2025 Children’s Book Week Poster by Julie Flett Revealed
The 2025 Children’s Book Week poster by the extraordinary Julie Flett was revealed yesterday in PW Children’s Bookshelf. This joyful image is the perfect visual representation of this year’s theme, An Ocean of Stories. Flett shared some of her thought process in creating the poster with us.
“I had so many thoughts on our connections to water. I thought about Autumn Peltier’s work, and all of the people who are working to care for the water at this time.
I also thought about all of the stories we have as children and our relationship to the water. I remember when we’d drive out to my grandma’s place in the summer, I’d jump out of the car and run straight to the river behind their place to start looking for frogs and turtles. I’d spend hours out there sitting on a rock, dipping my hand into the water or peering into the deepest parts to day dream. And then thinking about the summer we spent in Nova Scotia by the ocean and all of the sea creatures we got to know there.”
Julie is a Cree-Métis artist based in British Columbia, and the first indigenous artist to create a Children’s Book Week poster.
Carl Lennertz, Every Child a Reader’s executive director said “The choice of Julie Flett for the 2025 Children’s Book Week poster is another important milestone in our work to shine a light on a vastly under-recognized world of incredibly creative people.”
Want to receive free copies of this amazing poster? Sign up to participate in Children’s Book Week this spring and you will get two posters delivered to your library, school, bookstore, or home.
