Karen Foxlee is an Australian author who writes for both children and young adults. She grew up in the Australian outback mining town Mount Isa and still frequently dreams she is walking barefoot along the dry Leichhardt River. She has written many acclaimed children's books including Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy, A Most Magical Girl, the internationally successful and multi-award-winning Lenny's Book of Everything, and Dragon Skin, which was a CBCA Honour Book, winner of the Aurealis Awards and short-listed for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Indie Book Awards and the ABIA Awards. Karen's latest books are the junior fiction Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters series, illustrated by Freda Chiu. www.karenfoxlee.comFreda Chiu is an author and illustrator from Sydney, Australia. As well as illustrating children's books, her work spans comics, editorial and retail graphics. Outside her art practice, Freda lectures in Illustration at the University of Technology Sydney. Her debut picture book, A Trip to the Hospital, was short-listed for the CBCA Award for New Illustrator and the IBBY Australia Ena Noel Awards. She has most recently illustrated Karen Foxlee's junior fiction series Miss Mary-Kate Martin's Guide to Monsters and Wai Chim's picture book Last-Place Lin. www.fredachiu.com