Sophie Beer
Sophie Beer
Sophie Beer is an award-winning author and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. She works primarily in children's books and has published with Penguin Random House, Simon and Schuster, Walker, Scholastic, Hardie Grant and many more. She rejoices in creating bright, funny picture books that centre equality, inclusion and kindness. As an illustrator, she has worked with Disney/Pixar, Google and the Sydney Opera House, and she has collaborated with Myer for her own line of children's homewares. When Sophie is not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books, equality, and Aldi choc-chip biscuits.
Books represented by Annabel Barker Agency
Thunderhead
Thunderhead is a heart-squeezing and hopeful middle fiction illustrated novel about the awkwardness of early teen life and the challenge of living with illness and loss – beautifully told with humour, music, art and joy.
Thunderhead is an anxious, music-obsessed kid blurting their angst into a defunct internet forum to avoid the squirmy awkwardness of real life. A real life where Thunderhead is hiding a big secret – a secret that if revealed will brand them with the dreaded stigma of being the PWSC, the “poor widdle sick kid”. And nobody wants that. NOTHANKYOUVERYMUCH.
As two big life events approach, Thunderhead posts playlists and heartfelt diary entries as an outlet to try to make sense of their changing world, to try to manage the storm brewing in their brain and to find the courage to unfurl their heart a little to gain a lot.
Drawing on her own personal experiences for inspiration, Sophie Beer delivers an indelible illustrated novel, immediately engaging, fresh, funny, warm, sad, utterly authentic and entirely unputdownable.
Before We Met
Written by Gabrielle Tozer, illustrated by Sophie Beer
A timely and moving picture book that captures the excitement, hope and love within families of all shapes and sizes. The perfect gift for any parent, carer or grandparent.
Before we met,
I made a wish upon a starry night ...
To bring you home into my arms,
to fill our world with light.
Waiting to meet a new addition to your family is a special time as you dream of the joy to come.
This beautiful picture book is a heartfelt and moving tribute to the anticipation and excitement that a child can bring, and the ways in which a family can be created, including IVF and adoption.
A joyous celebration of growing families of all shapes and sizes from award-winning duo Gabrielle Tozer and Sophie Beer.
Mama Bear and Me
A bear hug from my mama is the warmest place to be.
We’ll sleep inside our cave, all snuggly brave ... my Mama Bear and me.
Bears can be cuddly soft and grizzly grumpy. But who is the cuddliest, grizzliest bear of all? Why, it’s MAMA BEAR!
From the best-selling author of Love Makes a Family comes this loving tribute to real-life mama bears.
