A pied currawong silhouetted against a twilight sky over Tasmanian eucalypt forest

A debut picture book

Clara the Carolling Currawong

A Bush Tale of Finding Your Own Colour

Story and art direction by James Nielsen

Out where the wattle puffs gold and the gum trees stretch tall, a young currawong named Clara has a secret tucked deep under her wing.

She loves the pink of a waratah, the gold of a wattle, and the blue, blue, never-ending blue of an Aussie summer sky — if only she didn’t have to wear black. From a flame robin among the flannel flowers to a wise old Boobook owl in the river red gum, Clara goes searching for a colour of her own.

A heart-warming Australian bush tale about belonging, creativity, and being gloriously your own.

Front cover of Clara the Carolling Currawong — a black currawong with yellow eyes perched on a eucalypt branch above a Tasmanian valley
Hardcover · 20 pages · Ages 3–8 A$29.95 trade · A$39.95 signed first edition

The signed first edition

One hundred and fifty copies, hand-numbered and signed.

A small, finite first run. Each copy is hand-numbered from 1 to 150, signed by the author on a tipped-in bookplate, and dispatched in November 2027 in time for Christmas. Once they are gone, they are gone — the trade edition that follows will not be numbered or signed.

Edition
Hardcover, 20 pages, 11 × 8.5 inch landscape
Price
A$39.95 + postage
Dispatch
November 2027
Inscription
Optional, on request

15 of 150 copies reserved so far

Reserve a signed copy

Opens an email to hello@currawongbookspress.com.au with the details we need. We reply within a day or two to confirm your copy number. Invoices are sent in early November 2027, just before dispatch.

The publisher

Currawong Books Press

A small independent press making quiet stories from a wild country — Australian picture books with heart, produced slowly in the Huon Valley of lutruwita / Tasmania. Clara the Carolling Currawong is our debut title.

Publish fewer books, better.