International ballet star Mary Li reflects on a long-awaited opportunity to dance for the Australian Ballet.
Deborah Abela delves into the inspiration behind her hit middle grade series, Grimsdon, and reflects on how her books spark discourse around climate change.
A step-by-step guide to creating a virtual storytime for the kids you’re missing this holiday season.
2020 marks Monica McInerney’s 20th year as a published author. Here she offers 20 memories and observations on her writing career.
Award-winning YA author Shivaun Plozza shares the inspiration behind her latest book, The Boy, The Wolf and the Stars.
Bestselling author Elliot Perlman shares the inspiration behind his second children's book, Catvinkle and the Missing Tulips.
Dogs constantly talk to us, and each other, with posture and movement and through sounds and scent – whether we notice it or not!
Australian authors and personalities read some of our favourite picture books.
Halloween’s almost here, and the witching hour is upon us! We’re stacking our TBR pile high with spooky, scary reads to get us into the Halloween mood before the 31st.
Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compliation of diaries through the ages.
Our books cover a huge variety of topics to stimulate a child’s mind, and that’s why teachers, parents and caregivers across the world look to us to support children’s learning.
In the spirit of Halloween, this October we revisited Susan Hill’s classic horror.
Monica McInerney on the family secrets, overseas trips and strange times that shaped her heartwarming new novel.
Garry Linnell reveals how a childhood fascination led to his exploration of the life, and love, of an oft-forgotten bushranger.
Jesse Fink reveals the machinations of writing a book with one of the biggest drug traffickers the world has ever known.
‘Space Gandalf’ Greg Quicke puts the magnitude of our solar system into mind-boggling focus.
How to Raise Happy and Successful Children author Esther Wojcicki outlines how your kids can write their own rules around screen time.
Jane Martino shares her inspiration behind the Smiling Mind picture book series.
Read along with Julia Gillard, Sam Thaiday, Jamila Rizvi and John Wood.
Bec Brown on the quarter-life crisis that changed her career path and what she learned along the way.
Notebooks ready! From You’ve Got This, Bec Brown runs an exercise in evaluating what matters most.
Jacqueline Kent on the inspiration behind her book about an extraordinary woman, Vida.