In another life Danny Parker has worked as a nurse, an actor and an undertaker before settling into work as a drama teacher. A chance meeting with fellow WA-based illustrator and author, Matt Ottley, lead to Danny’s first picture book Tree. Their second collaboration, Parachute, was shortlisted for CBCA’s Picture Book of the Year award and was added to the prestigious White Ravens list.
Freya Blackwood was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Orange in NSW, Australia where she now lives with her daughter Ivy. After graduating from UTS in Visual Communications, Freya worked in the film industry as a production assistant, runner and effects technician. She began illustrating picture books in 2002 and has since been shortlisted for, and won many prestigious awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2010.
