Fair Day Fun (Amira Swift #2) by Sarah Ayoub, illustrated by Niña Nill

Title: Fair Day Fun (Amira Swift #2)

Author: Sarah Ayoub, illustrated by Niña Nill

Genre: Contemporary

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 28^th July 2026

Format: Paperback

Pages: 128

Price:  $15.99

Synopsis: Amira Swift is a chatty, energetic 7-year-old who loves to dance. A series celebrating friendship, family and Lebanese-Australian culture with highly appealing stories for all to enjoy.

Amira Swift has a problem! All of her friends are bringing special foods that represent their cultures to sell and raise money at the school fair, but Amira comes from two cultures and doesn’t know what to take. Both her grandmothers want to share their special family recipes with her. Whatever will Amira do?

A fun series about dance, friendship and family from bestselling author, Sarah Ayoub, with adorable artwork by Niña Nill.

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Amira Swift’s school is going to raise funds for a new covered outdoor learning area, and they’re going to hold a fun fair. There’ll be all kinds of stalls, and Amira and her class are keen to have food stalls celebrating their diverse cultures. Even Evie, who is mixed race like Amira, knows what she is going to make immediately. Yet Amira feels caught between her Palestinian culture and Australian culture. She wants to please everyone, and likes what both of her grandmothers show her to make.

Poor Amira! She’s so loves embracing both parts of her, and everything about both cultures and families because they are what they make her who she is. And everyone wants to help, but she thinks she can only make one thing, or do one thing because that’s what everyone else is doing. Of course, there are no rules about that, are there?

So let’s see how Amira learns she can celebrate both cultures at the same time. It’s important that we have characters like this for all readers, because there are lots of people who have multicultural families and we love in a multicultural world. Books like this reassure children that loving every part of yourself and your background is important. That everything and everyone in your family, from food to culture, to language and food makes you who you are. Every aspect of culture comes together for us all and creates a sense of being in this world.

This is the second book in this new, diverse series that shows how one young girl navigates school, family, friends and identity, highlighting how these challenges can be for some people in today’s world. It reminds us that we all have challenges as well, that everyone has something about themselves that they can celebrate and embrace, and in today’s world, I love seeing this as a reader.

I love seeing diverse books and it would be awesome if we saw diverse books everywhere and in all sorts of ways of all ages. Sometimes it feels like we really push this with kids and young adult books, but I would love to see it more everywhere. It may be in genres I don’t read, though. But it does need to be in more genres I thin, and like this series, in positive ways that celebrate the diversity, that empower voices and that show people the reality of identities like Amira’s.

I think this is going to be a gorgeous series about family, friends and culture, things that will be important to everyone throughout their lives. It’s a delightful story this time that shows how to overcome the challenges of making a very tough decision (for a six or seven-year-old) and wanting to please everyone in a very loving family.

I adored this book and being invited into Amira’s world and I think younger readers will love it as well.