Congratulations to all the amazing entries received in this year’s Pitch It! Competition for Australian writers of children’s books! Please find below the full list of qualified manuscript pitches for 2024.
Picture Book Fiction (in alphabetical order)
| A Big Splashy Hug |
| A Leap and a Lunge |
| A Weekend with Aunt Tiff |
| Abby’s Pony Club Adventure |
| Alphabeasticals |
| Amity in the Mountains |
| Amorita |
| Ants Love to Dance |
| Aria’s Perfect Sky |
| At This Table |
| Babies on Bikes |
| Beach Clean |
| Benny the (Sarcastic Fringehead) Blenny |
| Bertie Bear and the Missing Whistle |
| Big Mountain Little Emu |
| Bonny Beau – An Overdog Story |
| Bree the Bee |
| Bring Your Pet to School |
| Bush Bathing |
| But Not Me |
| Carry It Harriet |
| Catching Autumn Leaves |
| Chicken Kisses |
| Claudia the Cow Who Could Fly |
| Clementine the Dragon |
| Collecting Clouds |
| Couchsurfing the Cosmos |
| Dallas Creek Cheerleaders |
| Dancing on the Grass |
| Dizzying Heights |
| Don’t Forget Your Teeth |
| Down Halloween Street |
| Dragons, People and their Lungs |
| Emmi’s Brave |
| Fall In! |
| Fergus Fly is a Friend |
| Finn’s Fidgets |
| First Place Fears – Holli’s Big Race |
| Flea, A Tiny Tall Tale |
| Frankie’s First Day |
| Frank’s Ideas |
| Fresh Air and Oranges |
| Fun-Gus Ferguson |
| Fussy Eaters Series |
| Go Confetti! |
| Going For a Walk |
| Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Baxter |
| Gordon Tells Stories |
| Grandma’s Icky, Sticky Kisses and Yucky, Mucky Hugs |
| Grandma’s Mystery Door |
| Hand-wrapped Love |
| Hattie’s Happy Hair Day |
| Help! I’m a Giant! |
| How to Capture that Feeling |
| How to Recharge a Rainbow |
| I’m Not Cold |
| I’m Outta Here |
| In a Pickle |
| Kai the Kiwi |
| Knot Nick |
| Koeksisters |
| Leo’s Leechcraft |
| Leo’s Puppets |
| Maeve Rewrites the Stars |
| Mila and the Moon |
| Millie and Nonna Bell |
| Monster Midnight Circus |
| Mrs. Pernickity’s Garden |
| Ms. Winterbottom’s Lonely Lit House |
| My Dad is a Thief |
| My Dog was a Pirate |
| Nate Chickens Out |
| Ninja Nits |
| Not That Three |
| Oliver and Dragon |
| Panda |
| Paw You |
| Peaceful Pete |
| Pepe and Ayla |
| Pirate Rumours |
| Playful Playground |
| Radish and Stubs – The Great Snail Race |
| Rat’s Animal Academy |
| Rodney’s Tonsils and Mum’s Keys |
| Roll Over, Rover |
| RO-VA |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Velociraptor |
| Santa’s Workshop Woes |
| Saving Rainbow |
| Sayin’ Something to Fluffamuffin |
| Show and Tell |
| Sneaky Dog Harry |
| Spag Bog |
| Spud’s Mars Mission |
| Stargirl |
| Strawberry Aubrey |
| Stuart Squirrel |
| Sylvie’s Sparkle |
| Tadpole Todd Doesn’t Want to Be a Frog |
| Tell Me a Story |
| The Baddies are Coming |
| The Blue Horse |
| The Blue Quilt |
| The Book Who Hated Book Week |
| The Cloud Who Wanted to Play |
| The Colour of Friendship |
| The Dream Machine |
| The Great Leafboat Adventure |
| The Great Toy Mystery |
| The King’s New Sound |
| The Lonely Knight |
| The Meerkat Show |
| The Mostly True Story of Pamela Pobblebonk’s Pig |
| The Odd Ones |
| The Rah Rah Monsters |
| The Raven’s Rascals |
| The Staircase and the Spider |
| The Washing Line |
| The Wheels on the Bed |
| The World’s Biggest Pie Fight |
| The Worry that Ate the Universe |
| The World Needs Rainbows |
| Toasted |
| Too Many Socks |
| Twig |
| Umbel Montgomery Ingleman |
| Wally the Elephant |
| We’re Going on a Peace March |
| What’s Mine is Yours |
| Worms Can’t Swim |
| You’re Different and That’s Bad |
Picture Book Non-Fiction (in alphabetical order)
| A House for the Pebble-mound Mouse |
| All a Tree Can Be |
| Aussie Firefighter Calendar |
| Baby Mealtime Adventures |
| Colin’s Dream |
| Compare the Pair |
| I Already Know the Alphabet – Aussie Plants |
| Just the Right Size |
| Kiera, Vegemite and the Weeds |
| Many Ways to Say |
| Moon Song |
| Mummy, I Have a Funny Feeling in My Tummy |
| Octopus Hunt |
| Sarah and Sam’s Super Skating Summer |
| Slug Fest – Green Sea Sheep and Other Cute Sluggy Ocean Creatures |
| Stuart Squirrel |
| Termitropolis, a City of Tiny Ecologists |
| The A-Z of Aussie Schools |
| Turn Off the Lights |
| Why Did the Sleepy Lizard Cross the Road? |
| I’m Not Afraid of Covid |
| I Love My Awesome Body |
Junior Fiction (in alphabetical order)
| Arabella the Beakdancer |
| Archie the Rakali |
| Bacon Tries Dancing |
| Bee Girl |
| Benji’s Brown Bag |
| Evan’s Animals – Chaos |
| Food or Friend; An Alien’s Guide to Being Human #1 |
| Framed |
| Frankie and Tiny – Quest for the Invisiberry |
| Hairballs; A Fluffy Adventure |
| Half a Giraffe |
| Harry Humbug and the Sweet Escape |
| Iggy Erkelstine – Fictional Friend |
| Jed Ivan Knight Spy |
| Mason McCluskey |
| Myra in the Middle |
| Nellie Nipper – Dive Right In! |
| The Boy and the Bubble |
| The Invisibles |
| The World According to Clementine Peach (The Super Special Party) |
| They Who Paint Rainbows |
| Zoo Land Down Under |
Middle Grade (in alphabetical order)
| Billy the Brave |
| Cave Girl Aidy Hates HunGa Day! |
| Cooper and Noah A |
| Edgewood Primary Detective Agency – Case of the Camp Ghost |
| Edgewood Primary Detective Agency – Case of the Missing Lunch |
| Grow Up, Charlie Wiggins! |
| Heidi the Bloaty Goaty |
| Lola Lucksford |
| Looking For Grandpa |
| Mackenzie Millar and the Pull Chain Dunny |
| Main Character Syndrome |
| Monsters Don’t Say Sorry |
| Oliver Oates is Not Stealing Goats |
| Olive’s Table |
| Skyborn – Finding Misty |
| SODO – The Missing Agent |
| The Alien Guard |
| The Brave Mission |
| The Essence |
| The Fell Millipede |
| The Lost and Found Department |
| The Moa Riders |
| The Pedlar’s Daughter |
| The Pickey Boys of Dead Dog Mine |
| The Prime Minister Problem |
| The Seventh Nautilus |
| Tuli’s Inferno |
| Velvet Krave |
| Wonder World |