Sherryl Clark's first children's book was The Too-Tight Tutu which was published in the Aussie Bites series in 1997. Since then she has published almost 30 children's books, including Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) and Motormouth. Sherryl is also the author of the Rose books in the Our Australian Girl series. She has had two collections of poetry for adults published - Edge (1990) and Thicker Than Water (1999), and is a co-editor of Poetrix magazine. Tom Jellett has illustrated a number of books for children, including a book about dads called My Dad Thinks He's Funny and a couple of books about a teddy bear called Ted Goes Wild and Ted Gets Lost.