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!

We took a peek into future and saw young writers all over Brimbank penning, drawing, reading, telling, sharing, crafting and designing stories in inspiring comfortable spaces they called their own. Our Story Hubs feasibility report shows how we can turn that future into a reality!

Listen to bite-sized criminal confessions, detective debriefs, inmate interviews and bone-chilling whodunnits in our latest 'Crime Special' Podcast by young storytellers!

Level 87 Book Club has been making audacious forays into schools in Melbourne's west. Book Club veteran and 100 Story Building reporter Darvey reports on the club's exploits...

Level 87 Book Club is going on the road to secondary schools in Melbourne's west to find new recruits and resolve the unresolvable!

South Australian artist George Rex takes up residency for six weeks on Level 49 to log the peculiar goings-on at 100 Story Building.

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!

Students of Footscray North Primary travel 20 years into the future and report back to Maribyrnong City Council on the fabulous facilities they saw dotting their neighbourhoods!

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!

Book your 100 Story Holidays workshop! Journey down the trapdoor to script radio plays, pen spy thrillers, build dioramas to secret rooms and create choose-your-own-adventure capers. Ages 7-11 years.

Young editors from Melbourne's west launch early harvest issue six, a magazine for children by children, at The Bowery Theatre in St Albans.

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.

English teachers at Hoppers Crossing Secondary College recently journeyed down the trapdoor on a quest for tips, tricks and tools to transform Year 8 students into brilliant, majestic talespinners. Ernest Price, Director of English, sent us a letter sharing all the fun the teachers and students have had since.

Former Early Harvest editor and current mentor Caitlin (age 13) caught up with criminal masterminds Mary (age 10) and Grace (age 11) to uncover the mysterious goings-on at the weekly early harvest issue six editorial meets over the last ten weeks!

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!