• Librarian’s Night Before Christmas

    With a plethora of literary references embedded in the rhyming narrative, Librarian’s Night Before Christmas is a picture book made for literature lovers everywhere. The dedicated librarian is tidying the shelves, mending the broken books and sighing at the lack of funds which have left her beautiful place bereft of great books. Of course help…

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  • The Polar Express

    The Polar Express is a beautiful picture book which was created in 1985. It has since been turned in to a magical movie. As with many great cinematic creations turning back to the book that originally inspired it provides the reader with many rewards. The Polar Express is told from the point of view of…

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  • Father Christmas

    Utilizing a fun, comic strip style narrative Raymond Brigg’s classic picture book, Father Christmas, is one that we reach for year after year. Father Christmas is portrayed by Briggs as an incredibly down to earth chap, if not just little bit grumpy. I mean, traipsing across the world in the cold and dark, with blizzards…

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  • Olivia Helps With Christmas

    We’ve chosen Olivia Helps with Christmas for My Book Corner due to it’s ability to single handedly capture that intense excitement and anticipation felt on Christmas Eve. You know the sort – endless trips to the window to see if he has arrived … As preparations for the big day begin in earnest Olivia feels…

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  • Christmas Eve at the Mellops’

    Christmas Eve at the Mellops’ is full of nostalgic Christmas tones and good cheer, with a firm nod to the need to consider others – especially at Christmas time. Mr Mellops discovers a great article in his newspaper about Christmas tree decorations, this gives Isidor a fabulous idea for a great surprise for his father.…

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  • Figaro and Rumba and the Crocodile Café

    Anna Fienberg can certainly pen a story. Figaro and Rumba and the Crocodile Café is refreshing, quirky, vibrant and just pure fun. With the added benefit of Stephen Michael King’s colourful illustrations adorning page, it is a perfect challenge for those just climbing in to chapter books and an enjoyable romp for those already confident.…

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  • Superworm

    Fantastic – a new release from the dynamic duo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler – Superworm. It was with much excitement that My Book Corner delved in to the colourful pages of their latest collaboration. The Superworm is established, in the opening pages, as a character similar to that of the The Smartest Giant in…

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  • Queen Victoria’s Christmas

    Jackie French and Bruce Whatley make a formidable (award winning) duo when it comes to children’s picture books. These two, oh so talented individuals, have put their heads together to create a beautiful Christmas themed picture book – Queen Victoria’s Christmas. The build up to Christmas can be a time of hustle, bustle, enticing smells…

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  • The Great Expedition

    I love how Peter Carnavas sets this up as the most daring expedition ever. Well, delivering a package to your grandma all the way across the playing field is important, presenting all manner of obstacles and challenges! Peter Carnavas’s sense of humour shines throughout, we loved his description of the exploring party as ‘a ramshackle…

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  • The Children Who Loved Books

    The Children Who Loved Books from Peter Carnavas is warm celebration of books and all that they can offer us. Angus and Lucy don’t have a television, or a house, or a car. But they can be found snuggled amongst a whole heap of wonderful books. Books have many uses from holding up that pesky…

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  • Santa’s Suit

    Fun and quick witted Davide Cali’s Santa’s Suit is an entertaining read for Christmas. It’s Christmas Eve. Santa starts looking for his suit – surely it must be here somewhere? Humour comes from his dog, Bobo, who’s responses will sound familiar to many house holds, ‘It’s exactly where you left it’ Hmm like many missing…

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  • Little Elephants

    The reputation of Graeme Base precedes him. A prolific and engaging children’s story teller creating children’s picture books accompanied by his imaginative, all encompassing illustrations. How fitting it was that The 2012 Australian Speech Pathology Awards presented him with the Lifetime Achievement Award in October 2012 for his contribution to children’s literature – we’re relieved…

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  • Peggy

    Welcome to the world of Peggy, a gorgeous picture book adorned with Anna Walker’s signature watercolour illustrations which always lift our spirits! Peggy lives in a little house, and lives … well … a quiet, happy life. One particularly blustery day sees poor Peggy quite literally swept off her tiny chicken feet .. and in to…

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  • The Great Snortle Hunt

    Claire Freedman is well known for her popular series which all began with the infamous Aliens Love Underpants. The Great Snortle Hunt is some what of a departure from that style. Freedman has harnessed her command of the language and her knowledge of what works for children, and headed off in a very appealing new…

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  • The Haunted House

    Stylish and thoughtful, The Haunted House by Kazuno Kohara, is a gorgeous picture book which is perfect for Halloween in particular. Our little girl arrives at a suspicious looking old house right on the very edge of the town. Isn’t that where haunted houses can always be found?! She soon discovers a whole host of ghosts, but…

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With so many good children’s’ books to choose from, it always helps to get a trusted recommendation, that’s precisely what My Book Corner is here for.

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My Book Corner consists of a team of published authors, budding authors, TV script writers, teachers, journalists and all-round book enthusiasts offering you a carefully curated list of books that we love, and more often than not, absolutely adore.

Books to make you laugh, cry, cringe and shriek. Books that fire the imagination and will ultimately shape the childhood of generations of children to come.

My Book Corner has been around since 2011 and plan to be here for many more years to come.

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