Harmony Week with Sophie Beer

Date: Monday 16 March
Time: 10am – 10:45am

Join author and illustrator Sophie Beer for an interactive digital event to celebrate Harmony Week!

During this session, students will hear Sophie read two of her picture books, Kindness Makes Us Strong and You're Fabulous As You Are. Students will be invited to consider how they show kindness to others and celebrate who they are. Sophie will also answer questions and talk about her creative process.

Kindness Makes Us Strong

Whether we share a toy or include someone in a game, all acts of kindness – no matter how big or small – make the world a better place.

Kindness is doing what you can, where you are, with what you have – in Kindness Makes Us Strong, Sophie Beer introduces us to a bunch of cute kids doing just that.

You're Fabulous As You Are

Sophie Beer celebrates gender expression in all forms in You're Fabulous As You Are, whether it's wearing sparkly tutus or stomping around in big black boots, to having messy fun or quiet time.

You're Fabulous As You Are tells kids it's okay to choose any colour or change your mind, and encourages them to be completely and unashamedly their fabulous selves.

About Sophie Beer

Sophie is an award-winning illustrator/author living in Brisbane, Australia. She rejoices in creating bright, funny books for young people which centre on 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 Writer's 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.