Participants will walk through Como Gardens with author Andrea Rowe, and joined by illustrator Lisa Coutts, will share pages from their new picture book 'Audrey Skips'.
What to expect
This 90 minute outdoor storytelling walk is designed for families with children aged toddler to tweens. Participants will follow the author on a walk through Como Gardens, stopping at key spots where author Andrea Rowe, dressed as Audrey, and illustrator Lisa Coutts, share pages from their new picture book ‘Audrey Skips’ accompanied by their Skipping Girl puppet.
Children are invited to join in using small props including toy street lamps, trams, bakers’ buns, newspapers, and tradesmen’s tools. The walk concludes with a craft activity celebrating Audrey’s 90th birthday, plus skipping rope fun! Purchase a copy of Audrey Skips from the Como shop, Andrea and Lisa will sign it for you!
Andrea Rowe
Andrea Rowe is a multi-award winning, best-selling Australian children’s author who writes stories that children adore, and families and educators share to explore the world with curiosity and compassion. Her highly acclaimed picture books are published around the world. She loves writing stories that fill up our hearts and heads. Andrea’s debut, best-selling picture book, Jetty Jumping, won the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year – Early Childhood and 2023 Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year. It has become a much loved contemporary Australian classic. A passionate advocate for Australian children’s literature and connected communities, Andrea is the 2025 inaugural ambassador for Victoria’s Public Libraries, a May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust fellow.
Lisa Coutts
Lisa Coutts is an illustrator based in Narrm, Melbourne. Lisa creates charming characters and placing them in quirky and whimsical worlds.
