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Katrina Germein

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Katrina Germein
Katrina Germein
Katrina Germein is a best-selling children’s author, published and translated internationally. Her popular titles include Bev and Kev, Fabulous Frogs, One Little Duck, and the My Dad Thinks He’s Funny series. Katrina’s work has been Highly Commended in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and won a CBCA Honour, as well as CBCA short-listings and Notables. Katrina is a past winner of the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award and the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. Her books have been recorded five times for the children’s television show, Continue reading Katrina Germein →

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Picture Book Prize Winner!

Picture Book Prize Winner
Picture Book Prize Winner
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural MidnightSun Picture Book Prize. Choosing a winner from the terrific shortlist was difficult but ultimately we had to pick one and the winner is…

The Battle of the Beast by Penny O’Loughlin with a funny and sweet story of friendship and the power of consciously putting one’s mind to something and practising even when it’s hard. Through hilarious mishaps (and one odd goat), the main character discovers that sometimes the heaviest things lift us the most. Continue reading Picture Book Prize Winner! →

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Audrey Skips

Audrey Skips cover
Audrey Skips cover
Written by Andrea Rowe and illustrated by Lisa Coutts

HB 32 | 210 x 297 | ISBN: 9781922858719 | $29.99
Picture Book | MidnightSun Publishing | February 2026
Distributed by NewSouth Books

Bright and shiny Audrey loves to skip a jump rope rhyme, right off her rooftop and through the sleeping streets of a city. Skittering across the skyline and peering in windows, Audrey spies folks struggling with hard times as her own light dims. With a little help from city friends, Audrey’s light and her hopeful spirit shine again, brighter than ever.

Andrea Rowe and Lisa Coutts come together to create a story about community and kindness, legacy and conservation. Audrey Skips is a tribute to The Skipping Girl, Melbourne’s first neon sign and a Continue reading Audrey Skips →

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Lisa Coutts

Lisa Coutts
Lisa Coutts
Lisa Coutts is an illustrator based in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia. Her work has features in over 20 of varying genres, and her greatest love is picture books. Lisa loves creating charming characters and placing them in quirky and whimsical worlds. She is the illustrator of The Great Book Swapping Machine by Emma Allen and she designed the cover art on Tim Winton’s Blueback, with more books in production. Lisa’s art practice incorporates mixed media techniques including coloured pencil, dry pastel, acrylic and watercolour paints, and Procreate.

Her work has been described as charming, delicious, quirky, whimsical and that it hurts people’s hearts in a GOOD way! When not in her studio, you’ll find Lisa Continue reading Lisa Coutts →

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Andrea Rowe

Andrea Rowe
Andrea Rowe
Andrea Rowe is a best-selling, award-winning picture book author. Her picture book, Jetty Jumping (illustrated by Hannah Sommerville), was awarded the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year – Early Childhood and the 2023 Australian Speech Pathology Picture Book of the Year. In the Rockpool and Amid the Sand Dunes (Hardie Grant) were both awarded the 2024 and 2025 CBCA Notable Picture Books of the Year – Early Childhood.

Andrea loves to write stories where characters explore the great outdoors, ponder big Continue reading Andrea Rowe →

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Dirt Trap

Dirt Trap cover
Dirt Trap cover
by Michael Burge

PB tbc | 234 x 153 | ISBN: 9781922858689 | $34.99
Novel | Also available as ebook
MidnightSun Publishing | November 2025
Distributed by NewSouth Books

Journalist James Brandt lives in a brittle truce with his partner Dylan and his family, never talking about the homophobic attacks he exposed in his rural hometown, including the brutal death of a beloved cousin twenty years ago.

But this illusion of peace is ripped apart by the start of the state’s historical gay-hate crime inquiry, and the reappearance of Continue reading Dirt Trap →

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Yvonne Low

Yvonne Low
Yvonne Low
Yvonne Low is a writer, illustrator and award-winning fine artist, creating picture books, poetry and junior fiction. While nature is her main inspiration, through her background in the performing arts as a dancer and choreographer, theatre, film, music and foreign cultures also feed her imagination. Her work is whimsical and often has a dash of humour and wordplay. Continue reading Yvonne Low →

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