Audiobooks
We are excited to share a special collection of audiobooks in partnership with Bolinda BorrowBox.
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Our audiobook collection offers an enticing invitation to enter different worlds, cultures and experiences. So plug in to your phone, laptop, ipad or desktop and enjoy this amazing collection.
Luna Boo has Feelings Too
Written by: Sally Rippin
Narrated by: Gareth Prosser
Recommended for 5+
In this hilarious story from the bestselling School of Monsters series, Luna learns how to use her voice.
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No-one likes to be left out This makes Luna scream and shout! Luna's a ghost, so her classmates can't see how she feels when they accidentally leave her out of their games. Will showing her true colours help her – or scare them away for good?
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Search for this month’s feature title under audiobooks. Enjoy!
Sally's Spotlight
The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and Baffling Bully
Written by: Katrina Nannestad
Narrated by: Emmanuelle Mattana
Recommended for 7+
The right book might just change your life.
Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home.
Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda. Mim knows they're here to help Willemina. To change her life. To make her strong and brave and happy. If only Dad would find her the right book. If only he would stop giving everyone else the wrong book
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Why Sally chose this book
Katrina Nannestad’s Travelling Bookshop series follows Mim, a spirited young girl who roams in a travelling bookshop. But this isn’t any ordinary bookshop: the right book always finds the right person at just the right time.
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As an advocate for inclusive, accessible storytelling that meets children on their level, especially reluctant readers, I deeply believe in the power of connection. Sometimes it’s not always about what adults think a child should read. It’s about what makes their eyes light up. That’s the book that matters.
In this series, Katrina echoes this belief that stories can offer not just escape, but comfort, courage, and sometimes even transformation. And that, often, it’s not the child who finds the book — but the book that finds the child.
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Each story is set in a different country or town, where the family arrives, meets people in need of a little help (or a little magic, which I’m all about!), and somehow, through Mim's curiosity and her father's unusual ways, the perfect book ends up changing someone’s life, or at least their outlook.
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Listening to it as an audiobook brings Mim’s world vividly to life. This charming, whimsical collection of junior fiction celebrates books, kindness, and the magic of stories. Emmanuelle Mattana’s narration is expressive, clear, and full of warmth, making it especially ideal for young listeners who might be developing confidence in reading.
About the Author
Katrina Nannestad is an award-winning Australian author. Her books include the CBCA-shortlisted We Are Wolves, The Girl Who Brought Mischief, the Travelling Bookshop series, the Girl, the Dog and the Writer series, the Olive of Groves series, the Red Dirt Diaries series, the Lottie Perkins series, and the historical novels Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief and Waiting for the Storks.
Photo credit: Photo by Leon Schoots
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inspire people to live their best lives through the power of storytelling. BorrowBox is a digital library experience that gives readers and listeners access to thousands of eBooks and eAudiobooks for free, with nothing more than a quick download and the details on their library card.