Sophie Beer

Sophie Beer is an award-winning illustrator/author living in Brisbane, Australia.

Sophie Beer is an award-winning illustrator/author living in Brisbane, Australia. She rejoices in creating bright, funny picture books which centre equality, inclusion and kindness. Her books have been printed all over the world and have sold close to one million copies. She has published with Penguin Random House New York, Simon & Schuster, Hardie Grant, Scholastic, and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with the likes of Disney, Google, The Guardian, The Boston Globe. As a writer, her work has appeared in Frankie Magazine and The Big Issue. In 2022 she received a Varuna Writers Space Fellowship to complete her first middle grade novel. When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books, equality, and Aldi choc-chip biscuits.  

Winner of the 2016 SCBWI Penguin/Random House Portfolio award.

Books:

April 2018 - Naughty Pups! and Rainbow Pups! (Hardie Grant Egmont/Little Hare)

May 2018 - Love Makes a Family (Hardie Grant Egmont/Little Hare) (Out in the US with Penguin’s Dial Books for Young Readers)

July 2018 - Wren by Katrina Lehman (Scribe)

August 2018 - Amazing Australian Women by Pamela Freeman (Hachette)

May 2019 - Arthur and the Tiger (Penguin Random House)

June 2019 - Kindness Makes Us Strong ( (Hardie Grant Egmont/Little Hare) (Out in the US with Penguin’s Dial Books for Young Readers)

June 2020 - Change Starts With Us ( (Hardie Grant Egmont/Little Hare) (Out in the US with Penguin’s Dial Books for Young Readers)

Free feel to chat with me via hi@sophie-beer.com
I adore hearing about projects and am always up for collaborations!

Advertising/editorial clients include: Google, Disney/Pixar, Clemenger BBDO, M&C Saatchi, Leo Burnett, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, the Sydney Opera House, ABC News, Reader's Digest, The Big Issue, 7-Eleven, and many more. 

Publishing clients include: Hardie Grant Egmont, Scholastic UK, Scribe Publications, Penguin Random House Australia, Nosy Crow, Simon & Schuster New York, Quarto Group, Hachette, and many more.

Wanna work together?

For enquiries, please contact my commercial agent:

The Jacky Winter Group

info@jackywinter.com

AU +61.(0)3.8060.9745

USA +1.646.797.2761

UK +44.20.8144.9874

If you have a job which doesn't fit into the above, use the form below and we can chat!