You can also read our list of top junior and middle fiction and non-fiction titles here, and top young adult titles here.
Horrible Harriet by Leigh Hobbs
Bear and Chook by Emma Quay and Lisa Shanahan
Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley (read our review here)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (read our review here)
I’m a Dirty Dinosaur by Janeen Brian and Ann James (read our review here)
The Rain Train By Elena De Roo and Brian Lovelock (read our review here)
Rudie Nudie by Emma Quay
The Memory Tree by Britta Teckentrup
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (read our review here)
Woolvs in the Sitee by Margaret Wild and Anne Spudvilas
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury (read our review here)
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Home and Away by John Marsden and Matt Ottley
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (read our review here)
Mirror by Jeannie Baker (read our review here)
Grandmother Fish, A Child’s First Book of Evolution by Jonathan Tweet and Karen Lewis
Belonging by Jeannie Baker
Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball by Vicki Churchill and Charles Fuge (read our review here)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
At the End of Holyrood Lane by Dimity Powell and Nicky Johnston (read our review here)
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett (read our review here)
Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks (read our review here)
Peggy by Anna Walker (read our review here)
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton
The Day The Crayons Quit by Oliver Jeffers (read our review here)
The Duck and The Darklings by Glenda Miller and Stephen Michael King (read our review here)
The Lion and the Bird by Marianne Dubuc (read our review here)
I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen (read our review here)
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts (read our review here)
The Book of Trees by Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski