Newborn Christmas Gifts

This sturdy board book is full of bright illustrations and adorable animals to engage your baby's senses. Each double page has a chunky farmyard animal tab for little hands to grasp and is full of textured patches to touch, feel and explore. The perfect first book for babies to encourage their sensory development.

A colourful first pop-up book of the sea, perfect for tiny hands.

On the beach, on the waves and under the sea – find lots of ocean things in this colourful pop-up book. With 15 pop-ups and beautifully stylish illustrations by Ingela P Arrhenius, this is a first pop-up book to treasure.

About the author

Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Steve Irwin tells the inspiring true story of the Australian animal lover and wildlife conservationist. In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG

With a cute cast of characters, easy-to-use sliders, and an adorable mirror ending, this stylish little book is the perfect bedtime companion. A joy to read aloud, it has all the makings of a future classic.

Easy-to-use peekaboo sliders, a funny rhyming text and surprise mirror ending combine in this stylish and interactive board book for babies and toddlers! With a total of 10 smooth mechanisms to push, pull or turn on every spread this beautiful book is packed full of fun! From Camilla Reid and Ingela P Arrhenius, the award-winning team behind the bestselling Felt Flaps Where's Mr? series.

Connecting with faces and playing peekaboo is one of the first games that babies play. It's why the very youngest of children will love this cute home-themed book - and want to read it again and again. Also available: Peekaboo Cow, Peekaboo Apple, Peekaboo Bear, Peekaboo Sun, Peekaboo Love

Whether we share a toy or include someone in a game, all acts of kindness – no matter how big or small – make the world a better place! From the bestselling and beloved creator of Love Makes a Family and How to Say Hello comes this beautiful board book about kindness and community.

In this bright and beautiful board book, award-winning illustrator Sophie Beer introduces babies and toddlers to the idea that kindness is doing what you can, where you are, with what you have.

Featuring cute kids, diverse family and community groups, and inclusive representation, readers young and old will love seeing themselves and their communities gathered together. With rounded edges and sturdy pages, this high-quality board book will be plenty of fun for little hands!

The perfect board book for:

• Babies and toddlers aged 0–3 years
• Rainbow and queer families
• Toddlers and preschoolers learning to play well with others
• Gift-givers for pregnancy and baby showers

About the author

Sophie Beer is an award-winning author and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She works primarily in children's books, having published with Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Walker, Scholastic, Hardie Grant and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with Disney/Pixar, Google and the Sydney Opera House, and she has collaborated with Myer for her own line of children's homewares. When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books and social justice.

When a little girl decides to play dress-up, she and her grandma decide to dance their way around the house.

Dancing with Grandma is an enchanting story full of warmth and joy, and captures those precious, playful moments that bond children and their grandparents.

About the author

Rosemary Mastnak is the author and illustrator of three gorgeous picture books about the special relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren. 
Dancing with Grandma was her first picture book, and it was inspired by her beautiful granddaughter Anya. Rosemary’s second book, Cooking with Grandma, became a CBCA Notable Picture Book. Adventures with Grandpa is her third picture book.
Rosemary began her career as an early childhood teacher and then spent thirty years teaching watercolour to children and adults. She has won numerous art awards throughout Tasmania and has held thirty solo exhibitions, as well as exhibiting both interstate and internationally. Rosemary lives in Tasmania.

There’s so much more to Christmas than just getting presents. Celebrate all the ways you can be generous and kind in Twelve Days of Kindness, by the creator of best-selling Kindness Makes Us Strong.
 
Whether it’s making a card, sharing freshly baked cookies or sprinkling sparkly cheer, there are many kind ways to brighten someone else’s day during Christmas. Explore some of the simple ways you can spread kindness with this uplifting story by award-winning illustrator Sophie Beer.
 
Featuring an inclusive range of families, parents and cultures, readers young and old will love seeing themselves and their communities gathered together. Sparkling with gold foil, this high-quality, hardback picture book will be plenty of fun for young readers!

Perfect for

• Children aged 1-6 years 
• Rainbow and queer families
• Modern families re-thinking the way they celebrate Christmas
• Gift-givers for pregnancy and baby showers

About the author

Sophie Beer is an award-winning author and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She works primarily in children's books, having published with Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Walker, Scholastic, Hardie Grant and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with Disney/Pixar, Google and the Sydney Opera House, and she has collaborated with Myer for her own line of children's homewares. When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books and social justice. 

