What does adventure mean to you?
This year’s CBCA Book Week theme is ‘Book An Adventure’ and it got the Your Kid’s Next Read team thinking about the many different types of adventure stories there are – and the many brilliant adventure books for kids out there that tell them.
From epic fantasy adventure stories to contemporary survival stories to science fiction and more, adventure books for kids cover all genres and all age groups from picture books to young adult.
We’ve put together a list of (mostly) new adventure stories – (mostly) because there were a few older favourites suggested by the YKNR community, and some we couldn’t leave off either.
Whether you’re looking for inspiration for a CBCA Book Week costume, or something new for your young reader, you’ll find everything here from heart-pounding thrillers to beautiful picture books to stories that incorporate romance (surely one of the greatest adventures of all?), fantasy and even a zombie or two.
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Adventure books for kids of all ages
Picture books
‘One Day’ by Shirley Marr, Illustrated by Michael Speechley
‘George Goes to the Farm’ by Sinead Saint
‘Adventures on the Dreaming Path’ by Paul Callaghan, illustrated by Dylan Finney
‘Beware The Deep, Dark Forest’ by Sue Whiting, illustrated by Annie White
‘A Little Stuck’ by Oliver Jeffers
‘The Colt From Old Regret’ by Dianne Wolfer & Erica Wagner
‘The Girl and the Mermaid’ by Hollie Hughes and Sarah Massini
‘Alexander’s Outing’ (board book) by Pamela Allen
‘We Live In A Bus’ by Dave Petzold
‘South With The Seabirds’ by Jess McGeachin
Junior Fiction
‘Showerland’ (series) by Nat Amoore, illustrated by James Hart
‘Junkyard Fairies’ (series) Edwina Wyatt, illustrated by Lauren O’Hara
‘Detective Galileo’ by Peter Helliar, illustrated by Andrew Joyner
‘Detective Beans’ (series) by Li Chen
‘Tawny Trouble’ by Deb Fitzpatrick
‘Tashi’ (series) by Anna and Barbara Fienberg and Kim Gamble
‘Cat on the Run’ by Aaron Blabey
‘Frog Squad’ (series) by Kate & Jol Temple, illustrated by Shiloh Gordon
‘The Marvellous Submarine’ by Clayton Zane Comber and Conor McCammon
‘Sunny & Shadow’ by Helen Milroy
Bravepaw (series) by L.M. Wilkinson. Illustrated by Lavanya Naidi
‘Miss Penny Dreadful’ (series) by Allison Rushby
‘Ducky The Spy’ (series) by Sean E. Avery
‘Secret Agent Mole’ (series) by James Foley
Middle Grade
‘The Silken Thread’ by Gabrielle Wang
‘Into the Bewilderness’ by Gus Gordon
‘The Last Journey’ by Stacy Gregg
‘Spy Academy’ (series) by Jack Heath
‘Big Trouble’ (series) by Lachlan Carter and Douglas Holgate
‘I Survived’ (series, various authors)
‘How To Sail To Somewhere’ by Ashleigh Barton
The Mapmaker Chronicles (series) by A. L. Tait
‘Jungle Escape’ by Nathan Luff
‘When This Bell Rings’ by Allison Rushby
‘The First Summer of Callie McGee’ by A. L. Tait
‘Wylah The Koorie Warrior’ (series) by Jordan Gould and Richard Pritchard
‘Wildsmith: Into the Dark Forest’ by Liz Flanagan, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton
‘We are Wolves’ by Katrina Nannestad
‘Spirit of the Crocodile’ by Aaron Fa’Aoso, Michelle Scott Tucker, with Lyn White
‘The Surface Trials’ by H. M. Waugh
Young Adult
‘Lady’s Knight’ by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
‘Of Flame and Fury’ by Mikayla Bridge
‘Divine Rivals’ by Rebecca Ross
‘The Lovely and the Lost’ by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
‘We Saw What You Started’ by Carla Salmon
‘Into The Wild’ by Hayley Lawrence
‘Tracks Of The Missing’ by Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler
‘Into the Mouth of the Wolf’ by Erin Gough
‘We Won’t All Survive’ by Kate Alice Marshall
‘Liar’s Test’ by Ambelin Kwaymullina
‘Wandering Wild’ by Lynette Noni
‘Sunny At The End Of The World’ by Steph Bowe
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I’m Allison Tait, aka A.L. Tait, and I’m the author of 11 middle-grade novels, including adventure fantasy series such as The Mapmaker Chronicles, The Ateban Cipher, and the Maven & Reeve Mysteries, and contemporary stories including THE FIRST SUMMER OF CALLIE McGEE, WILLOW BRIGHT’S SECRET PLOT and DANGER ROAD (July 25).
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