I Don't Need a Little Brother

About the Author

Nat Amoore (Author) Nat Amoore is a Sydney-based children's author whose debut novel, Secrets of a Schoolyard Millionaire, came out in 2019. It 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. Rounding out Nat's trilogy about the kids of Watterson Primary, The Right Way to Rock was released in June 2021 and became a CBCA Notable. In 2021, Nat wrote a 5-part fiction podcast series called Project ARI for Nova Entertainment and the Australian Government as part of the #StopItAtTheStart campaign. Project ARI won Best Branded Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and went on to receive an ACRA in 2022. We Run Tomorrow, written by Nat and featuring graphic novel-style illustrations from Australian illustrator Mike Barry, was published in 2022, becoming another CBCA Notable. The first three books in Nat's hilarious junior fiction Shower Land series, illustrated by James Hart, were published in 2024. Now it's time to get excited about Nat's laugh-out-loud picture book I Don't Need A Little Brother, illustrated by Nathaniel Eckstrom and published in 2025. Nathaniel Eckstrom (Illustrator) Nathaniel Eckstrom is a CBCA-shortlisted illustrator based in Sydney. His playful and dreamlike illustrations are as warm and energetic as your favourite sibling.