August 2024 Reading Round Up

We’re over halfway through the year now, and I have met my overall reading goal, but still have a few challenge prompts to tick off across the board. I have books planned for these prompts and will hopefully get to them all by the end of the year. My reading has gone down a bit in recent months, but I am keeping on top of things and getting through my reading. Many of the books on this list have been reviewed and the posts will be going live in the next few weeks to month, as some are October books that I have read already. I am hoping to tick off all the prompts I have left.

There have been some brilliant children’s books coming out by Australian authors this year, and they just seem to get better as we go through the year.

1. Secret Factopia: Follow the Trail of 400 Hidden Facts by Paige Towler and Andy Smith
2. My Father’s Suitcase by Mary Garden
3. What’s Murder Between Friends by Meg Gatland-Veness
4. Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria by L.M. Wilkinson and Lavanya Naidu
5. Diving, Falling by Kylie Mirmohamadi
6. The Medusa Situation by Gabiann Marin
7. The Best Witch in Paris by Lauren Crozier
8. The Wedding Forecast by Nina Kenwood
9. Nerra, Deep Time Traveller: The Winds of Waa by Tasma Walton
10. This is Not A Sad Book (But it’s OK to Feel Sad): A Guide to Grief, Loss, and Getting Through the Hard Times by Elizabeth Vercoe with Kerry Ambromowski, illustrated by Grace Fraraccio
11. Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars by Catherine Norton
12. How to Free a Jinn by Raidah Shah Idil
13. The Grown-ups Guide to Picture Books by Lara Cain Gray, illustrated by Timothy Ide and Lorena Carrington
14. The Six Summers of Tash and Leopold by Danielle Binks
15. Millie Mak the Mender by Alice Pung and Sher Rill Ng
16. When Santa Got Stuck in a Gum Tree by Jackie Hosking and Nathaniel Eckstrom
17. Ethel the Penguin by Ursula Dubosarsky and Christopher Nielsen
18. How to Draw a Dragon by Kate Talbot
19. Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Age of Enchantment by Anna James