Author

Gary Crew

Gary Crew is an award-winning and prolific writer for young people. His recent books include the Extinct Series: I Saw Nothing, the Extinction of the Thylacine; I Said Nothing, the Extinction of the Paradise Parrot; and I Did Nothing, the Extinction of the Gastric-brooding Frog, all illustrated by Mark Wilson; In the Wake of the Mary Celeste, illustrated by Robert Ingpen; Me and My Dog, The Mystery of Eilean Mor, The Stolen Children of Quentaris, the Sam Silverthorne trilogy and The Truth About Emma.

Matt Ottley was born in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, moving to Australia when he was eleven. After almost failing high school in Sydney, he lived the itinerant life of a stockman for some years on cattle stations in Queensland, before returning to Sydney to study fine arts and music. He is now one of Australia s most popular children s author/illustrators and has been published in several different languages around the world. His most recent work is the graphic novel published by Lothian, Requiem for a Beast, which won Picture Book of the Year in the 2008 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. Matt also works as a composer and flamenco guitarist.