The Kids Reading Guide for Summer 2025-2026 is here! The guide features art from Here Come the Cousins, illustrated by Sarah Zweck, on the cover and throughout. Yay Sarah!

Six months of amazing reviews for our clients’ books – click through for a handful of highlights!

Out now with HarperCollins: Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish. We’re so thrilled to celebrate the release of the first book in this hilarious new junior fiction series from Judith Rossell.

Rachel Lawson at Lerner/Gecko Press has bought world rights to Cass and the Beast – a picture book written by our wonderful client Claire Mabey and illustrated by Jill Calder. Congratulations Claire!

Out now: Another Year Around the Sun – a gorgeous new picture book by Katrina Germein and our wonderful client Alice Lindstrom! Happy publication to this beautiful book from Affirm Press

Happy publication to the beautiful Here Come the Cousins, written by Maggie Hutchings and illustrated by our wonderful client Sarah Zweck. Out now with Thames and Hudson Australia.

The Midwatch has been shortlisted for the ARA Historical Novel prize in the Children’s and Young Adult category. Hooray Jude and congratulations to all the shortlisted authors.

Happy publication to the German edition of The Midwatch School for Unwanted Girls, out now with Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH.

Judith Rossell has been awarded a Davitt Award for The Midwatch (Hardie Grant). Congratulations to Jude and to all the other winners!

Congratulations to Sophie Beer and Lauren Draper who are finalists for the Queensland Literary Awards for their respective works Thunderhead (Allen and Unwin) and Return to Sender (PanMacmillan).

Coming this October from the amazing Judith Rossell….Spud and Snowball and the Fancy Fish (Harper Collins) – a hilarious illustrated fiction book for emerging readers and cat lovers.

Libby’s Footy Adventures is out now! This wonderful picture book comes from three-time premiership winner Libby Birch, with by our wonderful client Robin Tatlow-Lord.

Cover reveal! We cannot wait for Another Year Around the Sun, written by Katrina Germein and illustrated by our amazing client Alice Lindstrom.

The wonderful Claire Mabey has been awarded the NZSA Best First Book Award win for her middle-grade novel The Raven's Eye Runaways (Allen and Unwin). Congratulations Claire!

Georgina Chadderton’s brilliant middle-grade graphic memoir Oh Brother (Penguin Random House) is now available for pre-order. Oh Brother will be published simultaneously in Australia, the US, the UK and Canada in February 2026. Hooray Gina!

Sophie Beer and Dave Petzold have both been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards! Hooray!

I am thrilled to welcome Bella Suckling to her new role as Associate Agent!

Happiest publication to We Saw What You Started – the epic YA debut from our amazing client Carla Salmon.

The Forbidden Journal of Rufus Rumble: Legend of the Fang is now out on bookstore shelves! This wonderful series for reluctant readers is illustrated by our fabulous client Robin Tatlow-Lord.

Judith Rossell’s The Midwatch has been awarded the BookPeople Kids’ Reading Guide Children’s Book of the Year⁠. Congratulations to Jude and to all those nominated!