Sue Whiting is a children’s and young adult author and
editor who lives and works in a small coastal village south of
Sydney. She has written numerous books in a variety of genres:
fiction and nonfiction, picture books through to YA, including the
best-selling Missing, and the CBCA 2019 Notable Book, Beware the
Deep Dark Forest. Sue is passionate about storytelling and the
power of story to transform lives, and has been fascinated with
picture books since her early years as a primary school
teacher.
Cate James moved to Australia in 2015 from Scotland where
she studied Printmaking and Illustration at Edinburgh College of
Art. She is now living in the Northern Beaches of Sydney with her
husband and her sausage dog Sebastian. Cate is a full-time
illustrator, and when she’s not drawing for children's books, she
likes to find different ways to be an artist. She volunteers with
ArtEx at the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick where she also
exhibits her work, and teaches art to primary-aged children and
printmaking to adults in various locations around Sydney. Cate is
also a printmaking technician at UNSW. She has illustrated over 25
books for publishers in the UK, US and Australia and was awarded
the Penguin Random House Illustrators’ Showcase Award in 2019.
Sue Whiting introduces us to the world of the 'spiny anteater' in a
heart-warming story between a child and her grandmother.
*CBCA Reading Time*
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