Jodie Wells-Slowgrove (Author)
Jodie's life has revolved around kids and their books. Working in public libraries on the weekends when she was younger, she discovered her favourite kids' authors, and those that still inspire her. She studied teacher-librarianship at university and has been a practising teacher for almost 20 years, but writing has never been far from her thoughts - teaching during the day and writing at night. She has published articles, reviews and teacher resources both on an off the web. Jodie has been the President of the Sutherland Shire Branch of The Fellowship of Australian Writers, a committee member of the Illawarra Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia and the founder and Coordinator of the Sutherland Shire Writers' Festival. She lives in Sydney's south.


Kerry Millard (Illustrator)
Kerry is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator and author, and also paints under the name of Kerry Thompson. She has illustrated more than 24 books and was author/illustrator of Quincy and Oscar and Gordon's Biscuit. The books she has illustrated include a Children's Book Council Book of the Year and an Honour Book, and she illustrated Nim's Island (L.A. Times list of best books for 2001) and Nim at Sea, which have been the basis for two movies. She is also well-loved for her illustrations in School Magazine. She has cartooned for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Law Society Journal (Law Society of NSW), Readers' Digest, Dolly magazine and many more.