The Little Dragon

Mem Fox has written over 25 books for adults and children including Possum Magic which has sold over two million copies and is the bestselling picture book ever in Australia. Mem has been presented with many awards including an AM in the 1993 Australia Day Honours for services to the cultural life of Australia; an SA Great Award for Literature in 2001; the Prime Minister’s Centenary Medal in 2003; and was shortlisted for the Australian of the Year in 2004. She worked as an Associate Professor of Literacy Studies in the School of Education at Flinders University, South Australia for twenty-four years and is now an international literacy consultant. Her latest picture book Where is the Green Sheep? with illustrations by Judy Horacek, will be published in May.Mem Fox was born in Melbourne in 1946. At six months she went with her parents to Africa where she grew up on a mission on Zimbabwe. Her father’s name – Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge – is also the title of her second book, while Miss Nancy, in the same book, is her mother.

Roland Harvey is one of Australia’s best-loved illustrators. In 1978, he established Roland Harvey Studios and began designing and producing greeting cards, posters and stationery with a distinctly Australian flavour. Ventures into publishing quickly followed. Some of his best-loved books include My Place in Space (with Joe Levine), Burke and Wills, The First Fleet, Sick As (with Gael Jennings) and The New Roland Harvey Christmas book. His recent books include the best-selling At the Beach and In the Bush and his brilliant illustrations are also a feature of It’s True! Burke & Wills Forgot the Frying Pan by David Greagg and the Bonnie & Sam series – The Horses and Ponies of Currawong Creek, in collaboration with Alison Lester.