Liz Ledden
Liz Ledden is a Sydney-based kids’ book author of quirky, fun and warm-hearted stories. Liz’s published picture books are Everyone Wants an Octopus Book!, Walking Your Human and Tulip and Brutus.
Liz Ledden
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Please get in touch via email: liz [dot] ledden [at] gmail [dot] com

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👯‍♀️ Duo costume ideas for Book Week! 👯‍♀️ Some kids prefer going with a friend in their Book Week parade (and it's fun!) so here are some twosome costume ideas from my picture books! And they're low-stress with random things you might already have (which has always been my strategy!): 🐙 From Everyone Wants an Octopus Book! ~ dress as Inky the octopus: lilac clothes, hot pink beret (or any hat). For BFF Quack the duck: white clothes, yellow bandana. Bonus if you can muster it up, a cardboard beak! Illustrations by @makotokoji Published by @hardiegrantkids 🐶 From Walking Your Human ~ any dog and human pair (lots to choose from!). This zany lady has a fun outfit for inspo. One friend could be a dog and lead their human around the parade! Illustrations by @gabriellapetrusoart Published by @larrikinhouse 🐞 From Tulip and Brutus ~ dress as Brutus the stinkbug in red clothes with blue splotches, or Tulip the ladybug in red with black spots. Add some antennae. Yay! Illustrations by @andrewplantartist Published by @fordstreetpublishing There are so many easy costume ideas where you can rustle up stuff from the cupboard and dress-ups, no need for expensive shopping trips or midnight sew-athons, unless that's your thing of course! Happy Book Week and costume sorting! 📚📚📚🎉🎉🎉 #bookweek2025
Another day, another kidlit soiree, and today we'r Another day, another kidlit soiree, and today we're celebrating @shellyunwin and her new picture book, Wait a Minute! A super relatable tale of trying to get out the door. The page turns are so clever and fun, great for getting kids guessing! Congrats Shelly, @azore_illustration and @larrikinhouse ! 💛🫧 #waitaminute #loveozkidlit #picturebooklove #booklaunch
Such a great day at the Kids and YA Festival by @w Such a great day at the Kids and YA Festival by @writingnsw ~ panel talks and kidlit catch-ups all day long 💘 #kidsandyafest2025 #loveozkidlit
Ube matcha and more in Marrickville 💜 Ube matcha and more in Marrickville 💜
✿ A picture book from Japan ✿ On our trip to ✿ A picture book from Japan ✿ On our trip to Tokyo last year, we stumbled upon the most atmospheric bookshop while exploring the neighbourhood of Kurumae. Think a mix of vintage, foreign and Japanese picture books in one cute and small shop, with illustration exhibitions on the walls! ☆ I had to find the perfect Japanese picture book to take home. Enter: Come to Our Town, by Yosuke Omomo. A few pics of this adorable tale of a town run by animals - in love with these illustrations, the colours, style, cuteness and imaginary scenarios! Also a few pics of the bookshop inside and out, which was a dream find in a favourite area of Tokyo. ☆ I feature this PB in my most recent Substack newsletter, Lemongrass Letters. Link in bio if you'd like to subscribe (all-age books, travel, food and other assorted rambles!). ☆
Picked up this beauty from @gleebooks_dulwich ~ A Picked up this beauty from @gleebooks_dulwich ~ A Lemon for Safiya by talented friends @jemima.write_make_play & @nisaluk.c.illustrations 🍋 It's absolutely beautiful, will be seeking signatures shortly!!
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