
Written & illustrated by James Foley
🇦🇺🇳🇿 Australia/NZ edition:
published by Fremantle Press, 2nd November 2021
ISBN: 9781760990732 (hardback)
🇹🇷 Türkçe baskı (Turkish edition) ‘Yildizfilosu’
İthaki Çocuk, December 2021
Çeviren: İdil Koçak
ISBN: 9786257360487 (paperback)
🇺🇸🇨🇦 USA/Canada edition:
published by Kane Miller Books, 1st January 2022
ISBN: 9781684644247 (hardback)
Heroes come in all shapes, sizes and species.
Stella wants to be an astronaut. There is only one problem: Stella is an elephant.
Every time she applies to Space Command, they come up with a new reason she can’t join. But where there’s a will, there’s a way and Stella is determined to reach for the stars.
Does she have the right stuff?
Teacher Resources
Awards

Shortlisted Book
2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia
Picture Book of the Year

Shortlisted Book
2021 WA Premier’s Book Awards
The Premier’s Prize for Writing for Children

Shortlisted Book
2021 Aurealis Awards
Best Children’s Fiction

Shortlisted Book
2022 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Crystal Kite Award (members’ choice)
Australia/New Zealand region

Shortlisted Book
Speech Pathology Australia
2022 Book of the Year Awards
Reviews
Book trailer
Stellarphant read-aloud on Story Box Library
You can watch and listen as Jillian Nguyen reads Stellarphant on the Story Box Library website.
Here’s a teaser:
News / Behind-the-Scenes
Check out my blog for the latest posts about Stellarphant.
Gallery









Sincere thanks to:

… the WA DLGSC, who provided me with a grant to produce the final artwork of Stellarphant.
Buy from your local Australian bookshop:
Buy Stellarphant in PERTH, WA:
– Paper Bird
– The Literature Centre
– Open Book
– Boffins
– Beaufort Street Books
– Rabble Books & Games
– Collins Cottesloe
– Crow Books
– Fremantle Press
– Paperbark Merchants, Albany (you can’t order online but it’s in store)
– Dymocks (multiple stores)
Buy Stellarphant in SYDNEY, NSW:
– Gleebooks
– Better Read Than Dead
– Abbeys
– Hill of Content Balmain
– Potts Point Bookshop
– Harry Hartog (multiple stores)
– Berkelouw Books (multiple stores)
– Dymocks (multiple stores)
Buy Stellarphant in CANBERRA, ACT:
– The Book Cow
– Dymocks Canberra & Belconnen
– Harry Hartog, Woden
– Book Passion
Buy Stellarphant in MELBOURNE, VIC:
– The Little Bookroom
– Readings Kids
– Escape Hatch Books
– Ulysses
– Collins Croydon
– Avenue bookstore (multiple stores)
– Dymocks (multiple stores)
Buy Stellarphant in BRISBANE, QLD:
– Where The Wild Things Are
– Riverbend Books
– Mary Ryans Milton (you can’t order online, but it’s in store)
– Avid Reader (temporarily out of stock but you can order it in)
– Dymocks Bundaberg
Buy Stellarphant in ADELAIDE, SA:
– Matilda Bookshop
– Mostly Books
– Dymocks Adelaide
Buy Stellarphant in TASSIE:
– Hobart Bookshop
– Fullers
– Dymocks Hobart
– Petrarch’s, Launceston
Buy Stellarphant in DARWIN, NT:
– The Bookshop
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