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Aleesah Darlison
Primary Lower Years (Prep – 2) | Primary Middle Years (Years 3 – 4) | Primary Upper Years (Years 5 – 6) | Secondary Lower Years (Years 7 – 8) | Secondary Middle Years (Years 9 – 10) | Secondary Senior Years (Years 11 – 12)
Queensland

Aleesah Darlison is one of Australia’s most popular, award-winning children’s authors. She has published over 65 books and is known for her stories that champion the cause of animals and the environment and for her stories that empower children.

Aleesah has won or been shortlisted for many awards including the Book Excellence Awards, the Environment Award for Children’s Literature, the CBCA Awards, and the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards. In 2021, she was awarded an Australia Day honour from the Sunshine Coast Council.

Aleesah’s titles include the League of Llamas Series, the Super Sloth Series, the Space Kids Series, the Endangered Animal Tales Series, Puggle’s Problem, Warambi, The Dream Bird, Little Good Wolf, and Running from the Tiger.

Books by Aleesah Darlison

COMING SOON! Grace the Amazing

Best Suited 8+ Yeras
Grace Marshall is eleven years old. She’s curious, precocious, and eccentric. Her only true friend is her art teacher, Pamela. When Grace discovers that Pamela is dying, she embarks on a journey to find a cure for Pamela using miraculous magic. While doing so she asks the big questions about life, love, friendship, and death.

Super Sloth Episode 1: The Shar-Wolf of New York City

Best Suited 7-12 Years
In this origin story, pygmy sloth, Romeo Fortez, is born on remote Escudo Island. At his naming ceremony, a once-in-a-millennium event imbibes him with powers of speed, intelligence, and irresistibly hypnotic good looks. When Romeo moves to New York he discovers that Professor Ian Weird-Warp, a geneticist obsessed with splicing animal genes together, has unleashed a gigantic mutant shar-wolf on the city. With the help of some new human and animal friends, Romeo forms a team of crime fighters to save the city from the evil Professor Weird-Warp and his mutant creation.

Super Sloth Episode 2: Revenge of the Chick-Oats

Romeo’s nemesis, the unhinged Professor Ian Weird-Warp, is at it again. Bent on revenge, he concocts a quirky catastrophe. Mixing chicken and goat genes, he spawns a gang of eccentric chick-oats and they’re on the loose in the Big Apple, destroying everything in their path all the while chanting, ‘Berk-berk-baa!’
As the team faces off against Professor Weird-Warp’s sinister demands for Romeo’s surrender, they must hatch a brilliant plan to thwart the mad professor’s wicked schemes once and for all.
Can this unlikely crew save the city from the clutches of the chick-oats?

Space Kids: Blast Off!

Best Suited 7-12 Years
Get ready to blast off on a fun-filled, fast-paced adventure that’s out of this world!

It’s the inaugural Milky Way Space Race and teams from around the world converge on race host, Misty Space Station, to compete.  When billionaire inventor, Cooper Borgstein and his son, Finn, invite the Space Kids to race with them in their blaster ship, Ventura, it’s an opportunity too good to pass up. But when competitors take it too far and push the rules and each other to the limit, lives are put in danger. Things spiral out of control and its up to Nash and the other Space Kids to save the day.

Space Kids: Mars Mission

The year is 2088. Eleven-year-old Nash now lives full-time on Misty Space Station with his father, Orson. His best friends on the holiday spaceship are Raj and KC.  When a distress signal is received on Misty Space Station from a colony of researchers and scientists living on Mars, Captain Malik decides to send an urgent supply mission.  Given the vast distance to Mars, the only way Nash, his brilliant father,  Orson, and the Space Kids can reach them in time is using an experimental technology: a powerful space cruiser that travels faster than any vehicle ever invented before.   Their courage, teamwork, and resourcefulness will be crucial if they have any hope of completing their daring supply and rescue mission.

