Author:Karen McKinley worked as a reporter for Channel Nine’s Gold Coast News, the Gold Coast Bulletin and was the communications director for The Punch Group PR agency and publicist for the Somerset Celebration of Literature (Somerset Storyfest). Karen has two teenage daughters and lives between the Gold Coast and a farm at Maleny in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Her favourite flower is a gardenia and as a kid she would often be found reading Enid Blyton books, roller skating or making up dances with her school friends.Illustrator:Francesca Quatraro have been illustrating for about 20 years. She loves stories and likes to tell them. She has illustrated 20 children’s books and for the past 5 years she has been collaborating with a French publishing house to make postcards. Apart from illustrating for the publishing industry, she also works for private clients. She absolutely loves teaching adults the art of drawing.
