Children’s author Stephanie Owen Reeder and illustrator Ingrid Bartkowiak uncovered the perfectly peculiar world of Australian animal families with their new book Peculiar Parents.

We held the 2025 Kenneth Myer Lecture, presented by Professor Brett Sutton AO.

Children’s picture book creator Ronojoy Ghosh led a writing and drawing school holiday activity.

Children’s picture book creator Ronojoy Ghosh led a writing and drawing school holiday activity.

Brooke Blurton and Dr Melanie Saward yarned about their new young adult novel, A Good Kind of Trouble, and what it means to write Indigenous-led stories for today’s young people.

National Cyber Security Coordinator Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness CSC reflected on her life and work.

We read 'The Truck Cat' for National Simultaneous Storytime 2025.

We had dinner at Bookplate with renowned photojournalist, and guest curator of our Fit to Print exhibition, Mike Bowers.

Staff from across Canberra’s National Cultural Institutions shared their experiences working with Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP) rights.

We had a paw-sitive reading experience with the Story Dogs program.