Celebrate Kindness with Sophie Beer

Date: Tuesday 1 December, 10am – 10:45am (AEST)

Join award-winning author and illustrator Sophie Beer as we celebrate Twelve Days of Kindness! Sophie will read her picture book, help students consider how they can show kindness to themselves and others, as well as participate in a live Q&A session.

Twelve Days of Kindness

There's so much more to Christmas than just getting presents. Celebrate all the ways you can be generous and kind in Twelve Days of Kindness. Whether it's making a card, sharing freshly baked cookies or sprinkling sparkly cheer, there are many kind ways to brighten someone else's day during Christmas. Explore some of the simple ways you can spread kindness with this uplifting story by Sophie Beer.

About Sophie Beer

Sophie Beer is an illustrator/author living in Brisbane, Australia. She rejoices in creating bright, funny books for young people which centre equality, inclusion and kindness. Her books have been printed all over the world and have sold close to one million copies. She has published with Penguin Random House New York, Simon & Schuster, Hardie Grant, Scholastic, and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with the likes of Disney, Google, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and The Boston Globe. As a writer, her work has appeared in Frankie Magazine, The Guardian, and The Big Issue. In 2022 she received a Varuna Writers Space Fellowship to complete her first middle grade novel Thunderhead, which was published by Allen & Unwin in 2024.

When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books, equality, and Aldi choc-chip biscuits.

Explore Sophie's website.