WE RUN TOMORROW
By Nat Amoore with art by Mike Barry
BOOK 1: OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2022
Welcome to our first Lit Club 4 Kids book We Run Tomorrow
by Nat Amoore with artwork by Mike Barry!
Lit Club 4 Kids Q&A Event
We had an wonderful time at our very first Author Q&A on Tuesday, 6th December with Nat and Mike! Check out the recording of our Q&A below:
Have you ever wondered how the characters in the book got their names, if Nat Amoore had a Lockett Squad of her own growing up, whether Nat and Mike can really speak Japanese or … if we can expect a We Run Tomorrow sequel?
We were blown away by the incredible questions from our Lit Club 4 Kids crew on the night... and so were Nat Amoore and Mike Barry! Find out the answers too all your burning questions below…
NOTE: There are book spoilers in the Q&A Webinar!
What did you think of We Run Tomorrow?
Check out some of the EPIC reviews our Lit Club 4 Kids crew have left so far…
Where to find
We Run Tomorrow?
Purchase We Run Tomorrow from Dymocks Children’s Charities with 100% of proceeds going to help disadvantaged children access critical literacy programs.
Or check out your school or local library
Activities
You can scroll through all of the We Run Tomorrow activities below!
To download the activity please click on the download button on each image.
A very special welcome from We Run Tomorrow Author,
Nat Amoore:
Meet the Author & Illustrator
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Nat Amoore
AUTHOR
Nat Amoore is a Sydney-based children's author and kidlit podcast host of One More Page. Her debut novel, Secrets of a Schoolyard Millionaire, came out in 2019 and has had great success as both Dymocks and QBD's 'Kids Book Of The Month', becoming Australia's #1 bestselling debut Aussie children’s fiction in 2019. It has now sold into the UK, US, Italy, China, Estonia and Romania.
Her second book, The Power of Positive Pranking, released in 2020, was shortlisted for the 2021 Readings Children’s Book Prize and REAL Children’s Choice Book Awards, and won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature. The Right Way To Rock came out in June 2021 and Nat is super excited to be celebrating her latest release, a novel/graphic novel hybrid We Run Tomorrow, that hits stores in May 2022.
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Mike Barry
ILLUSTRATOR
Mike Barry is a writer and illustrator from Sydney's Northern Beaches.
He created, crowd-funded and self-published the first two books in his middle-grade graphic novel series, Action Tank, which have been shortlisted for multiple literary awards including the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Russell Prize for Humour Writing for Young People, Aurealis Awards and Comic Arts Awards of Australia.
The first Action Tank book was also included in the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge, and earned Mike a mentorship in the CBCA Maurice Saxby Creative Development Program.
In 2022 Mike joined forces with bestselling author Nat Amoore to illustrate We Run Tomorrow, a story about four kids - and four superheroes - who are taking their future into their own hands.