Great reads
The following titles are suggested books for children aged 5 to 12 years. Why not print the list and take to the library next time you visit? Visit your local public library and speak to the staff about books, resources, activities and programs that they have available for you as part of the Summer Reading Club and throughout the year.
To find your closest public library, check the directories below.
QLD NSW VIC SA ACT NT TAS WA
Untangled Tales – Primary School
- Aesop’s fables by Beverley Naidoo & Piet Grobler
- Andersen’s fairy tales retold by Friederun Reichenstetter ; illustrated by Silke Leffler
- Classic fairy tales by retold and illustrated by Michael Foreman
- Comic strip greatest Greek myths by Sally Kindberg & Tracey Turner
- Crow and the waterhole by Ambelin Kwaymullina
- Daft Jack and the bean stack by Laurence Anholt
- Eco-wolf and the three pigs by Laurence Anholt
- Enchantment : fairy tales, ghost stories and tales of wonder by Kevin Crossley-Holland ; illustrated by Emma Chichester-Clark
- Fairy tales told by Berlie Doherty ; illustrated by Jane Ray
- Fairy tale adventure crafts by Anna Llimós ; illustrated by Àlex Sagarra
- A fistful of pearls: and other tales from Iraq by Elizabeth Laird
- Folk tales & fables of the Middle East and Africa by Robert Ingpen & Barbara Hayes
- Gelam: the man from Moa by Anne Abednego Gela
- Ghostyshocks and the three scares by Laurence Anholt
- Goldilocks and the wolf by Hilary Robinson
- The Kingfisher book of fairy tales retold by Vivian French ; illustrated by Peter Malone
- Land of the dragon king and other Korean stories by Gillian McClure
- Maze of twisted tales by Peter Sheehan
- Mouldylocks and the three Clares by Sally Grindley
- Nine dragons: a contemporary fable by George Herman & Kristen Seaton
- Ogress and the snake: and other tales from Somalia by Elizabeth Laird
- The orphan: a cinderella story from Greece by Anthony L. Manna & Soula Mitakidou
- Quentin Blake’s magical tales by written by John Yeoman ; illustrated by Quentin Blake
- A riddle of green: the legend of Little Fur by Isobelle Carmody
- The secret history of Tom Trueheart: boy adventurer by Ian Beck
- Shirley Barber’s bedtime stories by Shirley Barber
- Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley
- Snow White and the enormous turnip by Hilary Robinson
- Swan sister: fairy tales retold edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
- A tale dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
- Traditional stories from native North America by Linda Raczek
- Twisted tales: six fairy tales turned inside out by Richard Tulloch & Terry Denton
- The wide-awake Princess by E.D. Baker
