The latest illustrated game from Kim Siew is At The Bookshop! Guess your favourite characters and match them to your books in this fabulous game from Thames and Hudson.

It’s launch month for this gorgeously illustrated book from Kim Siew, written by Samantha Turnbull and based on the Number 1 ABC Podcast Fierce Girls.

So thrilled that three of our clients have books selected for the Children’s Book Council of Australia books of the year for 2022. Congratulations to Inda Ahmad Zahri (Salih) in Picture Book of The Year, Anna Zobel (Little Gem) in Younger Readers and Tiger Daughter (Rebecca Lim) in Older Readers.

Cover reveal for The Ghost Locket, a new middle grade mystery from Allison Rushby, coming in April 2022. This beautiful cover by Rovina Cai.

Sally Soweol Han has a number of exciting new projects publishing in 2022 and 2023, including three new picture books; Tiny Wonders (UQP), Sunshine at Bedtime (Storyhouse) and a new picture book from Magic Cat Publishing.

An exciting YA duology, The Towers, written by Mette Jakobsen, to be published by Harper Collins Australia in 2022

A picture book, written by Inda Ahmad Zahri, to be published by Affirm Press in 2023

A four book junior fiction series, The Wish Sisters, by Allison Rushby will be published by UQP in 2023

A new picture book, to be illustrated by Anna Zobel (written by Flora Chol) will be published by Scribble in 2023.

A four book picture book series, to be written and illustrated by Shelley-Knoll Miller will be published by Penguin Random House Australia in 2023.

A new picture book written by Felice Arena will be published by Affirm Press in 2023.

The Unstoppable Flying Flanagan, by Felice Arena, to be published by Penguin Random House Australia in March 2022

At The Gallery, a memory game by Kim Siew, to be published by Thames and Hudson Australia in October 2021

Flocked by Chren Byng (to be illustrated by Andrew Joyner), to be published by Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing, in March 2022

Tiny Wonders written and illustrated by Sally Soweol Han, to be published by UQP in March 2022

The Year the Maps Changed, by Danielle Binks, sold to HarperCollins/Quill Tree (North American rights), on behalf of Jacinta Di Mase Management

The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name, Sandhya Parappukkaran and Michelle Pereira (North American Rights) to Abrams Children’s, on behalf of Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing

Some thrilling news for graphic novel star Gina Chadderton. We were pleased to work alongside agent Daniel Lazar (Writers House) to sell world rights for her graphic novel / memoir Oh, Brother to Penguin Random House, for simultaneous publication in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia in 2024

Your Birthday Was the Best, and School Was the Best, by Maggie Hutchings and Felicita Sala (North American rights) to Tundra Books, on behalf of Affirm Press

Listen to US marketing consultant Sally Kim chat about the US children’s book market and learn some more about how you can market yourself there as a new author or illustrator.