Amanda Commander : The Purple Invitation (Amanda Commander, 1)

Amanda Commander is kind, loyal and a natural-born leader. But even school can be a battlefield at times, so sometimes Amanda and her Squad need a plan just to survive. When every girl in Year Three gets an invitation to Eve’s birthday party except Amanda, Amanda makes a plan, with the help of the Dolphin Squad, to win herself an invitation before the week is through. It’s OPERATION INVITATION! Amanda tries everything to make Eve like her and get an invitation to the party, until she finally learns it’s more important to be kind, not for what you can get but because of who you are. The first in a lovely early reader series about how to rise up to the challenges that being a kid throws at you, while cultivating some great relationships along the way.

Coral Vass is an award-winning Australian children's author. She has always loved telling stories and has been writing books for over ten years. Coral is an ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty and is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read.

After spending twenty years playing with clay, Heidi rediscovered her love for illustration. Six months after picking up her pencils and paints, Heidi was offered her first illustration contract with Koala Books. In 2015 and 2016 she won the CYA illustrated manuscript competition, which led to the publication of her first book as both author and illustrator in 2018 with Wombat Books.