A teacher-librarian at Hughes Primary School has been announced as the 2025 Reading Australia Fellow at the Australian Association for the Teaching of English/Australian Literacy Educators’ Association National Conference.

Libby Baker wins the fellowship for her project, Everybody’s Story: Investigating character diversity in Reading Australia and award-winning picture books using a functional grammar analysis.

Her research will focus on award-winning and nominated picture books from the CBCA Book of the Year Awards, the Koala Awards, the SCBWI Picture Book Illustrator Award, the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Young Australian Best Book Awards

The fellowship provides $15,000 to a leading English and/or literacy teacher or teacher librarian to undertake a career-enhancing research project that will benefit the successful fellow and the education sector.

Copyright Agency created Reading Australia in 2013 and there are now more than 300 curriculum-mapped resources on Reading Australia for years F–12.