Johanna Bell

SHORT-LISTED 2020 Prime Minister's Literary Award Every morning Is it time yet? Nearly Joie says. Out of the freezer comes the meat. Bones and sausages and chicken necks. Butcher knife on the bricks, me chopping up. Be careful! Or you'll cut your finger off. We can't have that Joie says. Meet deaf artist, Dion Beasley, and the people he calls...

From award-winning author Johanna Bell and exciting new illustrator Huni Melissa Bolliger comes a playful story about what's possible when you let your curiosity run wild. Digger Digs Down. Digger digs deep, deep into the ground. Join happy-go-lucky Digger as he ditches the boredom of backyard life for an underground adventure. What will he find? What won't he find? Packed...

WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year, Early Childhood, 2017WINNER: Territory Read Awards, Children's or Young Adult, 2018 At Canteen Creek where we live, there are cheeky dogs everywhere. But when the cheeky goats, donkeys, buffaloes and camels make mischief in the camp, the dogs just lie there - until those pesky animals really go too far. Then the cheeky camp...

WINNER: 2024 CBCA Book of the Year, Award for New Illustrator WINNER: 2024 Environment Award for Children's Literature - Picture Fiction A 2023 Listener NZ Top Children's Book Hope is a kookaburra singing the sun Hope is the emu learning to run ... Let your imagination soar in this joyful ode to the world of birds and the healing power...

SHORTLISTED: 2025 Speech Pathology Awards, Birth to Three Years Category Searching for treasure on the high tide line. One step, two steps, what can you find? A walk on the beach becomes a joyous, creative adventure. What has the sea washed up? Can you find its hidden treasures? Find sea urchins and shark's eggs, ghost crabs and cuttlefish, limpets and...

'On Monday I went to my auntie's house and guess what I saw? ONE yellow cheeky dog sleeping on the floor.'So begins this cheeky story set in a remote Indigenous community, romping through numbers, colours and days of the week to the hilarious finale.'A fun way of helping young readers learn their colours and days of the week ... a...

KRIOL LANGUAGE EDITION - NO ENGLISHMandeitaim aibin wok la main anti kemp en yu sabi wanim aibin luk?So begins this Kriol edition of the bestselling cheeky book set in a remote Indigenous community, romping through numbers, colours and days of the week to the hilarious finale.'A fun way of helping young readers learn their colours and days of the week...

PITJANTJATJARA EDITION - NO ENGLISHMantaina anu ngayuku kuntiliku walikutu. Nyaana puta nyangu?So begins this Pitjantjatjara edition of the bestselling cheeky book set in a remote Indigenous community, romping through numbers, colours and days of the week to the hilarious finale.'A fun way of helping young readers learn their colours and days of the week... a wonderful glimpse into life in...

ANINDILYAKWA EDITION - NO ENGLISH'Monday-yada ngayuwa ningilikenu-ma dungwuyarrki-languwa alikira biya yakwujina amiyembena ningirringkama?' So begins this Anindilyakwa edition of the bestselling cheeky book set in a remote community, romping through numbers, colours and days of the week to the hilarious finale.'A fun way of helping young readers learn their colours and days of the week ... a wonderful glimpse into...

What is a Dot? when a dot is not? Is it a swish? A sweep? Or a swirl? Is it a scurry? A wave? Or a pearl? Explore the joy of drawing in this lively book where a dot can be anything you want it to be.

Before the Anthropocene, the air pulsed with birdsong. Now, a silence is falling.Ava spends her days at The Department, rebuilding lost species from the remaining fragments of art and scientific data. Her dying mother thinks she should quit. So does her lover, and the sex workers who loiter outside her apartment. But when a ghost from her past shows up,...

From the creative team behind What is a Dot? comes this lively book about finding all kinds of wonderful stories in abstract images and making art from anything. Sometimes a splat is just a splat but sometimes a splat is much more than that! Experience the fun of transforming abstract shapes into just about anything with this playful rhyming book....