This is Us: Essential Australian Poems for Young People
By (Author) Libby Hathorn
Edited by Judith Fell
National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia
1st November 2025
Australia
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage: Poetry / poems
Hardback
112
Width 188mm, Height 264mm
In this beautifully illustrated collection of poems, editors Judith Fell and Libby Hathorn have have gathered the voices of all kinds of Australians, from modern poets such as Miriam Wei Wei Lo and Jazz Money to household names such as Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson.
Carefully crafted into 10 chapters, readers will find poems that make them laugh (like You and I by C.J. Dennis and Things That Go Squark by Peter Wesley-Smith) and sing, and connect them with Australians old and new.
This is a collection to have on standby. To pore over both words and artwork. It's a coffee table book, a library book, a bedside book, a beachtowel, riverside or city-side book. Most of all a poetry book to savour and to share.
Libby Hathorn is an Australian award-winning author and poet of more than eighty books for children and young people. Her recent picture book No! Never! written with her daughter Lisa Hathorn-Jarman, won the CBCA Children's Picture Book of the Year Award, Younger Readers in 2021.
Judith Fell is a lifelong educator and emerging poet. She writes lyrical rhyming poems about memory, history and nature. Her poem In Albert was published in When Anzac Comes Around: A Hundred Years From Gallipoli Poetry Project in 2015.