Karen Foxlee

WINNER: 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's LiteratureWINNER: 2019 QLD Literary Awards, Griffith University Young Adult Book AwardHONOUR BOOK: 2019 CBCA Book of the Year, Older ReadersSHORT-LISTED: 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult FictionNOMINATED: 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal Lenny, small and sharp, has a younger brother Davey who won't stop growing - and at...

HONOUR BOOK: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers SHORT-LISTED: 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Children's Literature How to save a dragon: Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors. Believe in everything. Pip never wants to go home. She likes to sit at the waterhole at dusk and remember Mika, her best friend. At home her mother's...

'A fabulous magical quest, strange and wonderful.' Judith Rossell, bestselling author of The Midwatch Lavender Wolfe is a clapperdudgeon, pickpurse and all alone on a wharf when she is snatched by Big Agatha and thrown into the galley of a pirate ship, The Good Marchioness. Disguised as a boy (for only boys may live in the galley) and renamed Hans...

HONOUR BOOK: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers SHORTLISTED: 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Children's Literature WINNER: 2021 Aurealis Award 'Surprising, beautiful, unique.' Katrina Nannestad, award-winning author of All the Beautiful Things How to save a dragon: Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors. Believe in everything. Pip never wants to go home. She likes to...

SHORTLISTED: 2024 Best Children's Fiction, Aurealis Awards 'Funny and fast-paced. A thrilling combination of courage, kindness and a cleverness of the heart.' Anna Fienberg, bestselling co-author of TashiMary-Kate and her granny are going to stay at a very quiet castle near a very quiet Loch in the Scottish village of Bonkillyknock. The perfect destination for reading beside fireplaces, going for...

Mary-Kate and her mother are visiting Galinios, an idyllic Greek Island filled with history and surrounded by the shimmering Aegean Sea. An ancient mosaic has been unearthed at the local sardine processing plant and Professor Martin must investigate, leaving Mary-Kate to enjoy a few days of sunshine and antiquity.But a message asking for help changes everything. A wrecked boat and...

SHORTLISTED: 2024 DANZ Children's Book Awards, Best Middle Grade Book LONGLISTED: 2024 UKLA Book Awards, Ages 7-10+There are those who hunt monsters to harm them and there are those who hunt monsters to help them. Which one are you?Dressed in sparkly red shoes and carrying her strawberry-scented notebook, Mary-Kate is accompanying her archaeologist mother to the tranquil English countryside to...

Award-winning children's fiction author Karen Foxlee makes her picture book debut with this classic hero story about the difference one small voice can make. In a very fine house, on a very grand street, Lived the tiniest mouse you could possibly meet. The youngest of twelve, he was timid and slight, But he was always, ALWAYS very polite. When tiny...