Sherryl Clark's first children's book was The Too-Tight Tutu which was published in the Aussie Bites series in 1997.

Since then she has published almost 70 children's books, including Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!), Motormouth and Runaways.

Sherryl is also the author of the Rose books in the Our Australian Girl series and Jimmy's War in the Do You Dare series.

She has had two collections of poetry for adults published by Pariah Press Edge (1990) and Thicker Than Water (1999).

Sherryl teaches fiction and poetry writing in the Diploma of Arts Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria University, and is currently undertaking a PhD.

Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany, among smells of saltiness and rosemary. She always loved painting and after graduating in Biology she decided to pursue her dream career as an artist.

In 2006 she moved to Brisbane and since then has been happily working as a fine art painter and freelance illustrator. She has recently illustrated Sonya Hartnett's The Boy and Toy.