Carn the Blues

Lorraine has spent a lifetime working in education, as classroom teacher, curriculum assistant, deputy principal, and literacy consultant. She has written extensively for children and educators and is the recipient of Australian and American awards for her work in literacy. This is her fifth Footy Kids series. The series was first published in 1982.

Paul Harvey is a talented illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist who runs his own design/illustration business from his home in Richmond. His work has appeared in most of Melbourne’s newspapers and magazines from the Herald-Sun to the Footy Record. Paul has an honours in Graphic Design, 14 years in advertising and is co-author of the Ted Whitten Album and Kicking Behinds: The Cartoonist at the Footy. He is also a very slow midfielder for the Marcellin Bald Eagles Football club. Once a year Paul likes to sit around a campfire on the banks of the Murray and make up stories with his wife and three young kids.