Can't wait to begin Wendy's Weather Watcher adventures in her first two junior fiction books! Look out world! Wendy and I will be flying kites, hot air ballooning, jumping in puddles, and holding our breath during thunderstorms ☔🌈⚡
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✨ISSUE 5 IS OUT! ✨ They're on their way to classrooms now! ✨
#reading #theschoolmagazine #teachers #teacherresources #kidlit #kidlit art #LoveozKidLit #OzKidLit #LoveOzMG
Got a new book on the world today. Sunday Skating has burst into bookstores & Hannah Sommerville & I are giving each other big-air high 5s! Hardie Grant Children's Publishing #loveozkidlit
All set for tomorrow’s book launch of Sunday Skating at #AntipodesBookshop Sorrento Hardie Grant Children's Publishing #loveozkidlit
I’m excited that Grace and Mr Milligan has been shortlisted in the CBCA book of the year for Early Childhood and New Illustrator. Thanks Pip Kruger for your gorgeous illustrations, The CBCA and MarshallCavendishGrp. #cbca2024 #teacherlibrarians #loveozkidlit #books
NEW BOOK CONTRACT NEWS //
Hannah Sommerville & I thought we’d get our favourite outdoor kids back together. Hardie Grant Children's Publishing thought that was a good idea too. We hope you’re all good with that? We sure are. #ozkidlit #loveozkidlit
Don't mind appearing in the Readings best selling children's & YA books. Thanks to the fab readers and book buyers of our latest picture book Sunday Skating! Hardie Grant Children's Publishing #loveozkidlit
Super catch up in Melb city with the Hardie Grant Children's Publishing crew yesterday where I learnt that JETTY JUMPING has now been reprinted 15 times in 2 years! #ozkidlit #loveozkidlit
Hey there The CBCA Children's Book Week ... you're starting early for me with a huge month of reading & rolling, workshopping, & skating story times ahead! Looking forward to all the book-loving fun! CBCAVic Hardie Grant Children's Publishing #Childrensbookweek #Bookweek2023 #loveozkidlit
Children's Book Week costume crisis? Roll this way my friends ... I have some wheelie good suggestions :) #SundaySkating #ChildrensBookWeek #BookWeekcostumes #loveozkidlit Hardie Grant Children's Publishing The CBCA CBCAVic
Look who I saw at the Dulwich Hill festival today - picked up the latest installment of Worst Week Ever too! 💜 Eva Amores Matt Cosgrove Books #loveozkidlit
Five years at A&U! 🎉 Thank you to my team and the magnificent authors, illustrators, editors, designers, translators and authenticity readers I work with to make such brilliant kids books. I’m forever grateful this is my job. #LifeInPublishing #LoveOzYA #LoveOzMG #LoveOzKidlit
Spent the weekend at Fishy Stories Festival. What a joyous event it was! 3 of us Children's Laureate Foundation were there -Leigh Hobbs and Alison Lester plus kids authors including Meredith Costain Erica Wagner, Craig Smith @andrearowe Cassy Polimeni and many more! #loveozkidlit
How vibrant is the SCBWI Australia East stand at #Asla2023 ASLA ?? Today the #authors & #illustrators were on hand to chat about books, reading, & our love of #kidlit .
#loveozkidlit #picture books #middlegrade #childrensliteracy #schoollibraries #SchoolLibrariesAreImportant
Loved this chat with Ky Garvey - Author & Podcaster chatting all things picturebooks and my own writing process, as well as the story behind our next book, Sunday Skating Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
#kidlit #loveozKidlit
ANNOUNCING THE READ-AND-ROLL ROAD TRIP
Come celebrate the launch month of Sunday Skating with me. It's going to be all sorts of wheelie good fun. (there is also currently an opening in my skate crew for a Director of Puns!) Hardie Grant Children's Publishing #loveozkidlit bit.ly/ReadandRollSun…
Signed copies of my new PB Everyone Wants an Octopus Book! are now at Gleebooks Glebe & Dulwich Hill! #loveozkidlit 🐙✍🏼
Congratulations to all of the authors, illustrators, editors, designers and publishers whose books have been awarded The CBCA Notables for 2023! 🎉 Check out the full list here: cbca.org.au/notables-2023 #LoveOzYA #LoveOzMG #LoveOzKidlit #LoveOzComix #CBCA2023