Andrea Rowe

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    Andrea Rowe is a best-selling, award-winning Australian picture book author. Her books are well loved by educators and families with lyrical language, nostalgic settings and scenarios, while pondering big questions and tricky feelings, inspiring conversations with young readers.

    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. Best-selling Sunday Skating was released in June 2023 in Australia, UK and USA. In the Rockpools (Hardie Grant) was awarded a 2024 CBCA Notable Picture Book of the Year – Early Childhood. Its follow-up Amid the Sand Dunes is due October 2024. There are more picture books on the way.

    Her writing also features in the Teacher, Teacher anthology with Affirm Press. Andrea is also the winner of several Australian short story awards, an ambassador for Australian children’s literature, an Ardoch Youth Foundation Writer In Resident and the 2024 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellow.

    Andrea Rowe Books In Order