Standout Children’s Books of 2024
This year we have reviewed so many wonderful books, too numerous to list here. Browsing through StoryLinks we chose 20+ our reviewers consider outstanding. Many thanks to members of WriteLinks and the Last Tuesday Book Club for their recommendations.
PICTURE BOOKS
Every Night at Midnight by Peter Cheong, Affirm Press
The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel & Danny Snell, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
Words That Taste Like Home by Sandhya Parappukkaran & Michelle Pereira, Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Pet by Ali Rutstein & Tommy Doyle, Albert Street Books
Walking Together by Coral Vass & Dub Leffler, Scholastic Australia
JUNIOR FICTION
11 Ruby Road: 1900 by Charlotte Barkla, Walker Books
Losing the Plot by Annaleise Byrd, Walker Books
Detective Beans & The Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen, (graphic novel) Penguin
MIDDLE GRADE FICTION
Thunderhead by Sophie Beer, Allen & Unwin
Leo and Ralph by Peter Carnavas, University of Queensland Press
Out of Bounds (The Too-Tall Tales of Alma T. Best, #1) by Katherine Collette, Harper Collins
The Midwatch by Judith Rossell, Hardie Grant
The 113th Assistant Librarian by Stuart Wilson, Penguin
INFORMATION BOOKS
The Grown-Ups Guide to Picture Books by Lara Cain Gray, Lorena Carrington & Timothy Ide, Midnight Sun Publishing
Into the Ice: Reflections on Antarctica by Alison Lester & Coral Tulloch, Allen & Unwin
The Opal Dinosaur by Yvonne Mes & Sylvia Morris, CSIRO Publishing
The Five Rules of Friendship by Jess Sanders & César Barceló, Affirm Kids
Dung Beetle On a Roll by Sandra Severgnini, CSIRO Publishing
YOUNG ADULT
My Family and Other Suspects by Kate Emery, Allen & Unwin
Liar’s Test by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Anomaly by Emma Lord
Happy Reading
