The Endless Shelf

Picture book magic is landing on the shelf again!

Ruth McGurk is a picture book author living with her family and teaching in Victoria. She has two new picture books out in the world, The Dinosaur Did It & the book she and Renata discuss in this episode, The New Blue Scarf.

Renata and Ruth talk kid's books, jumper collections, teaching inspiration, desserts, social media content, writing heroes, time cons...

The shelf has a new bright shiny treasure to show you!

Liz Ledden is a kid's book author and host of the classic Aussie kidlit podcast One More Page. She lives on the east coast of Queensland making fantastic picture books including Tulip and Brutus, Walking Your Human, and today’s featured story, Everyone Wants an Octopus Book!

Renata and Liz talk kids books, ducks, podcasting, the first potato eater, humpty...

We're back with another middle-grade book for the shelf!

Victoria Carless has two middle-grade books, Gus & the Starlight, and the book we focus on in this episode, Lani & the Universe! Renata and Victoria talk kid's books, tigers, science, hot air balloons, pillow forts, space & the orange origin.

The episode is squishy, squeaky, and colourfully tears our host away!

LANI & THE U...

It's a time to add another middle-grade book to our shelf!

Leo has come to share his debut novel Tuckshop Terrors with our listeners! Leo and Renata talk kids books, animation, giant toothbrushes, felt, school, great authors, and fish scales.

TUCKSHOP TERRORS
AUTHOR:               Leo Baker
PUBLISHER:          Australian Society of Authors

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Another beautiful picture book is on The Shelf! Sandhya Parappukkaran is a picture book author with titles including The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name, Amma's Sari, and the featured story, Stay For Dinner, which recently won the Multicultural NSW award from the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

There's a very special announcement waiting in this chat!! Renata and Sandhya talk kids books, canoes, triangles, t...

Welcome to our very first Block Breakers episode! Block Breakers are writer's cut versions of previous interviews, with lots and lots of amazing writer content that we normally cut for our kid friendly episode format. 

Lian's interview is a perfect example of why we need this second format for the kidlit community.

It's endless inspiration!

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Another great book is on the endless shelf!

Lian Tanner is one of the greats in the Aussie kidlit world of today. With many series including The Keepers, The Rogues, The Hidden/Icebreaker, Feathered Crime Fighters, and picture book Ella and the Ocean, Lian has a new series to share with us, and we're focusing in on its second book. The middle-grade Dragons of Hollow Series began with Spellhound, and now she's add...

You know the shelf always has space for more books, and it's time for another great picture book to join the greats on our list. This week's guest is Jess Galatola, sharing her debut picture book and some exciting news on an upcoming project!

Renata and Jess talk kid's books, teaching drama, how to talk about hard things with kids, planets,  toe strength, flowers, flours, and fish and chip flavoured fairy fl...

We're back with more great Aussie kid's books to add to our shelf and yours!

Eileen O'Hely has many kid's book series out in the world, and today we celebrate her latest addition to her published works: picture book Aisling & Amelia! Eileen and Renata talk kid's books, astronomy, dance, visiting wizards, languages, canoes & secrets of the insect world.

It's endless fun!

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It's our final episode for the year!

What a wonderful year 2023 has been for Booky & the team. This episode is our first International recording! Vikki and Renata talk kids books, libraries, Christmas, Lego and shot putters.

We have plenty of new episodes coming in 2024, but for now we hope you have a great holiday period!

PICTURE BOOK: POPPY, THE QUEEN & THE SEAT
AUTHOR:              Vik...

It's time for the school holidays, and we don't want you listeners to miss your chance at attending awesome kid's book events! We focus on events at kid's book shops in brisbane, but we'll be sharing the names of kid's bookshops all over Australia, so that you can find the one closest to you and go experience their magic! So many cool experiences await you all.

Lauren Hackney is back after her...

It's season 2, episode 2, so how about we celebrate 2 picture books!!

It's too good. Renata and Zewlan talk kids books, diversity, empathy, dancing, dinosaurs & mangoes!

NOTHING ALIKE
AUTHOR:               Zewlan Moor
ILLUSTRATOR:   Peter Cheong
PUBLISHER:         Hardie Grant Children's Publishing 

 THE BILL DUP 
AUTHOR:              Zewlan Moor
ILLUSTRATOR:  Simon ...

It's time for a middle grade fiction edition of The Endless Shelf!

Renata and Emma talk kids books, fantasy, an awesome kids writing competition, frogs, and chocolatey treasure.

RAINE IN THE UNDERLANDS - THE LOREKEEPER SERIES: BOOK ONE
AUTHOR: E.M. Greville
COVER ILLUSTRATOR: Kit Cronk
PUBLISHER: Lightning Source Inc

It's Endless Fun!

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We're back and straight into another awesome episode!

Renata and Sharon talk kid's books, teaching, and whether they've ever tried fire eating. This episode focuses on just one of Sharon's fantastic picture books, but we recommend you check out all of her titles!

LET'S GO SHOPPING, GRANDMA
AUTHOR:                  Sharon Giltrow
ILLUSTRATOR:      Dhwani Gosalia
PUBLISHER:      ...

This week we add some beautiful serenity to the shelf, with picture book The Lucky Shack by Apsara Baldovino. This story brings life and beautiful meaning to a little place through beautiful art work in words and illustrations.

Renata and Apsara talk gratitude, creativity, tutus and symbiotic pockets.

It's endless fun!

THE LUCKY SHACK (Picture Book)
Author:           Apsara Baldovino
Illustr...

Alison McLennan is a many times published kid's book author. She's got titles such as Growing Pains, Great and Small, Hotel for Bees, and Birdie Lights up the World. But guess what? She has a new book coming out, and we got to chat about it!

Renata and Ally talk kid's books, cartwheels, and woolly giraffes.

Calamity Jones: A Flamingo for Christmas
AUTHOR:          Alison McLennan
PUBLISHER: ...

Renata and Booky welcome Gabby Bassett to join them for a chat about kids books, inclusion, fairy lights and pizza!

The ending really pops...with non-stop surprises all over the place.

JACK'S BEST DAY EVER (Picture Book)
AUTHOR:                   Gabrielle Bassett
ILLUSTRATOR:       Annabelle Hale
PUBLISHER:             Woodslane Press

It's endless fun!

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