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Activate Alice Storytime Sessions For Kids Ignites Imaginations | Red Kangaroo Books

Activate Alice Storytime Sessions For Kids Ignites Imaginations | Red Kangaroo Books

Looking to introduce your little one to the wonderful world of books and storytelling in a way that's both fun and educational? Look no further.  Finding ways to fill your days with a baby or toddl...

Local Central Australia Author Tanya Heaslip and her return to Prague

Local Central Australia Author Tanya Heaslip and her return to Prague

Tanya Heaslip is a local Australian author from outback Central Australia who has spent much of her life traversing the ‘road less travelled’. Having grown up...

GUEST BLOG | Alice to Prague Returns Home By Tanya Heaslip

GUEST BLOG | Alice to Prague Returns Home By Tanya Heaslip

So it wasn’t until June 2023 – nearly 30 years from my first visit – that I took Alice to Prague home. When I finally arrived, book clutched in hand as tightly as the piece of Wall had been all tho...

What genre you should read next. Books in 2024

What genre you should read next. Books in 2024

Many of us are guilty of becoming accustomed to our favourite book genres, usually not reaching too far from what we know and are comfortable with. And that’s...

4 book-to-film adaptions we’re loving

4 book-to-film adaptions we’re loving

For readers who don’t have a preference for reading or watching their favourite characters and their narratives, here are four recent or coming soon book-to-film adaptions we’re loving right now. 

Book Gift Guide: 3 Must-Read Indigenous Books for Young Adults

Book Gift Guide: 3 Must-Read Indigenous Books for Young Adults

Our collection includes a wide range of books that celebrate the vibrant storytelling traditions of First Nations peoples. From picture books to young adult novels, we have something special in st...

Book Gift Guide: Australian First Nations Edition

Book Gift Guide: Australian First Nations Edition

If you're looking for First Nations books to gift, we have hand-picked a selection of stand-out First Nations fiction books that would make excellent gifts. Here are five recommendations from our ...

Book Gift Guide: Australian Author Edition

Book Gift Guide: Australian Author Edition

If you’ve been browsing #booktok in search of the best books to give as presents, but are still undecided, look no further.  At Red Kangaroo Books, we specialise in books by Australian authors. We...

ReviewsAtunymanama

Atunymanama by NPY Women's Council

Review by Jane Lloyd Atunymanama (AH-tuhn-mahn-ah-mah) the latest publication from NPY Women's Council celebrates and encourages Anangu men - fathers and grandfathers as care-givers, teachers a...

Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths Book Review

Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths

Winner, 2020 Felicia A. Holton Book Award Winner, 2020 Max Crawford Medal Winner, 2019 Ernest Scott Prize Winner, Book of the Year at the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Winner, D...