Kids Night In 3

Thursday, October 1. 2009

Kids Night In 3

Book launch tonight for Kids Night In 3: a collection of poems, short prose and illustrations gathered together into one hefty volume by the good folk at Penguin Books Australia. Cover by Shaun Tan. Contributions by our finest children's writers and illustrators, some welcome ring-ins from the world of grown-up books, and the occasional rock star. Proceeds to War Child. Go buy it!

Here is the book:

You can apparently bid in an auction for Shaun's cover art, but I can't find the link. Anyone know where it is?

And here are the contributors who were at tonight's launch (sans Ursula Dubosarsky, who had to leave before the photo was taken), wearing their snazzy PJs for the Kids Night In!

L-R: Anna Fienberg (in white), Dave Hackett, Jessica Adams, Stephen Axelsen (in fez!), Cassandra Golds (in barely visible, but trust me, gorgeous floral jimjams) and Rob Hirst. In front: Laura Harris from Penguin and in the middle Clare from War Child with her daughter.

Did I say—go buy it!

(Oh, and—I met the drummer from Midnight Oil. That was pretty cool. Come on, grant me a fangirl moment!)

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