Help us decide the theme of the Early Harvest book this year.Vote for your favourite theme for the book TODAY!

We want young readers at home to help us come up with the theme for this year's Early Harvest book.100 Story Building facilitator Brendan is here to show you how to come up with a good theme.

The Sound of the Dark has been included in the Australian Book Designers Award 2020 longlist for Children's Fiction Book category.Thank you Gandel Philanthropy and Besen Family Foundation for your confidence in our program and the young editors.

CREEPY HORROR is the theme of Early Harvest this year.Author Tony Wilson sets the ball rolling with a workshop with young writers in Dandenong on what makes for a good CREEPY HORROR story!

Missing a dream or two? You might just find it hidden between the pages of Early Harvest 7, the annual children’s fiction magazine.Fourteen young editors, 12 young writers and Australian Children’s Laureate Morris Gleitzman saved the world from a dreampocalypse and swept the lost dreams into the issue! Readership age: 7+

Artist Jennifer Tran creates a 'Dream' inspired installation for 100 Story Building's shop window!

Early Harvest 7, our annual children's fiction publication, is set to launch on 10 November.Join us in celebrating the young Australian editors and writers!

The theme of early harvest issue seven is DREAMS!Children's book authors Andrew McDonald, Davina Bell, Susannah MacFarlane and Tony Wilson are helping students in Dandenong to write the dream story that will get them published!

The latest issue AEU News magazine, a quarterly magazine for teachers across Victoria, has published a fabulous feature on our Early Harvest program!

Early Harvest issue six is now available at Readings Kids bookshop in Carlton. Get your copy today and lose yourself in a world of Crime and Murder Mystery!

Support our Holiday Fundraising and Gift Shop by DONATING and/or BUYING the publications created by the young writers at the Building. Amplify their creative voices by sharing their works with the children in your life!

Did you know that jokes are banned on plant 'Noopertille'? Or that everything is sdrawkcab.. sorry, backwards on the 'Topsy Turvy' land? Pigeon Post Issue# 9 reveals all.For this WEEK ONLY we are offering a copy of Pigeon Post Issue# 9 FREE with every copy of early harvest issue six ordered!

Young editors, Alexandra and Finola, share the crime capers they uncovered while putting together early harvest issue six, with current Early Harvest mentor and former editor Caitlin.

Bestselling children's book author Davina Bell shares what keeps her excited and involved in the Early Harvest project and how she came up with a story of the world's worst detective.

For early harvest issue six, we asked children from Melbourne’s west to dig into the crimes and murder mysteries lurking in their neighbourhoods. Here’s an extract from The Up and Down Case! uncovered by Lili Rivera from St Monica’s Primary School. Illustration by Cameron Baker.

You are invited to the launch of Early Harvest 2017, a magazine by children for children. The theme this year is CRIME and MURDER MYSTERY, and it features mind-boggling mysteries, diabolical villains, criminal quizzes and nefarious games by aspiring young writers from Melbourne’s west and a sprinkling of Australia’s best-loved children’s book authors.

The theme of early harvest issue six is CRIME and MURDER MYSTERY! Brace yourself for stories about books that wail, a clue that is a bag full of clues, the world’s worst detective who also happens to be a panda and a host of other colourful, diabolical and nefarious characters and plotlines!