Recently the books industry was agog at the Federal announcement of an upcoming national Poet Laureate, but outside children’s literary circles, not many people know that the Australian Children’s Laureate initiative has existed since 2012, a program that has also been successfully implemented in the UK, Finland, Netherlands, Mexico, Sweden and Wales.
Now in its seventh iteration, the 2022-23 Laureate is Gabrielle Wang, who tells ArtsHub, ‘The Australian Children’s Laureate program aims to bring the love of story, books, imagination and diversity to children, parents and teachers. We do this through providing lectures, visiting schools, hosting writing workshops and attending writers’ festivals.’
