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Save the date – Once Upon a Festival Community Evening – 29 October 2026

Mark your calendars for the Once Upon a Festival Community Evening on Thursday 29 October 2026, from 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm at the Immanuel College Senior School Lawns Pavilion & surrounds. As a highlight of the much-loved Once Upon a Festival, this free community event promises a fun-filled evening for the whole family. Enjoy a vibrant fairground atmosphere featuring live […]

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Katrina Nannestad’s ‘All the beautiful things’ wins the 2025 Indie Book Children’s category Award!

All the Beautiful Things by Katrina Nannestad is an impeccably researched historical novel set in Nazi Germany. Tugging at the heart-strings, it is a must-read novel for middle-grade readers…

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New Jack Heath novel released!

Jack Heath’s newest novel ‘The Spider Army’ released on the 1st of March 2025!

Here’s a sneak peak…

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‘Kevin saves the Show’ has just been released!

Once again, award winning author Jacqueline Harvey has teamed up with illustrator and stop-motion animation artist Kate Isobel Scott, having created the second book in the Kevin the Sheep series, Kevin saves the Show!

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Lili Wilkinson’s ‘A Hunger of Thorns’ awarded CBCA Honour Book in the 2024 Older Readers category

‘A Hunger of Thorns’ is one of the novels that Lili will discuss during Once Upon a Festival as part of her ‘Lili Wilkinson on Fantasy’ talk for Students in Years 7-11…

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Charlotte Barkla’s second book in the 11 Ruby Road historical fiction series, 1925, has just been released!

It is 1925 and Bert Mueller and his German-Australian family have moved from Ipswich to their new house at 11 Ruby Road. Bert’s father has been deported to Germany after the Great War, and with Dad still absent, Bert is unsure about moving away.

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This is no April Fool’s Day joke! Secret Agent Mole – Book 3 released!

Dr Nude’s anti-gravity Doomsday Device is ready to blow. Max and the team have to stop it or the entire Earth could be split in two … and then they’ll never get their secret agent licences!

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