Andrea Rowe

Andrea Rowe is a best-selling, award-winning picture book author. Andrea loves to write stories where characters explore the great outdoors, ponder big questions and move through tricky feelings, which inspire conversations amongst children, families and educators. Her picture book, Jetty Jumping (illustrated by Hannah Sommerville), was awarded the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year – Early Childhood.
Andrea is also the winner of several Australian short story awards, an ambassador for Australian children’s literature, an Ardoch Youth Foundation Writer In Resident and Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation mentor, and has been awarded a 2024 May Gibbs Fellowship.
Andrea loves reading in cosy nooks, where she’s always surrounded by stacks of books.

Books by Andrea Rowe

Andrea Rowe & Hannah Sommerville

Amid the Sand Dunes

Andrea Rowe & Hannah Sommerville

In the Rockpool

Andrea Rowe & Hannah Sommerville

Sunday Skating

Andrea Rowe & Hannah Sommerville

Jetty Jumping

Events with Andrea Rowe

1 December 2024

Storytime with Andrea Rowe in Melbourne

Little Worlds: An Ocean of stories Amid the Sand Dunes and In the Rockpool Join award-winning author Andrea Rowe for a special seaside story time on the veranda of Mary Martin's Queen Vic Market bookshop. Andrea will be reading two books from her wonderful Little Worlds: An Ocean of Stories series: In the Rockpool (a 2024 CBCA Notable) and her brand new book, Amid the Sand Dunes

30 November 2024

Storytime with Andrea Rowe in Sorrento

Storytime with Andrea Rowe Little people love to explore little worlds! Sit in on storytime and crafts with award winning author, Andrea Rowe.

17 November 2024

Andrea Rowe at the Writing Nature Wonder Workshop

WORKSHOP - WILD WRITING Leap, ramble and wander through stories in the great outdoors with award-winning children’s author Andrea Rowe. Deep dive into your imagination, creating adventurous characters in sensational settings inspired by wild and wonderful places

9 November 2024

Amid the Sand Dunes Book Launch

Join Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville for their launch of Amid the Sand Duens at Ulladulla Civic Centre for story celebrations, coast crafts and a chance to see Hannah and Andrea share story making joy together.

27 October 2024

Andrea Rowe at The Queenscliffe Literary Festival

Among the spectacular artefacts at Queenscliffe’s iconic Maritime Museum, Andrea Rowe with Shivaun Plozza and Michael Earp discuss their love of writing stories about shipwrecks, pirates, ocean adventures and sea myths for young and diverse readers.