G.O.A.T is the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!

Introducing Goat! One day Goat wakes up and realises he just might be the Greatest Of All Time… but wait, Duck is also pretty great but can a Duck be a Goat?

This is the first in a brand new picture book series that celebrates word play and is all written in dialogue between two great friends. We will be sharing this book on all our school visits particularly when talking to K-2. It creates a great opportunity for kids to create their own acrostic poems using their own names. We hope you love it!

Trilby's back!!!

She’s baaaaaaack!!!!! Get ready to return to the Island Outside Time where you can never get any older and the only thing anyone EVER eats is cake. But if you think that sounds like fun, you have another thing coming! Trilby is up for her biggest challenge yet as she is tricked and trapped yet again by the evil Mr Colin… and a new sidekick. Find out more when you pick up your very own copy!

New Bird Books! Bush Turkeys and Brids with Arms!

Two new and VERY different bird books have landed in your book shop! We are so thrilled with these two find feathered friends. Check out the Bush Turkey, he’s a loveable rouge that seems to be pilfering stuff from a nearby worksite… but what’s he going to build with it? And then there’s this most special of books That Bird Has Arms! This book is all about a bird named Roy that discovers he has ARMS! And not everyone’s happy about it. Roy is going to have to learn that what sets you apart is also what makes you special.

Amazing school visits in South Australia!

What a fantastic time we had in South Australia! First we stormed the beautiful Adelaide Writers’ Week for three big sessions and then it was off on a school tour. We were talking to the big kids about graphic novel and fantasy as well as the little characters. Bin Chickens went flying and Jol was beaten in a game of beach ball badminton, but it was all in the name of literacy!

Bin Chicken’s EGGCELLENT EASTER

It’s beginning to look a lot like EASTER! And who better to ring in the eggs than our favourite bird BIN CHICKEN!. This Easter our ibis will be looking to rescue some fallen eggs, but wait… they don’t look like normal bird eggs… they are too shiny! Could they be Easter Eggs? And if they are, should that Bin Chicken be collecting them up and sitting on them??? Find out in Bin Chicken’s EGGCELLENT EASTER! Out now!

The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moff

Meet Trilby. She’s in big trouble. A bizarre pandemic has hit the world and it’s making people speak dead languages and bake ancient cakes and then fall asleep and NEVER wake up. Now Trilby must travel to an island outside time to try and fix it… if a man in a top hat doesn’t kill her first! This is The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat. This is Kate’s first solo book and it’s a fast paced adventure filled with dangerous people, rude cats and lots of cake! It’s also really really funny. So what are you waiting for? In stores now. Like now. Actually… now.

Bin Chicken Flies Again!

An all new

Bin Chicken!

Bin Chicken is BACK and this time our favourite bird is getting dirty… really dirty. She’s off to the tip and tries her wings at driving the bin truck! No Bin Chicken, Ibis do not drive trucks! This is a tall tale full of trash, trucks and good times. Our Bin Chicken might even have a few pearls of wisdom for us when it comes to waste.

This new hardcover will be in store end of April. If you can’t see it, flap your feathers! Or if you’re an early bird pre-order here!

Who Stole the Balls!?? Another case for The UNDERDOGS

Bad News! It’s time for the Dogtown Grandslam but someone’s stolen all the balls? Was in Novak Dogavic? Maybe it was Bjorn Dawg??? Or Ash Barkey! One thing is for sure… this is a case for the Underdogs! Welcome to book 3 in the Underdogs series where Fang and Barkley are hot on the heels of a ball thief… it won’t be easy to solve this one but if anyone can do it… it probably won’t be them.

Underdogs Hit a Grandslam is out Feb 2 but you can preorder it today from any bookshop! Or right here…

2022 School Visits Bookings are OPEN!

Limited Bookings!

We are super keen to get back to schools and talk books and ideas! We only have limited bookings for 2022 on account of needing to also have time to write the books! If you’re in Syd you can pop over to our school visits page and contact Beth at the Children’s Bookshop Speakers Agency and for all Melb. Bris and Adelaide booking contact me directly. We are making some dates available!

Underdogs Hits the Top 10!

High Fives and Top Tens!

Hello Underdogs fans! A big thank you to you all for getting behind our new series! It even made it to the Top 10 Kids’ Books! We’re busy putting the finishing touches on the next instalment… expect scooter chases through Dogtown, strange gadgets that don’t really work AND lots of red herrings as Fang and Barkley track down an art thief!

BREAKING NEWS!!! THE UNDERDOGS ARE ON THE CASE!!!

NEW SERIES!!

The Underdogs are a team of ragtag dog detectives cracking cases in Dogtown… but in a town that’s gone to the dogs… YOU NEED A CAT! Enter Fang. This scruff ball has just what it takes to get these down and out detectives back in form. This book is full of brilliant illustrations by Shiloh Gordon (he’s AMAZING!) and lots of silly word play and stacks and stacks of laughs. It’s perfect for a 7+ audience but also for any kid who loves comics, mystery and of course DOGS! You can pre-order now! Link here…

Move That Mountain – New Book!

Move that Mountain

Very VERY excited to share this beauty with you. This is our follow up to Room on Our Rock and just like RoOR it is an allegory that can be read front-to-back OR back-to-front for a very different story. I can’t tell you how hard it is to write these… actually I can… VERY HARD! Hard because it’s like a puzzle or a sudoku or a game of jenga and it hurts my head!

