins to come and go at will. She meets Janus there and they become friends in the Garden. But one day Janus wants to enter Edwina's world and Edwina must find a way of luring him back into the Garden before he destroys her and those she loves....

Cockatoo has travelled all the way from Australia to Polar Bear's home to see the white snow. When he invites his friends to see the purple snow that falls in Australia in summer each year, they laugh and laugh. Only Polar Bear is willing to make the trip. But at the end of an exhausting journey he is too tired to look for the purple snow. He falls asleep - and wakes up to a big surprise!