Amanda Commander: The Purple Invitation
Amanda Commander is kind, loyal and a natural-born leader. But even school can be a battlefield at times, so sometimes Amanda and her Squad need a plan just to survive. When every girl in Year Three gets an invitation to Eve’s birthday party except Amanda, Amanda makes a plan, with the help of the Dolphin Squad, to win herself an invitation before the week is through.
It’s OPERATION INVITATION!
Amanda tries everything to make Eve like her and get an invitation to the party, until she finally learns it’s more important to be kind, not for what you can get but because of who you are. The first in a lovely early reader series about how to rise up to the challenges that being a kid throws at you, while cultivating some great relationships along the way.
Coral Vass is an award-winning Australian children’s author. She has always loved telling stories and has been writing books for over ten years. Coral is an ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty and is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read. With numerous best-sellers, Coral’s awards include the 2018 Speech Pathology Awards for Best Book for Language and Literacy Development – Indigenous Children, the 2019 CBCA Book of the Year Eve Pownall Award and the 2021 Caleb Picture Book of the Year Award. Shehas also been shortlisted for the REAL Awards, voted by the children of Australia.
At an early age Heidi Cooper-Smith knew she wanted to write and illustrate picture books. But during a Visual Arts degree, she fell in love with Ceramics and spent the next 20 years covered in clay. Heidi rediscovered her passion for drawing in 2014 when she joined the online ’52-week illustration challenge’. Six months later she was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books for Two Birds on a Wire. This wonderful experience inspired her to start writing, and in 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition. Kate and the Thing is Heidi’s first book as both author and illustrator. She was also the illustrator of The Other Brother.
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