Welcome to Walker Books Australia
Walker Wednesday allows authors to submit their manuscripts to Walker Books’ award-winning editorial team on the first Wednesday of each month. We are currently accepting submissions of middle-grade and young adult fiction from Australian and New Zealand authors.
Walker Books Australia is the leading children’s publisher in Australia and New Zealand.
Release
By Patrick Ness
Paperback, AUS $16.99, NZ $18.99
A startling and tender novel about how to let yourself love and set yourself free by Patrick Ness, the twice Carnegie Medal-winning author of A Monster Calls.
Square
By Mac Barnett
Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Hardback, AUS $24.99, NZ $27.99
From the dynamic, dream team of Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett comes the second instalment in the exciting new shape trilogy.
William Wenton and the Secret Portal
By Bobbie Peers
Paperback, AUS $14.99, NZ $16.99
The second book in the gripping fantasy-adventure series, packed with code-breaking, cyber-technology and a boy hero with a supernatural destiny.
A Stone for Sascha
By Aaron Becker
Illustrated by Aaron Becker
Hardback, AUS $27.99, NZ $29.99
A girl grieves the loss of her dog in an achingly beautiful wordless epic from the Caldecott Honor–winning creator of Journey.
The Princess in Black and the Mysterious Playdate
By Dean Hale, Shannon Hale
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Paperback, AUS $9.99, NZ $11.99
Noseholes and elephants! A pet-eating monster interrupts a perfect playdate with Princess Sneezewort. . . . But who is that new masked avenger?