ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Janet A. Holmes

JANET A. HOLMES was born and grew up in Perth, Western Australia. After completing an Arts Degree at the University of Western Australia, Janet worked as a research assistant for various organisations and academics. Following a Graduate Diploma in Education, she worked as a teacher-librarian in a primary school and moved to Canberra. Janet was a rare gem found amongst thousands of book submissions! Little Hare Books published her

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Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton AM ran Margaret Hamilton Books for almost ten years, an internationally successful company with a reputation for high quality children’s books, which she began with her husband Max. Her Order of Australia Medal (2008) was ‘for service to the arts through the promotion of children’s literature and literacy and through support for authors and illustrators’. Margaret’s passion and recognition for wider

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Frances Watts

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David Bedford

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

Jonathan Bentley

Jonathan Bentley is an award-winning illustrator and author of over fifty picture books. He has worked with some of Australia’s most loved authors including, Margaret Wild, Shaun Micallef, Patrick Guest, Lian Tanner and Andrew Daddo. His books are enjoyed by children all around the world.

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Anna Pignataro

Anna Pignataro has created more than sixty books for children. Her first picture book won the Crichton Award for illustration, and her books have continued to receive award recognition, including multiple commendations from The Children’s Book Council of Australia. Anna’s books have also featured on children’s television programs such as Play School. Many of her picture books have had significant

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Judith Rossell

Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire and Wakestone Hall). Judith has written fifteen books and illustrated more than eighty, including the recent picture books Bogtrotter and Pink!, both written by Margaret Wild. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated

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David Legge

David Legge has been a professional illustrator since 1986. He has produced over seventy book jackets, illustrations for packaging and advertising and is a regular illustrator for The School Magazine. After emigrating to Australia from England in 1989 David developed a love of children’s picture books which is now his favorite field of illustration.

David strives to instill warmth and humour into his picture books which he

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Ann James

Ann James is an award-winning children’s book illustrator who has collaborated with many authors and publishers to illustrate over 60 books. She works in a variety of mediums including pen and ink, watercolour, soft pastels, charcoal and collage. With her partner Ann Haddon, Ann established Books Illustrated in 1988, a gallery focused on promoting Australian picture books and their creators. Together they were awarded the 2000 Pixie