Stories for Little Queenslanders series debuts to support First 5 Forever

A story about a cow’s hapless journey down a flooded Brisbane River and an alphabet book featuring echidnas exercising in Emerald are among a series of new children’s books available this week in all Queensland public libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Centres as part of the Stories for Little Queenslanders series, published by State Library of Queensland.

• Hotel for bees, written by Alison McLennan (Albany Creek, Qld) and illustrated by Erin Dunne (The Range, Qld)
• In the deep end, written and illustrated by Charlie Thomson (Boonah, Qld)
• Is this your egg?, written by Ella Kris (Thursday Island, Qld) and illustrated by Emma Cracknell (Bundamba, Qld)
• Koalas like to …,written by Shae Millward (Torquay, Qld) and illustrated by Brent Wilson (Birkdale, Qld)
• My people, written by Billie-Jean Taylor (Gordonvale, Qld)
• Once I munched a mango, written by Samantha Wheeler (Chandler, Qld) and illustrated by Shannon Horsfall (Bellara, Qld)
• One remarkable reef, written by Kellie Byrnes (Buderim, Qld) and illustrated by Rachel Tribout (Auchenflower, Qld)
• Shoosh!, written and illustrated by Simon Howe (Preston, Vic)
• The coloured echidna, written and illustrated by Eunice Day (Blackwater, Qld)
• The cow that swam out to sea, written by Pamela Rushby (Seventeen Mile Rocks, Qld) and illustrated by Nicola Hooper (Shailer Park, Qld)
• The little Queenslanders’ alphabet book, written by Sally Scudamore (Goondiwindi,Qld, currently residing in the UK) and illustrated by Sophie Beer (Annerley, Qld)
• Up and down on a rainy day by Kathryn Apel (Mount Tom, Qld) illustrated by Janet Turner (Upper Mount Gravatt, Qld)