When Kerry Gittins took on the role of Administrator, she changed the website display to a soft green and gave us a new and elegant logo banner! The feather-quill writing a heart-shape was sourced from a website (such as HiClipart), offering free clip art for designers to use. Although previous Administrators had endeavoured to only include free-to-use images on the website, Kerry established the protocol of including a link and/or name attribution to confirm each image was free-to-use or approved-for-use on this platform.

With over three thousand historical blog posts, it wasn’t possible to check each one. So, a blitz recently took place, removing all unattributed images. This was to safeguard the website from transgressing copyright.

Before she became Administrator, Kerry had occasionally stepped in to give long-term Administrator, Jeanie Axton, a holiday break. When Jeanie left, no new Administrator had been found. Fortunately, Kerry kindly agreed to take the position short-term until this was rectified.

Thank you, Kerry, for your valuable and caring contributions to ACP!

by Celia Berrell

About Kerry Gittins

Before Kerry Gittins established The Booktree website in 2020, with its branches of, Book Reviews and the Podcast With This Book We Can, she grew its wide-spreading roots through her qualifications and careers as a Teacher Librarian, Technology Integration Specialist and Music Teacher. Not just in Australia, but around the world!

Kerry taught in Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. These experiences have given her a panoramic passion for the empowering benefits that stories, books and poems can give us, particularly when we are young. Her writing has been published in two anthologies and several issues of The School Magazine.

Kerry is a member of the Hunter Writers Centre and is Director of the Children’s Book Council of Australia NSW Branch Inc Hunter Region. In 2026 and 2027, she will be bringing her talents to task as a Judge for the Picture Book / New Illustrator category of the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. After that, she will finally get to finish those middle grade novels she’s been working on.

Kerry Gittins photo