Meet Mia by the Jetty

Janeen Brian is the author of more than 60 books for children. Her writing spans non-fiction, short fiction, scripts, poetry and verse. Her work has been shortlisted in the CBC Awards, the Wilderness Society Environment Awards and for various other awards over her 20-year career. She received the CBC Honour Book award for Where Does Thursday Go? (illustrated by Stephen Michael King).

Danny Snell grew up in Adelaide, and trained at the Central School of Art and the University of South Australia before graduating with a Bachelor of Design (Illustration) in 1992. His first major picture book Whose Tail Is That?, written by Christine Nicholls, was shortlisted the following year for the Children’s Book Council’s Crichton Award for first time children’s book illustrators. His second book, the best selling Bilby Moon written by Margaret Spurling, was nominated as a Notable Book for 2001 and shortlisted for the 2001 Kids Own Australian Literature Award (KOALA). Since then he has illustrated as well as The Long Way Home by Emily Rodda, Scary Bear by Tania Cox and Seadragon Sea, also written by Margaret Spurling. He lives in Adelaide with his partner Louise and his two daughters, Leilani and Daisy.