You have to be ever so quiet when you come to our house. There are animals living here. Wild animals. They're sleeping now. And you couldn't wouldn't want to wake them up. Would you? AUTHOR Meredith Costain lives in inner-city Melbourne with a menagerie of pets: dogs, chooks, ducks and a very unwild cat. She is allergic to noisy houses. Her books include Rosie and the Bunyip, Musical Harriet and Doodledum Dancing a 2007 CBCA Honour Book. ILLUSTRATOR Christina Booth works from a studio in her back yard in Launceston, Tasmania. The 'No Noise' house is a lot like hers. The inspiration for the illustrations came when looking for a wayward black chook called Omlet in the dark with a torch in her pyjamas! Christina's books In the Deep Blue Sea and In the Deep Green Jungle and Purinina were notable books in the CBCA awards in 2008.