Claire Saxby was born in Melbourne, moved to Newcastle as a toddler
and to Bougainville Island in PNG when she was ten. She attended
many schools around Australia before studying in Melbourne to
become a podiatrist. For several years Claire worked in community
health while simultaneously writing for children. Her books fall
into three main categories: animals and the worlds they live in,
history, and humour. Claire's work has won several awards including
CBCA Honour Book, a NSW Premier's Literary Award, a SCBWI Crystal
Kite Award, an Environment Award for Children's Literature, an
Educational Publishing Award and the Whitley Award multiple times.
She is widely curious about just about everything and passionate
about encouraging curiosity and wonder. Claire works part-time in a
bookshop.
Jess Racklyeft creates a variety of illustrated things - picture
books, paintings, prints, pins and cards - mainly in watercolours.
She works from her Melbourne home studio with her cat and dog at
her feet, and occasionally one of her kids joins in too. Her work
often combines collage - either on paper or digitally assembled -
and lots of ink, and for every book she tries to use a new
technique or process to continue to challenge and grow, book by
book. Jess worked in publishing sales for almost a decade before
making the leap to full-time illustration work, and since then has
won several illustration accolades including two CBCA Notable
Picture Book of the Year awards. Her work can now be found in
bookshops and libraries across Australia and her days are happily
spent in a messy studio or visiting local storytimes with her two
young kids. More of her work can be found at www.jessesmess.com
'This stunning picture book follows in sensory, singing prose and
evocative mixed-media pictures the life of an iceberg through a
year of Antarctic seasons ... Solid information is rendered magical
against icy shades of sea and sky.' The Courier Mail
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