Space Kids: Sabotage

Best Suited 7-12 Years
Welcome to the world of Misty Space Station and intergalactic adventure! The Space Kids live far from Earth on Misty Space Station. While their parents are involved in maintaining the station and welcoming tourists, the kids get themselves into all sorts of hilarious and dangerous adventures. When eleven-year-old Nash arrives on Misty Space Station, he meets new friends, the Space Kids. But danger awaits the trio. It appears that someone is sabotaging Misty. Could it be grumpy Mr Nakimoto? Will they solve the mystery and save the space station? And, just who is their new friend Bingo Crafter?

Fox and Moonbeam

It is Victorian England and Gerard Fox winds clocks for the queen. His lowly status means he lives in a world forever surrounded by shadows. Mademoiselle Moonbeam Lapin is a famous ballerina. She lives in the golden glow of stage lights. When Moonbeam offers Fox her friendship, both of their worlds are transformed forever. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Fox and Moonbeam is an enchanting tale of friendship, self-belief and finding the courage to step into the light.

Puggle’s Problem

Best Suited 3+ Years
Pipp Puggle is a tiny echidna with a big problem.His spines simply will not come. Tired of waiting for them to appear, Pipp sets out on a quest to make them grow.

Endangered Animal Tales 1: Coco, the Fish with Hands

Best Suited 3+ Years
Coco is a sweet, tiny fish . . . with hands!

Come on a journey with Coco the spotted handfish as she searches for a mate and looks for a safe place to hatch her eggs. Go, Coco!

Meet some of Australia’s cutest and most vulnerable wildlife in the Endangered Animal Tales picture book series

Endangered Animal Tales 2: Poppy, the Punk Turtle

Best Suited 3+ Years
Poppy is one groovy turtle!

Join Poppy the Mary River turtle on an adventure to find a new waterhole to call home. Plip! Plop! Parp!

Meet some of Australia’s cutest and most vulnerable wildlife in the Endangered Animal Tales picture book series.

Endangered Animal Tales 3: Rusty, the Rainbow Bird

Best Suited 3+ Years
Rusty is a rainbow bird!

Fly with Rusty the Gouldian finch as he searches for a mate and saves his young family from fire.

The next book in the Endangered Animal Tales picture book series, highlighting unique Australian animals.

Endangered Animal Tales 4: Banjo, the Woylie with Bounce

Best Suited 3+ Years
Banjo is a tiny woylie joey.

Bounce with Banjo as he escapes from danger and searches for a safe place to call home.

The next book in the Endangered Animal Tales picture book series, highlighting unique Australian animals.

League of Llamas 1: The Golden Llama

Best Suited 6-9 Years
The League of Llamas (LOL) are a group of secret llama agents and they’re on a mission to save the world – if only Agent 0011 Phillipe Llamar could stop looking in the mirror at his luxurious fringe and Agent 0013 Lloyd Llamanator could resist the temptation to eat everything in his path! There’s also the thieving General Bottomburp to contend with and a mysterious lady llama in red.

Can Phillipe and Lloyd foil the evil plans of Bottomburp and his badger henchmen? The fate of the Llama Republic’s most prized relic, the Golden Llama, depends on it!

League of Llamas 2: Llama Impossible

Best Suited 6-9 Years
A train speeding out of control, a bold bank robbery and a dazzling diamond heist – trouble is afoot in New Llama City! Luckily, the League of Llamas’ top agents, Phillipe and Lloyd, are on the case. And luckily for them, Mama Llama and agent Elloise Llamaresky are on their cases to make sure the job actually gets done.

Is the odious badger General Bottomburp to blame? Or could there be a new kingpin in town? After all, every secret agent should know that appearances can be deceiving!

League of Llamas 3: Undercover Llamas

Best Suited 6-9 Years
After failing to apprehend some dangerously peck-happy hens, the League of Llamas are going undercover! But these aren’t any ordinary secret identities – Phillipe, Lloyd and Elloise are joining Bruno Llamars (and his grumpy manager, Wally Chimpopo) as band members on the pop star’s next tour . . . to Chickenlovakia.

As the stakes – and tensions – climb higher and higher, will the LOL agents’ cover be blown before they can track down their feathery foes? Only time and some rather alarming discoveries will tell!