I love your quiet stories, songs sung loud in the rain. No one can hug like you, Mum or makes me feel the same. Brave mums, playful mums, cuddly mums, quiet mums - every mum is special in her own way. Charming, heartfelt and delightful, There's Only One Mum Like You is a tribute to the unique magic of mums.

In this dazzling board book is designed with tummy time in mind - a gentle exercise where a baby lies on their front to help strengthen their muscles and improve their head control. The fold-out format allows the book to be spread out in-front of a baby, while the bold colours stimulate their developing eyesight.

Find your baby's face in this delightful new lift-the-flap book with a mirror on every page! 

One thing is for sure - babies love mirrors! This brand new series of board books aims to enhance early mirror play as very young children will enjoy finding their own face on every page. Featuring large card flaps with friendly animals which are easy for even the littlest hands to grab, babies will enjoy reaching for these books again and again.

It's Cuddle Bug's first Christmas and she's ready to experience all the joy that the season has to offer in this sweet and colourful rhyming board book. Celebrate the festive season with this adorable addition to the bestselling You're My Little . . . series!

About the author

Nicola Edwards (Author)
Nicola Edwards was raised by the seaside in beautiful Brighton. She loves reading, dancing, rhyming and turquoise things. She now lives with her husband and children in North London and spends her days writing and editing children's books. She has been nominated for the UKLA and Blue Peter Book awards and is a two-time Parenting Product Awards winner.

Natalie Marshall (Illustrator)
Natalie Marshall is an internationally published illustrator and author. Her unique illustrations can be found worldwide in books for children as well as on greeting cards and wrapping paper, baby nappies, mugs and packs of blueberries! Natalie lives near the beach in Melbourne, Australia with her bike-loving husband and two busy children.

A beautiful, large-format gift board book with BIG flaps to lift and words to learn on every page. All toddlers and preschoolers will adore learning their numbers as they search for objects, animals and people behind the shaped flaps, name what they can see and begin to learn the numbers' names and sounds of counting.

A stand-out series of beautifully soft, black-and-white cloth books - with a crinkly page, buggy handle, felt flaps and a mirror!

Cuddle up with baby's first cloth book featuring high-contrast images to help develop a newborn's eyesight.

The surprise mirror ending is sure to delight the tiniest of babies! With bold artwork from Ingela P Arrhenius, bestselling illustrator of the award-winning, must-have board book series for babies and toddlers - Felt Flaps and Peekaboo.

The PERFECT book for baby's first Christmas!

The bells ring out, today is Christmas Day!
Baubles drip rainbows in the morning light.

From a delicious Christmas feast to a unwrapping presents under the tree, share in the delight of baby's very first Christmas in this gorgeous board book from bestselling creator Cheryl Orsini.  

WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK GREAT:

KEEPSAKE TO TREASURE: The obvious choice for parents and grandparents looking to commemorate baby’s first Christmas celebration!

BELOVED ILLUSTRATOR: Cheryl Orsini is the bestselling illustrator of Fairy Dancers, Unicorn!, the Travelling Bookshop series and many, many more

TINY HANDS: Perfectly packaged for gifting to little hands – a stunning cased board book format with a luxe grain finish

Perfect For

• Newborns and one-year-olds
• Gifting in the lead up to Christmas
• Sharing with parents, older siblings and grandparents
• Building a library full of keepsakes

About the author

Cheryl Orsini taught herself to draw as a little girl. She grew a little taller, studied Visual Communications at UTS and finally, when she could grow no more, she started illustrating children's books, magazines and decorating a great many peg dolls!

Her books include Lucy's Book, Unicorn!, The Fairy Dancers and Pom Pom, Where Are You?. Cheryl's work also regularly appears in magazines and exhibitions.

It's Christmas Eve, and the construction site is bustling with activity. But one by one, as they head to bed, the trucks find gifts waiting for them – for Crane, it's a new wrecking ball! For Dump Truck, it's a set of new tires! For Excavator, it's a shiny new scoop!

Each truck gets a present that excites them and makes them feel appreciated on Christmas. But what have they been so busy building? It's the gift of a new fire station for the town's firetrucks! A celebration of friendship, hard work, and giving thanks, this latest-and-greatest construction site book is sure to be a hit – just in time for the holidays!

