On Australia Day I asked readers to share their favourite Australian book. I was amazed by the number and quality of the responses. So many wonderful suggestions from readers both within Australia and around the world. This has inspired me to collate a list of all the responses, for anyone who would like to read more wonderful Australian books. Where possible, I have linked the book to its page on Amazon. I figure for Aussies these books are reasonably easy to find, but if you are outside of Aus, they’re harder to track down. I’ve also tried to divide them by age group which is, at times, arbiatry, and at other times guesswork because there are a few here I’ve not read.

So, drumroll please, for my list of Wonderful Australian Books, as nominated by blog readers.

Picture Books/Early childhood

Ca-a-r Ca-a-a-a-r, by Geoff Havel
Possum Magic, by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
One Hungry Spider, by Jeannie Baker
The Magic Hat by Mem Fox
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox.
Samantha Seagull’s Sandals by Gordon Winch
Shy the Platypus by Leslie Rees
Wombat Divine by Mem Fox and Kerry Argent
The Story of Rosy Dock by Jeannie Baker,
The Frog Who Wouldn’t Laugh, Celia Egan’s
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
A Bush Christening by A.B. Patterson
The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek, by Jenny Wagner
The Old Man Who Loved to Sing, by John Winch
The Bilby’s First Easter, by Irena Silby
The Galah, by Pauline Reilly
Bobbie Dazzler by Margaret Wild and Janine Dawson

Children’s

You and Me Murrawee, by Kerri Hashimi
The Terrible Underpants, by Kaz Cooke
Wanda-Linda Goes Berserk, by Kaz Cooke.
The Tram to Bondi Beach by Libby Hathorn
Okra and Acacia by Libby Hathorn,
Harry and the Anzac Poppy by Lockyer
Illustrated Poems by C.J. Dennis
Magic Pudding, by Norman Lindsay
Seven Little Australians, by Ethel Turner
The Family at Misrule by Ethel Turner
Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall,
A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce
Stories of Henry Lawson
Quinkin Mountain, Percy Trezise
Australian Poems to Read to the Very Young edited by Yvonne Perrin
Dot and the Kangaroo, by Ethel Pedley
Tashi stories, by Anna Fienberg
Minton stories by Anna Fienberg,
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
Pigs Might Fly by Emily Rodda

Young Adult

Polymer, by Sally Rogers-Davidson
Witchbank, by Catherine Jinks
Chain of Charms series by Kate Forsyth
The Arrival by Shaun Tan.
Tomorrow series, by John Marsden
The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan
Abhorsen, by Garth Nix

Thanks to all who contributed to this list. There is still time. If YOU have a favourite Australian book to suggest, leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list in future.