This is Us: an essential addition to every young person's bookshelf
This poetry collection for young people features poems selected by Libby Hathorn and Jude Fell, and is illustrated by Tull Suwannakit
From modern poets such as Miriam Wei Wei Lo and Jazz Money to household names such as Banjo Paterson and CJ Dennis, this new collection has gathered the voices of all kinds of Australians, reflecting on our diversity and what it means to be Australian.
Award-winning author and poet Libby Hathorn, and educator and emerging poet Jude Fell, have carefully selected poems to make us laugh, sing, dream, celebrate and wonder. Families will discover new favourite poems and revisit some beloved classics. Exploring themes of connection, journey, remembrance and nature, there is something within this book to make everyone feel seen and understood.
Readers aged 6 to 100 will be enchanted by Tull Suwannakit’s stunning illustrations tailored to each poem, and the artwork as well as the words will be repeatedly pored over. This is a book to have on standby. It’s a coffee table book, a library book, a bedside book, a beach-side, riverside or city-side book. Most of all it is a book to share.
This is Us: Essential Australian Poems for Young People will be released on 1 November 2025.
About the editors and illustrator
Libby Hathorn is an Australian award-winning author and poet of more than eighty books for children and young people. Her recent picture book No! Never! written with her daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the CBCA Children’s Picture Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers in 2021.
Jude Fell is a lifelong educator and emerging poet. She writes lyrical rhyming poems about memory, history and nature. Her poem In Albert was published in When Anzac Comes Around: A Hundred Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project in 2015.
Tull Suwannakit is an Australian book illustrator and author for children with a background in animation and fine art. His books have been published in Australia, USA, UK and Thailand, as well as being translated into numerous languages. He works predominantly with watercolour and graphite.
Media kit
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View the full list of poets
A.D. Hope
ado Webster
Alexa Moses
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Andrew ‘Banjo’ Paterson
C.J. Dennis
David Campbell
Diane Fahey
Dorothea Mackellar
Eileen Chong
Elizabeth Cummings
Elizabeth Riddell
Evelyn Araluen
Geoff Page
Hasib Hourani
Henry Kendall
Henry Lawson
Jackie French
Jazz Money
Jeanine Leane
Jihad Yassine
Jill McDougall
John Shaw Neilson
Jude Fell
Judith Beveridge
Judith Wright
Kate Llewellyn
Les Murray
Libby Hathorn
Luke Davies
Mary Duroux
Mary E. Fullerton
Mary Gilmore
Max Fatchen
Michael Leunig
Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Mollie E. McNutt
Nancy Fotheringham Cato
Nandi Chinna
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Peter Skrzynecki
Peter Wesley-Smith
Robert Adamson
Roberta Lowing
Sara Mansour
Simon Mellor
Tenzin Choegyal
Thea Astley
Theresa Sainty
Thuy Ai Nguyen Thi
Vance Palmer
Contact
Lauren Conron, Media Liaison, National Library of Australia
Phone: 0401 226 697
Email: media@nla.gov.au