Marmaduke Duck and the Marmalade Jam

Juliette MacIver has spent the past nine years as a full-time mother, which she says “is a lovely thing indeed.”

Writing is one of her favourite things to do in her ‘time-out’. Her dream is to make a living out of writing children’s books, so she can continue to be at home with her children when they are all school age.

Sarah Davis grew up in New Zealand, wearing gumboots and falling in rivers. She moved to Sydney in 2004, and a year later began working part-time as a freelance illustrator. She instantly realised this was what she wanted to be when she grew up, and since 2009 has been illustrating full time.

She has worked with great authors, and even some famous footballers, and is lucky enough to spend her days drawing fun things like wicked pirates, crazy llamas and cowardly dogs.