Sunshine on Vinegar Street

NOTABLE BOOK: 2024 CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers
WINNER: 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, Children's Book Award

Freya's world is turned upside down when she and her mum move to inner-city Melbourne. Now she's ...

Stuck in a new apartment on the eleventh floor and Freya is afraid of lifts.
Stuck in a new basketball team where not everyone likes a new star player.
Stuck in a classroom of kids who don't know Freya is a donor-conceived baby.
Stuck, just like Little Audrey in the Skipping Girl sign suspended over the suburb of Abbotsford.


Being the new girl makes Freya feel like a dark cloud on a summer's day. Can she figure out how to belong on Vinegar Street?

'Very tender and also very funny - a tumbling collage of words and wonderings, fears and triumphs, where the child's world is both the hard, real thing and the stuff of magic,' URSULA DUBOSARSKY, Australian Children's Laureate 2020-2021

Winner of CBCA Awards 2024 (Australia) Winner of Best Designed Children's/Young Adult Cover 2024 (Australia) Long-listed for Book of the Year: Younger Readers 2024 (Australia)

'Tender and funny - a tumbling collage of words and wonderings, fears and triumphs, where the child's world is both the hard, real thing and the stuff of magic.' Ursula Dubosarsky, Australian Children's Laureate 2020-2021

'This universal story is perfect for any young reader who's ever felt left on the outside.' Books + Publishing

'A wonderful addition to Australian verse novels...captured so much heart and joy, as well as the big feelings that we all have...' The Book Muse

Karen Comer is a freelance editor and presents writing workshops to children and adults. Earlier in her career, she worked in educational publishing and was the editor for children's art magazine BIG. She writes middle-grade and young adult verse novels. Karen lives in Melbourne.

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