But the result is worth it and Terri’s illustrations are magic. This book is about the big, HUGE, insurmountable problems we face in our world and it’s about the young people who work together to face them. They are an inspiration. We hope you enjoy it! It’s not out until April, and we look forward to sharing more as we get closer to launch!

NSW State Library Workshop OCT 6

Join our FREE virtual workshop

Looking for something FREE and AWESOME this school holidays? Of course you are… who isn’t??? We are running a virtual writing workshop through the NSW State Library and it’s open to EVERYONE! And we will be doing something super fun. We’ll be writing complaint letters! So sharpen your pens and let’s get complaining! To join in you can either go to insta and click the link in our bio or pop over to the state library website and sign in there… I could have left an easy to use button right below that would click you right through but I wanted to make a cup of tea instead… so I didn’t.

WIN ALL THE ALICE TOOLIE BOOKS!!! PLUS A CUSTOM DRAWING OF YOUR VERY OWN HOUSE!

COVER DESIGN COMPETITION!!!

Time to shine people! This is your chance to Win the FULL set of Alice Toolie Books!!! BUT that’s not all! You’ll also win an amazing illustration of your own house by Battle of Book Week illustrator Georgia Draws a House.

But HOW? I hear you ask… All you have to do is design your own amazing Alice Toolie cover and you could be the big winner of all three books in the set! Amazing. So crack out the glitter pens, the coloured pencils and the sticker pad. Extra points for the most creative entry. To enter, simply click on the button below and download the PDF coversheet. Print it out at home and get scribbling! You can get an adult to take a photo and tag us on the instagram or if you don’t do the social media just go right ahead and email it to us. LOVE IT!

On the INSTA we can be found @katejoltemple

Competition closes August 23!

BATTLE OF BOOK WEEK!!!

Book Week is about to get messy!

Have you even noticed how there’s NO books about BOOK WEEK???? Solved! Now there is.

It’s about time too, because Book Week is always the best week of the school year! (At least it’s always our favourite!!!) We love visiting school, eating cake in the library and meeting the library monitors. THE BEST!!! With all these fabulous experiences we couldn’t help but write a Book Week adventure!

But when Alice and Jimmy get involved, Book Week celebrations turn into bookish disaster! From kooky costume mayhem to an author visit that breaks all the rules… NOTHING IS SAFE! Battle of Book Week is out now!

New Alice Toolie Free Download Book!

We’ve been thinking. If all the kids are social isolating then so is Alice Toolie and her best frenemy Jimmy Cook! So we decide to write a free mini book about how those two are handling lockdown. It’s hilarious. It’s ridiculous. It’s free! Click the download button below and it’s yours! And if you have time (and WHO doesn’t besides mum… she has no time anymore) then tell us what you think of their lockdown antics! We hope this little story makes your social distancing a little more enjoyable. Happy reading!

BIN CHICKEN landing near YOU!

Get into a flap with this stinky book news!!!

Trash turkey, dumpster duck… BIN CHICKEN! Look what’s just landed at our house, some preview copies of our new stinky book! Illustrated by the wonderfully talented Ronojoy Ghosh, published by Scholastic and written by US! The ibis is a well known for its sneaky rubbish antics. It hangs out on bins, steals children’s sandwiches right out of the lunch box and chases down chips! BUT did you know it’s also a native bird that once waded through wetlands? It’s adapted to changes in its habitat and learned to survive. It’s RESILIENT a bit like us right now. So we invite you to reacquaint yourself with this Bin Chicken, and discover she is more than meets the dropped pie.

US news! We won the Charlotte Huck award!

Oh my goodness! Here we were having an ordinary day, packing lunch boxes, looking for lost shoes and wondering why we’re always out of bread WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED! We just found out our book Room On Our Rock has won the prestigious Charlotte Huck award for fiction that has the power to change children’s lives – we can’t think of a better thing to win an award for. So we stopped worrying about the dirty dishes and started brimming with pride! This award is very special because it’s chosen by the National Association of Teachers of English in the US. These are the people that know better than anyone the role that fiction can play in empowering children both in terms of literacy but also as critical thinkers and compassionate young humans. Thank you.

Get laughing. It's Time to hit your funny bones!!!

Funny Bones!

It’s here! (Well, almost…) Literally a TONE of laugh-out-loud stories, jokes, illustrations, comics and more from Australia’s best writers and illustrators. We’ve got everyone from Andy Griffiths, Matt Cosgrove, Sally Rippin, Tristan Banks and of course… US! This book isn’t just funny it’s also good. Really good. All royalties from this ripper go to WarChild. They’re an awesome charity that help support kids who live in war zones. We’re really passionate about connecting our work as writers to causes that benefit children so having the chance to edit a book like this has been both brilliant fun and a privilege! Funny Bones is in store from November. Just in time to load up and weigh down the Christmas stocking!

It's war! Birthday War!

A brand NEW Alice Toolie book JUST came out this week! Time to shine! If we’re being serious adult type people this book is all about the challenges of collaboration and friendship through the lens of Antarctic history... BUT if we’re honest it’s about CAKE! Dogs in drones, 3D printed jelly beans and birthday disaster!

Birthday Wars is a book written entirely in letters by Alice and her enemy Jimmy Cook. Bring on the Birthday Wars!