League of Llamas 4: Rogue Llama

Best Suited 6-9 Years
League of Llamas secret agent Phillipe Llamar is on the run! Determined to clear his name after being framed for a crime he didn’t commit, Phillipe dons a disguise and goes on the hunt for the true criminal – one Ratrick Tailbiter. But the more Phillipe investigates, the less the case makes sense and the more things start becoming suspiciously . . . smelly.

From Ratopia to Catagonia, Phillipe’s journey leads him far from home. Will he be able to solve this mystery alone? Hunted by friends and enemies alike, this is Agent 0011’s most daring adventure yet!

The Daddy Shop

The Father and Son Picnic is coming up, but Daddy cant go with Tai because hes working. When Tai hears about The Daddy Shop, he takes matters into his own paws and tries out some new daddies. Around-the-House Daddy loves doing chores and Out-and-About Daddy plays all day long. But which daddy will be the best one for Tai?

The Dream Bird

Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived the rarest of rare birds. The Dream Bird. George is a day child. He rollicks and romps in the light. But at night, George just cant seem to get to sleep. That is, until Gran tells him a bedtime story about a magical bird who sings children to sleep. Will the Dream Birds magic work on George? A stunning bedtime book that will enchant readers young and old.

Yay! It’s Library Day

Oliver and Ivy love visiting the library with their dad. With stories and their imaginations guiding them, the children go on grand ocean adventures, visit fairy-tale lands, watch elephants dancing in tuxedos and fly across the sapphire sky on a magic carpet.

Emerald The Green turtles tale

Emerald the GreenTurtle hatches from her egg and, with her many sisters, makes her perilous journey to the beckoning sea. An Endangered Species Wildlife Book.

Mama and Hug

When Hug first climbs out of his mother’s pouch it is spring, deep in the Australian Bush. As Hug grows, the season changes to the sharp dry crackle of summer. One day danger comes to the Bush and Mama must flee to protect her baby.

Little Meerkat

Best Suited 3+ Years
Little Meerkat craves independence and adventure in his life. His extended family, of Mum, Dad, Aunty, Uncle, Sister and Brother, are there to guide and protect him.

Awesome Animal Stories for Kids

12 enchanting animal stories for kids!

Hear the legend of Alvarado, king of the cats. Experience the extraordinary tale of survival of an orphan foal. Discover magical sea creatures on a beach adventure. Find out the problem with pets from outer space, and solve a puzzling pig-napping.

These great stories and more inside Awesome Animal Stories for Kids!

Spider Iggy

Best Suited 4-7 Years
No one ever seems to notice Spider Iggy. Determined to leave his ‘hohum’ life behind, brave Iggy sets out on an adventure to find the one place he can finally fit in. Home.

Little Good Wolf

Little Good Wolf wants to be liked and to have friends. He wants to belong. But Little Good Wolf has one HUGE problem. His dad is the Big Bad Wolf, the most feared villain in all of Fairytale Land.

Free

Best Suited 4-11 Years

As Flynn watched everyone having fun, sadness swarmed inside him, and then, he spotted the bird.

Weightless. Free. It skated across the sun-splashed sky, painting the earth below with its shadow. That’s how I want to be, thought Flynn.

A sensitive and nurturing story about a boy who is finding life difficult after being confined to a wheelchair. Flynn’s story will inspire children and adults to look beyond their current situation and to dream for their own greatness and freedom

 

Running from the Tiger

Best Suited 9-12 Years
When eleven-year-old Ebony meets enigmatic Teena, they instantly become much more than the ‘default’ friends Ebony has grown used to having. Only when the girls come to trust one another fully do they unlock each other’s troubling secrets, enabling their friendship to deepen.

Totally Twins, The Fabulous Diary of Persephone Pinchgut 1: Musical Mayhem

Best Suited 9-11 Years
Persephone begins writing her own personal SECRET diary. She is horrified when she has to audition for the school musical and takes comfort in writing down her most SECRET thoughts. The Heartfield Heights Musical Extravaganza soon launches into full swing, much to Persephone’s dismay and her sister Portia’s jubilation.

