So much happening (or should I say HOPpening) in 2024!

There is so much going on! We have 8 new books out, this year, heaps of great festivals and a stack of school visits that we’re looking forward to doing. The best way to keep up with the very latest is probably on the socials, but if that’s not your thing there are also blog posts below to keep you in the loop!

Get ready for this sweetest of stories! So at the end of our school tour marathon we visited this gorgeous little school, Bundanoon Public in the Southern Highlands. And while we were there one plucky kid asked us if we would ever dedicate a book to
The Koala Awards were a SMASH! 🎉 We love these awards that put kids in the judge’s seat. The amazing library team @williamclarkecollege knocked it out of the park. It was great meeting so many kids from different schools all so excited to meet
COVER REVEAL 🐸 🎉 The frog is outta the bag! The next Frog Squad book is almost here! Bungle in the Jungle is a hot mess of adventure and mayhem as this elite team of action frogs are called on to dive deep into the tropics to discover what those ev
You know how inspiration can come from anywhere? Well, our new Bush Turkey book is sure testament to that! Last year we were busy thinking up what trouble our bush turkey could get up to next when we came across these very funny videos by @fixitfinge
Media Literacy Week starts TODAY! We are so thrilled to be ML ambassadors for @oldparliamenthouse 🎉 Tomorrow Jol and I are giving a free online talk for kids all over Australia. We’ll be talking FAKE NEWS like does Jol really have a pet turtle
Hold on to your flippers! Jol and I have some great news, this year we are Media Literacy Ambassadors and as part of Media Literacy Week we will be doing a FREE online talk (Oct 22 🎉) presented through the fine folk @oldparliamenthouse The session w
The touring season is over so let’s crunch some numbers!!! 42 days with 115 author talks! And we spoke to more than 35,000 school kids from chucking chooks with kindies to talking time travel and writing tips with grade 5/6. We’ve been do
🏅 🐐 🎉🥇 @scholastic_au @rebelchallenger @curtisbrownaus #picturebooks #kidsbooks #instabooks #goat #thegoat #🐐 #readaloud #timetoread #readforfun #literacy #authorsofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #library #writingcommuni
We are Out West @somersetstoryfest in Emerald QLD🎉 This outback festival is just one of 3 that StoryFest have put on connecting remote kids with authors and what a success they are! Two days of hundreds of young students listening to some of Austra
As Jol and I enter our last week of seven weeks of school visits 😳 we’ve been lucky enough to meet thousands of fabulous young readers and the outstanding librarians who support them with their passion and professionalism. But after seeing so
THAT BIRD HAS… an HONOUR book award for Children’s Book of the Year!!! 🎉 What a fantastic surprise. We started the day with a school visit talking to kids in the Southern Highlands then made it just in time to the award show for the goo
One of the best things about festivals is getting to catch up with fantastic children’s authors and illustrators. Some of the finest were @byronwritersfestival this week and it was so good to find ourselves with time for an impromptu lunch and
It’s not just the kids that want a book signed! Jol and @itsmattstantonhere chatting with a fine feathered fan @byronwritersfestival Looking forward to talking books and chooks on Family Day! @harperkidsau #sydney #writersofinstagram #writingli
This is us for the next seven weeks! Roaming the streets hauling banners and bags, bookmarks and bin chickens! It’s great getting out and meeting our young readers and sharing new work. . #bookweek #booklover #schoollife #teacherlibrarian #libr
COVER REVEAL!!! Look what we found in the trash! Why, it’s our BRAND NEW Bin Chicken book series, Trashy Tales! Come along as Bin Chicken takes flight into Jr Fiction! Book 1 is called Duck for Cover and it’s perfect for kids who have lov
Just getting a last clothes wash in before heading home. We can’t stay here forever eating all the things and walking all the streets! There’s a Book Month to get back to! It’s been almost three weeks of traipsing with my three favo
Writing retreat but make it Japan style! 🇯🇵 Beyond the outskirts of Tokyo is a little mountain town called Fujino Art Village. It’s got all the stuff I love, beautiful landscape, little cafes and faded theme parks. The boys are enrolled at a
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Hats announced as National Simultaneous Storytime book!

What's this! I Got This Hat has been chosen for the National Simultaneous Storytime Book for 2016! Brilliant! So on May 25th get out your fez, fedora and feather cap and let's where hats together! Much more on this later... In the meantime, here's a message from us!

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Adelaide Writers' Festival

We've been invited to the Adelaide Writers Festival. Boo-YA! We're not really the type that likes to play it cool when it comes to these things so in case you didn't get it Double Boo-YA. We're excited. We're going to be reading our books in the Family Tent on Saturday and Sunday.  

More details to follow!

 

 

 

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Mike wins Best Designed Picture Book in Australia

Jol, Jon, Kate & Chren (Harper Collins) at the Australian Book Design Awards 2015.

Jol, Jon, Kate & Chren (Harper Collins) at the Australian Book Design Awards 2015.

Mike I Don't Like is about a boy who doesn't like stuff. But even he couldn't pretend he didn't like being the winner of Best Designed Children's Book 2015 by the Australian Book Design Awards. New copies of Mike are being printed as we speak, like right at this... no... THIS second. Weird. 

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Our new site.

I guess it wasn't really news to you because you must have known about it to find your way here to this post. But... if you did just fall down a steep ravine after being chased by a really scary squirrel only to wake up in a coma in hospital with someone holding this post over your head then it is news and in that case WOW.

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