Kids Cover 2024 - Ed#725

The winning entry in our annual Kids Cover Competition is the definition of a Down Under Christmas: sun, surf and Santa takin’ it easy. The winning designer is 12-year-old Frankie Kelly from Newcastle, NSW. “I thought it would be really cool to combine the Australian lifestyle with Christmas, to create a scene on the beach,” she says of her artwork. “I’m really into pop art and really bright and colourful pieces, and I wanted to use a few different mediums.”

More highlights in this edition:

• Authors Kate Mildenhall, Winnie Dunn, Graeme Simsion and Anita Heiss invite us ’round for the holidays with festive reflections on food and family.
• The only female lead in Gladiator and Gladiator II, Connie Nielsen tells us about returning to a world of ancient Roman spectacle.
• In The Big Picture, photographer Jen Guyton captures collaborative meerkats plus the lives of researchers studying them in the Kalahari.
• In Tastes Like Home, Nadine Ingram bakes memories of her grandparents’ orchard into her custardy, welcoming Agrarian Apricot Tart.