Aleesah Darlison is a multi-published, award-winning Australian author. She has written nearly forty books for boys and girls of all ages. Her much-loved stories promote the concepts of sustainability, environmental awareness, courage, understanding, anti-bullying, love, self-belief, friendship and teamwork.

Aleesah’s book, Our Class Tiger, was joint winner of the 2015 Environment Award for Children’s Literature (Non-Fiction). Aleesah’s other series for children include the Unicorn Riders series and the Totally Twins series.

Jill Brailsford was born in England and moved to Australia in as a young girl. She studied art and design after leaving school and has been illustrating on and off in between lots of part-time jobs including café cook, flower picker and stained glass window painter.