DR Frank's Monster

Nigel Gray has published over seventy books most for children and they have been translated into twenty-four languages. He has won The Dickens Fellowship Award, and The Irish Post Award for Literature. His books for children include A Balloon for Grandad and A Country Far Away. Nigel was born in England, but now lives in a timber and iron pole house in Kalamunda, Western Australia, with his wife and their dog.

Craig Smith has an excellent track record as a children’s book illustrator. He first teamed with Gary Crew to provide a remarkable interpretation of Troy Thompson’s Excellent Peotry Book and Troy Thompson’s Radical Prose Folio. His more recent awards include CBC Honour Book: Younger Readers (1999) for Bob the Builder and the Elves, Shortlisted CBC Book of the Year: Younger Readers for Billy the Punk (1996) and Shortlisted CBC for Not Again, Dad by Thurley Fowler (1995). Craig has also recently illustrated the Paul Jennings titles: The Cabbage Patch Fib and The Cabbage Patch War, and Sniffy the Sniffer Dog (Lothian Books, 2003) in Lothian’s Start-Ups series.