So much happening in 2025!

There is so much going on! We have 7 new books out, including our middle grade smash Mega Rich Guinea Pigs! We’ve also got a swag of exciting new picture books and heaps and heaps of school and festival visits. 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!

Last night Jol and @ronojoyghosh dropped in to Bardia Public School for their Diwali celebration! 🎉 Jol read the new Bin Chicken Lights Up the Night and Ronojoy took the kids on a drawing tutorial. So many fantastic decorated Bin Chickens to get the
What a fabulous trip to Launceston talking to kids @scotchoakburn 🎉 We don’t usually do school visits in term 4 because we need to get back to writing books but this was a lovely exception! We ran 3 sessions for the junior school and were blow
What a day been chauffeured around Melbourne signing books with @itsmattstantonhere 🎉 We met fabulous booksellers and signed more books than I’ve had hot dinners. Plenty of signed books all over! Thanks for having us in! #readingtime #readread
School visits are done!!! Let’s crunch some numbers! 112 sessions. 11 weeks. Over 25,000 kids from FNQ to Victoria. We launch two books! Mega Rich Guinea Pigs and Bin Chicken Lights up the Night. We’ve met wonderful children and extraordi
COVER REVEAL!!! 🎉 Bin Chicken Lights up the Night! 🎆 This very special Bin Chicken celebrates all the magic and wonder of Diwali! We were fortunate to have @ronojoyghosh and @niharikahukku invite us over to celebrate this festival of light with the
Join us for a bedazzle party to celebrate the launch of MEGA RICH GUINEA PIGS 🎉 🐹 💰 Pick up a copy and BLING it up! Rhinestones and sparkles supplied (including the liquid variety) SATURDAY 3pm @gleebooks_kids Can’t wait to see you! MEGA RIC
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Big Books at Adelaide Writers' Festival

They were expecting big things from us but not this big! Our BIG BOOKs made their debut this weekend at the Adelaide Writers' Festival. When I say Big Books I means stupidly oversized big. If there was a giant who was really into rhyming picture books these are the books he'd be reading. Each book takes two people to carry! Lucky there's two of us! Thanks kids of Adelaide who came out to our sessions and to the Auslan interpreters who rhymed in sign . Here are some pics.

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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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