Jack's Owl

Penny Matthews has worked for many years in children’s book publishing, and is now a freelance editor and writer. Her first picture book, “Moving On”, was published in 1993, and was followed by four more picture books, three chapter books and two junior novels. In 2003 “A Year on Our Farm”, illustrated by Andrew McLean, was the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year (Early Childhood) and an Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year awards. Penny is married, has two grown-up children, and lives in Adelaide.

Stephen Michael King’s hugely successful first picture book THE MAN WHO LOVED BOXES, won the Family Award for Children’s Books in 1996, and was shortlisted in the Crichton Award for Children’s Book Illustration. Stephen’s BEETLE SOUP has also been shortlisted by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Stephen works mainly with watercolours and ink. He’s also partially deaf and very handsome.