Award for Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville

Congratulations to author Andrea Rowe and Illustrator Hannah Sommerville on being awarded

Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year

for their book

Jetty Jumping

a picture book for 5-12 year olds published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing

2021

Jetty Jumping has been awarded the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year for 5 to 8-year-olds. The Awards aim to promote quality Australian books that help children get the best, most literate start in life.

Jetty Jumping has been respected as being a captivating book combining a compelling narrative format with themes of bravery and emotion. It has served as an excellent resource for teaching a large range of concepts and higher-level language skills.

Congratulations on the award! This book was also the winner of the 2022 CBCA Picture book of the year early childhood!

New JF for Alison McLennan

Congratulations to author Alison McLennan on the publication of

Calamity Jones: A Flamingo For Christmas

A paperback junior fiction for 6-9 year olds published by Five Mile

October 2023

Calamity Jones thinks she's a world-class problem solver, even if everything she touches turns to disaster. When her family's pink plastic lawn flamingo, Fred, is birdnapped in the middle of the night, she swings into action to bring him home.

Book Launch: Calamity Jones: A Flamingo For Christmas, will be officially launched at the Quick Brown Fox Bookstore in Grange, Qld on Saturday November 18th, 2023 at 2pm.

Just the thing for Christmas!

Tenth Anniversary PB for Anna Pignataro

Congratulations to author/illustrator Anna Pignataro on the Tenth Anniversary release of

Owl

A paperback picture book for 3-12 year olds, published by Windy Hollow Books

2023

In a snowy forest Owl and Frida live happily together. Each night they look out their little window and wonder what lies beyond the snow. Then one midwinter day Owl's dreams begin to fill with magic.....

This is the Tenth Anniversary release of this story, told in the style of a fairytale/fable.

A beautiful book.