BookPeople Kids

19/09/2025

The countdown to LYBD is on—3 weeks to go! 🩷

To celebrate, we have a colouring competition, where you could win a $100 BookPeople Gift Card to spend at your favourite bookshop.

To enter, head to our website and download the colouring sheet, post your coloured illustration on social media with the hashtag and tag or email it to [email protected]

Entries for all three age categories (0-5, 6-9 and 10-13) close on 11th October 2025.

18/09/2025

Ahoy mateys! It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!

We've got you covered with books that will help you release your inner pirate 🏴‍☠️🦜

Talk Like a Pirate Day is nationally recognised in Australia as the major fundraiser for Childhood Cancer Support. Head to their website to find out more, here: fundraise.ccs.org.au/event/talk-like-a-pirate-day

15/09/2025

The Poisoned King is out in bookshops today! 💚🐉

The Poisoned King is the second book in Katherine Rundell's bestselling Impossible Creatures series.

When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by a miniature dragon chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live. But he did not know it would involve a rescue mission on the back of a sphinx, or a plan to enter a dragon's lair. Nor did he imagine it would involve a girl with a flock of birds at her side, a new-hatched chick in her pocket and a ravenous hunger for justice...

Find your local bookshop to pick up your copy, here: https://www.bookpeople.org.au/find-a-bookshop/

12/09/2025

Who else loves that new book feeling? 🖤

Ngurra Home is the final adventure for Mia, taking place after Black Cockatoo and Dirran. Mia has navigated her way through culture, Country and familial ties, and lived in a boarding school thousands of kilometres away from home. Now she is studying Conservation and Wildlife Science at university whilst working part-time for a wildlife sanctuary when she is called home to protect and fight for Country.

Written by and published by this is a great read if you are interested in learning about First Nations cultures and can be read as a standalone, or part of the series after Black Cockatoo and Dirran.

Head to your local bookshop to pick up your copy!

09/09/2025

Congratulations to Judith Rossell, for winning the 2025 Davitt Awards Best Children’s Crime Novel for The Midwatch!

Congratuations

09/09/2025

Congratulations to Erin Gough, for winning the 2025 Davitt Awards Best YA Crime Novel for Into the Mouth of the Wolf!

Congratulations!

08/09/2025

🌏️ It's 🌏️

World Kid Lit is a non-profit that aims to bring diverse, inclusive, global literature into the hands and onto the bookshelves of young people, fostering anti-racism, inclusivity and empathy. It brings together literature and literacy advocates, librarians and educators, translators and children’s publishing professionals from every continent of the globe! Use these bingo charts as a great place to start an international reading journey.

This year there is also a NEW Reading Challenge Award!
The World Kid Lit Reading Challenge Award is a new competition for schools to promote international and inclusive reading and is open for entries from 1st September - 10th October. Head to World Kit Lit's website to learn more! Available here: https://worldkidlit.org/what-is-world-kid-lit-month/

05/09/2025

Looking for something new to read? We've got you covered!

These books, as seen in BookPeople's Spring Reading Guide, are out this month and are eagerly awaiting to head home with you.

Head to your local bookshop, pick up a reading guide and an exciting new read 🏃

01/09/2025

29/08/2025

🎶 Ta-da! 🎶 The 2026 Children’s Book Week theme is 'Symphony of Stories'.

Our talented illustrator is the fabulous Briony Stewart, award-winning author-illustrator of ‘Gymnastica Fantastica’ and other children's books. Just wait until you meet all the wild characters she's created.

Watch the theme announcement again: https://youtu.be/wz-psnQnUmQ

Children's Book Week will run from Saturday 22 August to Friday 28 August 2026.

26/08/2025

It's one week until Indigenous Literacy Day!

This year's ILD theme celebrates Strength In Our Stories: For Now & Future Generations.

Register for this year's ILD to join in watching the ILD film and a livestream performance. The film will take you on an adventure through 3 remote Aboriginal Communities to learn about the diverse ways storytelling makes their Communities strong. The following livestream performance from Sydney Opera House will have ILF Ambassadors and Special Guests host performances celebrating Aboriginal storytelling.

Register, here: https://www.ilf.org.au/ild

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25/08/2025

It's International Dog Day! 🐕️

I've been told by the Chairman of the International Dog Committee to share a very important message: that you must treat your dog today (and every other day)! 🦴

A special shout-out to for the publication of If We Were Dogs today! The perfect day for it.