📚✨Caroline L. Perry ✨📚
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📚✨Caroline L. Perry ✨📚
@carolinelperry.bsky.social
Picture book author
www.carolinelperry.com

Links: https://linktr.ee/carolinelperry

📘I Am Not Happy! 🇦🇺 (S&S, ‘25)
📕 Messi’s Magic ⚽️ (Scholastic, ‘25)
📗Nighty Knight 🏰 (S&S, ‘26)
📙The Memory Cake 🇲🇹 (out now!)
📚 The Corgi and the Queen (out now!)
🎉 I couldn’t be more delighted to share this news: I AM NOT HAPPY! is a KIDS’ INDIE NEXT PICK for November/December! 🎉

This honor means so much, especially because it comes from indie booksellers—tastemakers, joy-bringers, and some of the very best people, anywhere! THANK YOU, indies!
🎉🇦🇺 🐾 📖 😀🥳❤️🎉
October 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
✨ I AM NOT HAPPY! bounces onto shelves in just ONE WEEK’S TIME! Check out this adorable trailer 🎉✨

This book—written by me, and illustrated by the amazing @sydhanson—is guaranteed to turn any frown upside down!

Preorder now and get a FREE plush quokka keyring! Link in bio 🇦🇺 🐾 📖

#quokka #kidlit
September 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🐾 HOLY QUOKKAMOLE! 🐾

I AM NOT HAPPY! bounces onto shelves in two weeks’ time!

Preorder mine & @sydhanson’s hilarious new picture book & get a FREE plush quokka keychain! Order from an indie for a bonus surprise! 🤩

Link to preorder form in bio 🇦🇺✨

U.S. only, ends 10/6/25.

#kidlit #australia #book
September 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
✨ TODAY’S THE DAY — Messi’s Magic kicks off! ⚽️📚✨

I’m so excited to share the trailer for my picture book biography of the G.O.A.T. 🐐—Lionel Messi!

With heart ❤️, determination 💪, and a little bit of magic 🪄 , Messi’s story will inspire dreamers of all ages. Available now! ⚽️ 🥅
#kidlit #newbook
September 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
✨ I’m so excited for the official launch of Messi’s Magic at @pagesabookstore on Saturday 9/6 at 10.30am! ✨

⚽️ Score signed copies, delicious treats and soccer-themed goodies, and enjoy a book reading and crafts!

⚽️ LA friends, I hope to see you there 🥰

#soccer #messi #kidlit #newbook
September 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
✨I’m overjoyed to announce that Messi’s Magic is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!✨

Messi’s Magic is ready for kickoff on September 2nd, and it’s available for preorder now! ⚽️ 🥅 📕 🎉🏅

#goldstandardselection #JLGgoldstandard
#juniorlibraryguild #thebestbooks #messi #kidlit
August 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
✨ Today is The Memory Cake’s book birthday! ✨

This special book, stunningly illustrated by Jennifer Bricking, is a story of my heart and a tribute to resilience, love, Malta’s unique culture, and cake!

Available from anywhere books are sold 🇲🇹 🍰 ✨📕

#kidlit #newbook #picturebook #author
June 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
✨ The Memory Cake is out tomorrow!✨

This story of my heart shines a light on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta and its remarkable contributions during WWII, celebrating intergenerational bonds, resilience, the power of storytelling… and cakes!

#kidlit #newbook #malta #cake #picturebook
June 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I’m delighted to be able to share news of Nobody’s Cat! I’ve wanted to write a ghost town story for as long as I can remember, and I feel so lucky to be working with Devin Fan on this project! Thank you so much to the team at Kids Can Press, I can’t wait for readers to meet Fancy 🐈‍⬛📕❤️
#kidlit
May 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Memory Cake is a story of resilience, love and connection, stunningly illustrated by Jen Bricking. It comes out on June 3rd with @holidayhouse but if you preorder today or tomorrow you can get it for 25% off!!
April 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I AM NOT HAPPY! is bouncing onto shelves on October 7th but you can get 25% off in Barnes & Noble’s preorder sale!

