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Cecily Matthews has published picture books and junior novels with Lothian, Omnibus and University of Queensland Press. She has also contributed numerous stories and poems to The School Magazine. The character of Emily is based on Cecily’s grand-daughter.

Mitch Vane is a RMIT Graphic Arts graduate and has been working as a freelance illustrator for fifteen years – five of them based in London. She lives in Melbourne with her partner who is a writer, and two children. Mitch’s work touches all areas of visual communication; cartoons for magazines, book covers, children’s book illustrations, work for promotions and packaging in advertising, editorial illustrations and posters. Her cartoons appear regularly in the Age. She also illustrated two Aussie Nibbles by Ursula Dubosarsky, The Two Gorillas and Fairy Bread.