A heart-warming book celebrating the special bond between father and child, featuring flurries of silver foil on every page! A heart-warming book celebrating the special bond between father and child, featuring flurries of silver foil on every page! When I became your daddy, you made my world complete. I didn't know the little things in life could be so sweet. A beautiful, reassuring picture book about the unconditional love a father has for his children. Whether exploring rockpools, playing in the sand, or floating snug together in the sea, there's nothing this little otter loves more than spending time with their daddy.

You're fabulous when you are free to be yourself! This beautiful board book, from the bestselling and beloved creator of Love Makes a Family and Kindness Makes Us Strong, embraces the gender spectrum and encourages self-expression, regardless of labels.

Whether you like wearing sparkly tutus or stomping around in big boots, have messy fun or need quiet time, this stunning rainbow board book from award-winning illustrator Sophie Beer affirms and celebrates it all – even if it changes day by day.

Featuring cute kids, diverse family and community groups, and inclusive representation, readers young and old will love seeing themselves and their communities gathered together. With rounded edges and sturdy pages, this high-quality board book will be plenty of fun for little hands!

The perfect board book for:

• Babies and toddlers aged 0-4 years
• Rainbow and queer families
• Toddlers and preschoolers exploring new activities and ways to express themselves
• Gift-givers for pregnancy and baby showers

About the author

Sophie Beer is an award-winning author and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She works primarily in children's books, having published with Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Walker, Scholastic, Hardie Grant and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with Disney/Pixar, Google and the Sydney Opera House, and she has collaborated with Myer for her own line of children's homewares. When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books and social justice.

Get ready for the bedtime with Night, Night Dinosaur, the fourth title in the successful Night, Night series by Priddy Books.Young children will love meeting the sleepy dinosaurs in this calming board book. See the adorable dinos get ready for bed, then turn the shaped pages and watch them gently fall to sleep. Perfect for settling your little one into bed and ending with your own, quiet, 'Night, night'.With irresistibly sweet illustrations and a magical sky of glow-in-the-dark stars, Night Night DInosaur is the perfect way to the end the day.

A new title in the hit novelty series with multiple sliders and a host of safari animals! Connecting with faces and playing peekaboo is one of the first games that babies play. It’s why the very youngest of children will love this cute safari-themed book – and want to read it again and again.

Don't feel like hugging today? No worries! We can say hello with a smile, a wave or even a high five! Celebrate all the ways to say hello with this fun and inclusive board book from the beloved creator of Love Makes a Family and Kindness Makes Us Strong.

Saying hello can be tricky for some kids, but Sophie Beer's feel-good introduction to greetings is the perfect story to help! How to Say Hello explores consent with a light touch, taking big concepts and nestling them in clear yet playful read-aloud text. Inclusive, vibrant and uplifting, this beautiful board book will help support children in establishing boundaries as they navigate relationships.

Featuring an inclusive range of families, parents and cultures, readers young and old will love seeing themselves and their communities gathered together. With rounded edges and sturdy pages, this high-quality board book will be plenty of fun for little hands!

The perfect board book for:

• Babies and toddlers aged 0–3 years
• Modern families looking for a gentle introduction to consent and bodily autonomy
• Rainbow and queer families
• Gift-givers for pregnancy and baby showers

About the author

Sophie Beer is an award-winning author and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She works primarily in children's books, having published with Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Walker, Scholastic, Hardie Grant and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with Disney/Pixar, Google and the Sydney Opera House, and she has collaborated with Myer for her own line of children's homewares. When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books and social justice.

Lift the flaps to find the animals in this eco-friendly board book. Who is hiding behind each flap? This gentle board book with lift the flaps invites you to celebrate our amazing planet and the animals that live on it with your baby. Say hello to a new

Say hello to all sorts of unicorns in this bright, interactive touch-and-feel-book! Baby Touch- Unicorns is part of Ladybird's bestselling Baby Touch series, designed to help stimulate babies' senses. With simple text, high contrast illustrations, and a touch-and-feel on every double page, this playful book helps to boost children's motor skills as they discover lots of unicorns.

It's a new day in Australia. Let's follow the sun! Wake up with kookaburras on Arakwal Country (Byron Bay), bask with wombats on ??wulinantikala (Cradle Mountain), ?watch black and red cockatoos flying over A??nangu Country, scratch the Daintree Rainforest floor with cassowaries on Kuku Yalanji Country, and go to sleep as quokkas wake up on Whadjuk Noongar Country (Rottnest Island).

Welcome to Australia as you've never seen it before: a dreamy pastel-popping ode to the significant places and animals on the land we all call home, from emerging artist Brentos.