Shelly grew up in a tiny English village where she was surrounded
by animals, the occasional pixie fairy and her best friend Cracker,
a feisty palomino pony. She was the middle child of three, but also
had eleven foster siblings (not all at the same time!). Shelly
studied teaching and biology at university in Birmingham and moved
to Australia in 2002, where she has since married an Aussie with
two beautiful kids and added another two to the brood. She plays
with words all week long and loves that she can call it 'work'.
Katherine is the critically acclaimed children's author and
illustrator of Little Wing and the Squish Rabbit series. Her
picture books have been shortlisted for the Crichton Award, named
Notable Books in the Early Childhood category of the CBCA Book of
the Year Awards and shortlisted for the Speech Pathology Book of
the Year Awards. She has also had many short stories published in
magazines and anthologies. In another life, Katherine worked for
many years as a paediatric occupational therapist, specialising as
a children's counsellor, and she also studied graphic design. She
grew up by the beach in North Queensland and currently divides her
time between Brisbane (Australia) and Ottawa (Canada).
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