Placing orders

Contact our sales representative in your area. We maintain warehouse stockholdings of popular titles and classics, resulting in fast turnaround times for your orders. Out-of-stock books will be kept on backorder if you wish.

Opening an Account

If you have not purchased books from Southern Sky Books before, we will open an account for you automatically once we receive your first order.

Invoicing

Flexible invoicing terms.

Discounts

Books are discounted for libraries. The discounts depend on the types of books and the quantity, and can range up to 60% off for specials. Contact your sales representative for details.

Warehouse Visits

Southern Sky Books can arrange for librarians to visit various publishers' warehouses. Extra discount is often offered for large purchases at a warehouse visit.

New Title Notification

Your Southern Sky Books sales representative can provide lists of new children's titles. If you prefer, we can bring samples to show you.

Profiling & Standing Orders

Libraries can place orders for genres, subjects, authors, etc. New books will then be supplied as they become available.

Publishers

We keep new and backlist stock of children's books from many publishers including (we currently have over 60,000 different titles on hand):

ABC Books, Allen & Unwin, Blake, Capstone, Curious Fox, Five Mile Press, Hachette, Hardie Grant, Harper, Heinemann, Herron, Hinkler, Hodder Koala, Little Hare, Macmillan, Modern Brands, New Holland, Newbridge, Parish, Parragon, Penguin, Puffin, QED, Raintree, Random House, Scholastic Simon & Schuster, Thames & Hudson, Top That, Usborne, Walker, Watts, Weigl

and more ...