Lamont Standing Order - 2016 Picture Story

OCTOBER

The Fabulous Friend Machine

By Nick Bland

Popcorn is, quite simply, the friendliest chicken at Fiddlesticks farm! When she finds a Fabulous Fr ... Read More

Do Not Open This Book

By Andy Lee
Illustrated by Heath McKenzie

This guy will do anything for you not to open this book!Threats, bribes, reverse psychology - you na ... Read More

Home in the Rain

By Bob Graham

From multi-award winning author-illustrator Bob Graham comes a tender, touching story of family life ... Read More

Jack and Mia

By Robert Vescio
Illustrated by Claire Richards

Jack and Mia are best friends. They stick together like paper and glue.Then the unthinkable happens ... Read More

Pig The Elf

By Aaron Blabey

No-one loves Christmas more than Pig.And the world's greediest Pug will stay up all night to get his ... Read More

Smeck

By Ben Redlich

Welcome to the world of Smeck -- a fantastical, piratical adventure on the high seas. Australian aut ... Read More

SEPTEMBER

Blue, The Builder's Dog

By Jen Storer

Meet Blue, the Builder's Dog. On the construction site, he's part of the team. He guards the tools, ... Read More

Mr Chicken Arriva a Roma

By Leigh Hobbs

Mr Chicken has been to Paris and London, but his taste for travel is insatiable - now it's time to v ... Read More

Galapagos Day

By Sarah Martin
Illustrated by Vincent Agostino

The first day of life for a baby sea lion in the Galapagos Islands can be hazardous. Within an hour ... Read More

The Ballad of Henry Hoplingsea

By Julia Hubery
Illustrated by Lucia Masciullo

Henry will do anything to win the hand of his beloved Carmelita. He is inventive and determined, and ... Read More

One Photo

By Ross Watkins

Dad came home one day with one of those old cameras, the kind that use film. But Dad didn’t take pho ... Read More

A Child of Books

By Oliver Jeffers
Illustrated by Sam Winston

From Oliver Jeffers and typographical fine artist, Sam Winston, comes an inspiring and lyrical pictu ... Read More

AUGUST

Don’t Call Me Bear!

By Aaron Blabey

G’day my name is Warren, and I’ve got something to share... Just because I’m furry doesn’t mean that ... Read More

Wild Pa

By Claire Saxby
Illustrated by Connah Brecon

Come celebrate the adventurer lurking in every grandad, pop and pa. My Pa is not a quiet Pa, a sit-a ... Read More

The Lonely Giant

By Sophie Ambrose

From an incredible new picture book talent, The Lonely Giant is a modern fable about friendship, fre ... Read More

Grandpa's Big Adventure

By Paul Newman
Illustrated by Tom Jellett

A warm and funny story shared by grandfather and grandson, from new-comer Paul Newman and award-winn ... Read More

Dog Lost

By Jan Ramage
Illustrated by Brian Simmonds

This story is inspired by the heroic accounts of dogs that miraculously find their way home after lo ... Read More

Welcome To Country

By Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy

This is an expansive and generous Welcome to Country from a most respected Elder, Aunty Joy Murphy, ... Read More

JULY

My Brother

By Dee, Oliver & Tiffany Huxley

When a gentle creature sets out to search for a lost brother we are taken on an ethereal journey acr ... Read More

Home of the Cuckoo Clock

By Robert Favretto
Illustrated by David Eustace

The village of Schoenwald is frozen in time. With no clock to measure their lives, the townsfolk liv ... Read More

Pandamonia

By Chris Nixon
Illustrated by Chris Owen

When visiting the zoo, whatever you do, DON'T WAKE THE PANDA! Join in the fantastic fun as one grump ... Read More

Worm

By Nicki Greenberg

Worm lives underground, munching through the earth. Life is pretty predictable - or so he thinks. .. ... Read More

Petunia Paris's Parrot

By Katie Haworth
Illustrated by Jo Williamson

Petunia Paris has everything she could possibly want, from a swimming pool to a bicycle with its ver ... Read More

On The River

By Roland Harvey

Follow the mighty Murray River from the mountains to the sea on an epic journey with Roland Harvey a ... Read More

JUNE

Beth

By Mark Wilson

Beth is a child convict, caught stealing on the streets of London and sent to Australia on the First ... Read More

Caspar and the Night Sea

By Alison Binks

Caspar and the Night Sea speaks to the imagination of children who are alive to the sound of the wav ... Read More

