by Andrea Rowe | Mar 4, 2024
There’s a certain scent in the air when you approach Clunes each March … it’s the smell of books, beautiful books. And the sound? The air is filled with the soft riffle of pages, the gasps, laughs, and tissue sniffling as storytellers share, and...
by Andrea Rowe | Nov 10, 2023
A most special honour. Jetty Jumping has been awarded the 2023 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year (5-8yrs) for contributions to language & literacy development.That’s all Hannah Sommerville and I can ask for, that together we created a valued book that...
by Andrea Rowe | Sep 20, 2023
It’s an honour to share that I have been awarded a 2024 May Gibbs Childrens Literature Trust Fellowship. The May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust promotes the creation of contemporary Australian children’s literature in the belief that children’s books,...
by Andrea Rowe | Aug 12, 2023
Children’s Book Week is upon us! It’s more than just costumes, it’s a time of literacy connection, bringing books into a front row seat and inspiring young readers with writing, reading and author connections. In August every year authors and...
by Andrea Rowe | Aug 4, 2023
On the countdown for 2023 Children’s Book Week and stuck for ideas? Children’s Book Week costume crisis? Roll this way my friends … I have some wheelie good suggestions for my picture book Sunday Skating, illustrated by Hannah Sommerville....
by Andrea Rowe | Jun 21, 2023
Last week during the release of our new book, Sunday Skating, Hannah Sommerville and I were thrilled to learn that our previous book, Jetty Jumping, was shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Australia 20th Annual Book of the Year awards. For two decades, this...