Totally Twins, The Fabulous Diary of Persephone Pinchgut 2: Model Mania

Best Suited 9-12 Years
Portia is determined to become the next top model. Persephone thinks she is DELUSIONAL. Persephone spends hours on the couch at the Heavenly Models Agency writing her diary, rolling her eyes and sneezing from the toxic fumes of hairspray, perfume and makeup. Follow the next hilarious Totally Twins adventure as Portia sets her sights on a modelling career

Totally Twins, The Fabulous Diary of Persephone Pinchgut 3: Tropical Trouble

Best Suited 9-12 Years
Perse is set for a fun and exciting holiday, but there’s just one catch. The girls’ annoying seven-year-old next door neighbour, Dillon Pickleton, is going with them! In Perse’s greatest adventure yet she faces the perils of sailing the open seas, swimming with sharks and a dreaded dance-off. In her own hilarious and inimitable style, Perse deals with issues of popularity, fitting in and finding yourself.

Totally Twins, The Fabulous Diary of Persephone Pinchgut 4: Birthday Bonanza

Best Suited 9-12 Years
Perse and her twin, Portia, are about to turn 11. How will they celebrate their birthday? Will shy Perse want the same outrageous party as Portia? Birthday Bonanza is full of surprises! Follow the hilarious adventure as Perse and Portia plan their party and receive a few unexpected presents.

Ash Rover Book 1: Keeper of the Phoenix

Ash Rover wants to do something important with his life. When he discovers a phoenix egg, he gets his wish. But the magical bird brings trouble to Ash’s village. Soon Ash is not only the unlikely Keeper of the Phoenix, he is also on a desperate quest to save his family and friends.

Courtney Little: Hauntings and Hexes

Best Suited 7+ Years
New home. New school. New friends. And new enemies.. But as a ”witch-in-training” fitting in isn’t the easiest thing to do. When a malevolent spirit bent on revenge is released into the world things get dangerous for Courtney and those closest to her. Will she be able to save the day and keep her growing powers a secret?

Courtney Little: Plots and Potions

Best Suited 7+ Years
Courtney Little never knew her grandmother but it seems Delia wants to make her presence felt. Dad isn’t saying why he left Mixton Bay years ago, and now strange things are happening in her gransmother’s old house.  When Courtney finds a mystical ”Book of Spells” with her name on the box, and she meets Ink the talking cat, and Justice, the surfer boy with a secret of  his own, her boring holiday starts to get a lot more interesting.

Courtney Little: Secrets and Spells

Best Suited 7+ Years
Courtney Little never knew her grandmother but it seems Delia wants to make her presence felt. Dad isn’t saying why he left Mixton Bay years ago, and now strange things are happening in her gransmother’s old house. When Courtney finds a mystical ”Book of Spells” with her name on the box,and she meets Ink the talking cat, and Justice, the surfer boy with a secret of his own, her boring holiday starts to get a lot more interesting.

 

Unicorn Rider 1: Quinn’s Riddle

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

Unicorn Riders 2: Willow’s Challenge

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

Unicorn Riders 3: Crystal Choice

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

Unicorn Riders 4: Elizabeth’s Test

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

Unicorn Riders 5: Quinn’s Truth

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

Unicorn Riders 6: Willow’s Victory

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

Unicorn Riders 7: Crystal’s Charge

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

Unicorn Riders 8: Elizabeth’s Light

Best Suited 8+ Years
Unicorn Riders is a fabulous fantasy adventure series for girls aged eight and over. There are eight books in the series. The stories are set in the magical, mystical kingdom of Avamay. The Unicorn Riders protect their people with courage and skill. They ride as one. There are four Riders and each is assigned to care for a unicorn that is as unique as they are.

The Riders are: Willow, Quinn, Krystal and Ellabeth. The unicorns are: Obecky, Ula, Estrella and Fayza. The Unicorn Riders’ motto is: WE RIDE AS ONE!

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