Link to purchase in bio…. We promise this book will turn your frown upside down! 🥰 🇦🇺 📕 🐾

#quokka #kidlit #quokkas #picturebook #picturebookart #newbook #australia #picturebooks
April 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In exactly six months I AM NOT HAPPY! will hop onto shelves! We can't wait for everyone to meet our adorable, mercurial marsupial (and it's available for preorder now... if you'd like a signed copy, please buy from my lovely local indie: pagesabookstore.com/book/9781665...) 🇦🇺 🐾 📕 ❤️

#quokka #kidlit
April 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I'm here for the funny women! Loving @devpetty.bsky.social's new book Monty and the Mushrooms; anything by @amedyckman.bsky.social; @maddiefrost.bsky.social; @phaeacrede.bsky.social and I have to throw my forthcoming funny I AM NOT HAPPY! into the mix (Sydney Hanson's illustrations are the cutest!)
March 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
There are no words to express how devastated we are in Los Angeles. We have many friends who have lost homes. On the news, we watched my daughter’s former preschool burn. Places we loved have been destroyed. Please hold everyone who has been impacted in your hearts, and donate: enla.org/donate
January 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Hello Bluesky friends, old and new! I'm starting the year by sharing some new-ish news: my latest book, NIGHTY KNIGHT, (illustrated by the brilliant Scott Magoon) will gallop onto shelves in 2026! We can't wait for you to meet our hapless hero and the kingdom's cast of chaos-makers 📕🏰⚔️🛡️#kidlit
January 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Miss 8 likes to be sung to sleep. Tonight she requested O Holy Night, so I duly obliged.
“Mummy, you sound like Mariah Carey… but worse.” (I’ll keep the compliment part 😂). She also asked Santa to leave her his autograph, so I hope the old guy obliges.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!🎄🎁🎅💕
December 25, 2024 at 8:29 AM
🎉🎂📕Happy second birthday to The Corgi and the Queen! 📕🎂🎉

It’s hard to believe that it’s been two whole years since my first book baby debuted: it’s been quite the ride!

I’m grateful to everyone who has bought, borrowed & supported this story along the way. Here’s to her next adventures! 🥳 #kidlit
November 22, 2024 at 6:14 PM
🇲🇹🍰✨📕COVER REVEAL!📕✨🍰🇲🇹

I'm thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming picture book, The Memory Cake, which has been stunningly illustrated by Jennifer Bricking!

This book of my heart is out in June '25 with Holiday House, but it's available for preorder now from anywhere 📚 are sold!

#kidlit
November 20, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Dear Santa… 🎁 🫶🏻
November 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
That’s a wrap on WRAD! 📚🐾👑🥰
February 8, 2024 at 5:02 AM
I’m delighted to be quoted in PEOPLE magazine! 🐾👑📚🎁✨🎄

people.com/queen-elizab...
December 16, 2023 at 3:00 AM
The Corgi and the Queen has been selected as one of Vogue magazine’s best holiday gifts! What an honor to feature on this most fashionable of lists 🥰📚🐾🇬🇧👑
November 7, 2023 at 8:50 PM
I had the best time at Corgi Beach Day! I signed dozens of copies of The Corgi and the Queen, met some amazing people and, best of all, enjoyed so many corgi cuddles! 😍🐾👑📚
October 31, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Amped up my swag for Corgi Beach Day tomorrow! I’m so excited for all the corgi cuddles 😍🐾📚👑
October 28, 2023 at 6:44 AM
I'm so excited to be heading back to Corgi Beach Day, the biggest 'pawty' on the planet! Join me and thousands of corgis (and corgi admirers) this Saturday at Huntington Dog Beach, 100 Goldenwest Avenue, Huntington Beach CA, from 10am-3pm! 🐾📚👑🐾
October 24, 2023 at 4:37 AM