Amanda Commander: The Yellow Dress
When Amanda and her friends find out Eve has the exact same yellow dress as Amanda and is planning to wear it to the School Disco, Amanda needs to find a way to change Eve’s mind It’s OPERATION DISCO DRESS!
Even though Amanda wants to stand out, she learns encouraging others and standing by your friends is more important.
In their mission to get get Eve to wear a different coloured dress, the Dolphin Squad find that there might be something amazing to be had out of wearing the same dress...
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.