Chooks in Dinner Suits

By Diane Jackson Hill
Illustrated by Craig Smith

On a tiny island lives a waddle of Little Penguins. But their numbers are dwindling. Swampy Marsh kn ... Read More

Out

By Angela May George
Illustrated by Owen Swan

I’m called an asylum seeker, but that’s not my name. A little girl and her mother have fled their ho ... Read More

Circle

By Jeannie Baker

In an infinity of sky, tiny godwit birds follow ancient, invisible migratory pathways, flying on and ... Read More

MAY

Penelope the Mountain Pygmy Possum

By Gordon Winch
Illustrated by Stephen Pym

Much of Penelope's story is true. Mountain pygmy possums do hibernate, the male does go down the mou ... Read More

Mad Magpie

By Gregg Dreise

Mad Magpie is the third book in this successful series of morality tales from award-winning author a ... Read More

Incredibilia

By Libby Hathorn
Illustrated by Gaye Chapman

Little Georgie is the youngest child in the family, and this means Max and Harriet sometimes forget ... Read More

Gary

By Leila Rudge

Any bird can find adventure. Even Gary. Gary the pigeon can't fly. When his racing pigeon friends he ... Read More

Mrs Dog

By Janeen Brian
Illustrated by Marjorie Crosby-Fairall

Mrs. Dog is a farm dog at the end of her working life. She spends her days shadowing the steps of Ta ... Read More

APRIL

Reflection

By Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg
Illustrated by Robin Cowcher

This poignant picture book is about remembering those who serve at war.Left! Left! Left! Right! Left ... Read More

Miss Mae's Saturday

By Justine Flynn
Illustrated by J Yi

Is anything as sad and boring as being stuck inside on a rainy Saturday? It depends on your imaginat ... Read More

A Patch from Scratch

By Megan Forward

Jesse and Lewis want to grow their own fruit and vegies, just like people do on a farm. They're goin ... Read More

The Ricker Racker Club

By Patrick Guest
Illustrated by Nathanial Eckstrom

To be in the Ricker Racker Club you have to be brave. You have to be kind. You have tonot be a girl ... Read More

Rockhopping

By Trace Balla

The story of an eventful hike in Gariwerd (the Grampians), from the creator of the multi-award-winni ... Read More

A Soldier, A Dog and A Boy

By Libby Hathorn
Illustrated by Phil Lesnie

A moving story, told completely in dialogue, about a young Australian soldier in the battle of the S ... Read More

MARCH

My Sister is a Superhero

By Damon Young
Illustrated by Peter Carnavas

Some sisters glide on scootersnext to lanes of tooting cars.But my sister is a superhero …she races ... Read More

Something Wonderful

By Raewyn Caisley

Sam likes to pull things apart and put them back together, and think about how things work. But he i ... Read More

Me, Teddy

By Chris McKimmie

Exuberant and warm, this hugely appealing book stars the author's much-loved black labrador. I am Te ... Read More

Stanley

By Colin Thompson

'It was very quiet in Stanley's house. there were no brothers or sisters, no dads or grannies, not e ... Read More

Chip

By Kylie Howarth

Chip, like most other gulls, is wild about chips. He likes fat chips, skinny chips, sandy or crunchy ... Read More

Archie

By Heath McKenzie

Archie is a little sloth who is very energetic. Archie loves to leap and swing and dance about! Howe ... Read More

FEBRUARY

No Place Like Home

By Ronojoy Ghosh

The city is no place for a polar bear like George. Being homesick is making George a terrible grump. ... Read More

The Big Fish

By Pamela Allen

Once upon a time a little old man, a little old woman, a small boy and a small girl went to spend th ... Read More

Cyclone

By Jackie French
Illustrated by Bruce Whatley

Christmas Eve 1974 is marked indelibly into the Australian psyche, as the night tropical Cyclone Tra ... Read More

Annabel’s Dance

By Diane Jackson
Illustrated by Lois Bury

Annabel is no ordinary sheep. She is wiggly and jiggly. Loud noises hurt her ears and no matter how ... Read More

Arthur and the Curiosity

By Lucinda Gifford

Arthur and his friends are on a class visit to the local museum. While his friends dash about, Arthu ... Read More

New Year Surprise!

By Christopher Cheng
Illustrated by Di Wu

Little Brother is told by his brother and his friends that he’s too small to help out at the Spring ... Read More