Stellarphant

Written & illustrated by James Foley

🇦🇺🇳🇿 Australia/NZ edition:
published by Fremantle Press, 2nd November 2021
ISBN: 9781760990732 (hardcover)

🇺🇸🇨🇦 USA/Canada edition:
published by Kane Miller Books, 1st January 2022
ISBN: 9781684644247 (hardcover)

🇹🇷 Türkçe baskı (Turkish edition) ‘Yildizfilosu’
İthaki Çocuk, December 2021
Çeviren: İdil Koçak
ISBN: 9786257360487 (paperback)

🇳🇱 Nederlandse editie (Dutch edition) ‘Sterrefant’
De Vier Windstreken, November 2023
Eerste Vertaler: Hedi de Zanger
ISBN: 9789051169751 (hardcover)

🇰🇷 South Korean edition: 코끼리 스텔라 우주 비행사가 되다
비룡소 (Biryongso), September 2023
Translator: Shin Soo-jin
ISBN: 9788949114392 (hardcover)

Buy Stellarphant:

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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?

Read an excerpt here.

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Teacher Resources

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Awards

• Shortlist, 2023 KOALA Awards, Picture Book category
• Shortlist, 2023 YABBA Awards, Picture Book category
• Shortlist, 2023 KROC Awards, Picture Book category
• Honour Book, 2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia, Picture Book of the Year
• Winner, 2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia Sun Project: Shadowers’ Choice Awards, Picture Book of the Year
• Selection, International Youth Library’s White Ravens List 2022
• #36, Better Reading Top 50 Kids Books of 2022
• Shortlist, 2021 WA Premier’s Book Awards, The Premier’s Prize for Writing for Children
• Shortlist, 2023 WA Young Readers’ Book Awards, Picture Book category
• Shortlist, 2021 Aurealis Awards, Best Children’s Fiction
• Shortlist, 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 Award
• Longlist, 2023 Taco Awards, Best Character in a Children’s Book

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Reviews

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Book trailer

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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:

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News / Behind-the-Scenes

Check out my blog for the latest posts about Stellarphant.

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Gallery

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Sincere thanks to:

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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