Deborah Kelly is the author of popular picture books including The Bouncing Ball, Jam for Nana and Dinosaur Disco. She has more picture books due out in 2016 and 2017, including the Chalk Rainbow and Me and You.

She also writes short stories for children and material for the educational market. Ruby Wishfingers is her first chapter series for children. It includes Ruby Wishfingers: Skydancer's Escape, Ruby Wishfingers: Toad-ally Magic and Ruby Wishfingers: Hide and Seek, as well as more adventures to come.

Deborah loves to visit schools, libraries and festivals to talk about writing and share her books.

Leigh Hedstrom is a freelance illustrator who lives on the Sunshine Coast with her family. She grew up in South Africa, drawing every day and dreaming that one day she might become a Disney animator. In the early 2000s, hand-drawn animation studios all around the world closed their doors, so she had to find the next best thing, which turned out to be the actual best thing - illustration. What Leigh loves about illustrating is being able to work across a bunch of different industries: publishing (books), education (workbooks, teaching aids and videos), advertising, and more recently, product development (toys). She also gets to work with amazingly talented people, like Tanya Hennessy.

The Stevie Louise books have become a favourite project, because it's not often that Leigh gets to draw the same characters many times … Stevie, Alex, Trixie, Addison, Macey, Luke and Hannah have crept into her heart and become like real people to her. Leigh enjoys the perks of a work-from-home job, such as the privacy to sing showtunes whilst working, having a cat within arms reach and eating lunch from a plate.