My Dream Holiday

Ash Barty and her creative team bring something warm and specific to the picture-book holiday genre — a First Nations family's annual return to Minjerribah, told with the kind of sensory detail that makes a place feel real. The universal pleasures of fishing, campfire stories, and whale spotting give it reach beyond Australian readers, and Jade Goodwin's illustrations make it visually distinctive. Brief, but what's here counts.