After earning a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing, Kaye Baillie followed her passion for picture books and storytelling, committed to her goal of becoming a full time children’s author and has several picture and chapter books published in her native Australia.

She is an active member and the Assistant Co-ordinator of SCBWI Victoria, Australia and is a member of the Children’s Book Council of Australia. She lives in a coastal town in Australia with her family.

Shane McG is a Melbourne-based illustrator who writes and illustrates his own picture books as well as illustrating for a wide range of books for other authors.

Shane has been drawing ever since he can remember. At school, he created his own comic strips and now he makes picture books and illustrations for people all around the world.