About The Author

Anna Battese is a bookworm, baker and children’s book maker. Once a marine biologist, she now spends her days writing stories that appeal to the kind of kid she was - eternally up to mischief, tired of being told what girls should do, in love with the ocean, and deeply suspicious of mushrooms. She lives in Melbourne with her daughter, Rosie, and labraodoodle, Scout.

About the Illustrator

Ruth-Mary Smith is an illustrator specialising in sweet and whimsical illustrations. From her home studio, she works in digital media and occasionally dabbles in watercolours. Her previous picture books include Everybody Can Dance by Kara Navolio (Brandylane Publishers) and Little Mister Gets a Sister by Samaria Lemke (Larrikin House). In July 2020, she received an award in the open illustration section of the CYA Conference, and was highly commended in 2021. She lives in a pink house with her husband, three daughters, two pups and a cockerel in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.