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Given my infamous obsession with all things underpants, and considering that I pride myself on being relatively across Australian illustrated book royalty Jackie French and Bruce Whatley’s oeuvre, I’m not sure how knowledge of Queen Victoria’s Underpants slipped past me. Nonetheless, I’m rectifying that now. I mean, really, what’s not to sell you on a [...]

For more than 20 years Bruce Whatley has been bringing to life some of the cutest, craziest, sweetest and ugliest characters in children’s books. His credits include Little White Dogs Can’t Jumpand Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chasewritten with his wife Rosie Smith who continues to be a large part of his work, The Little Refugee, Zoobots, [...]

A Gloriously funny tribute to a little known corner of royal history – complete with Christmas chaos The sequel to the hilarious (and historically accurate) QUEEN VICTORIA’S UNDERPANTS, this Christmas tale tells the story of one of our most endearing Christmas traditions – the Christmas Tree Something strange is happening at the palace and the [...]

By Jackie French & Bruce Whatley Celebrating ten years of one very determined wombat and one extraordinary collaboration Jackie French’s love of wombats comes alive in this cheeky observation of Mothball’s life, while Bruce Whatley’s captivating illustrations of Mothball’s antics show just how entertaining and endearing wombats are to humans. Published around the world including [...]

Happy belated Father’s Day, dads! I hope you were spoiled and adored, as Dad should be on this very special day. In celebration of fathers everywhere, here are my picks for the best new release Father’s Day books. My Dad’s the Coolest (Scholastic) Rosie Smith and Bruce Whatley are back in this sequel to My [...]

Advent Calendar Christmas Countdown Most Popular Aussie Kid’s Books #17 Six White Boomers by Rolf Harris and Bruce Whatley We surveyed our customers to discover the Most Popular Aussie Kid’s Books of all time – we’re counting down the Top 24 Kid’s Books between now and Christmas Eve…   34.7% of all respondents have read [...]

Advent Calendar Christmas Countdown Most Popular Aussie Kid’s Books #19 Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and illustrations by Bruce Whatley We surveyed our customers to discover the Most Popular Aussie Kid’s Books of all time – we’re counting down the Top 24 Kid’s Books between now and Christmas Eve…   33.7% of all [...]

It’s nearly Christmas Eve at the toyshop and every toy is hopeful they will be snaffled for the festive stocking. All the shiny new toys are the most popular, of course . . . they come and go quickly, and never last long enough to make friends of the other toys. At the very back [...]

Nog and the Land of Noses is Bruce Whatley’s hilarious new picture book. It’s the story of Nog who is the only one in town who doesn’t have a nose that does anything useful. His family and friends have noses that can do all sorts of things; sniff out a bargain, play music and even [...]

In keeping with this week’s Mother’s Day theme our featured book this morning is My Mum’s The Best by Rosie Smith and Bruce Whatley. When you see the pictures in My Mum’s The Best, it’s easy to see why Bruce is such a favourite with the kids. His illustrations are funny and so endearing. My Mum’s [...]

Some other snaps from the Conference: Bob Graham took us through his life and his life’s works. He was then treated to orchestrated interpretations of four of his picture books (composed and conducted by George Ellis) including How To Heal A Broken Wing.  Ursula Dubosarsky and Tohby Riddle took to the stage to discuss the process behind [...]

Jackie French, me, Bruce Whatley The CBCA NSW Conference… wow. I’ve been to my fair share of festivals, but never before have I been to one that felt so inclusive. Authors and other attendees weren’t separated. My experience with other festivals, as both speaker and attendee, has been that after sessions, speakers disappear to green rooms, [...]