Ellie Royce was born in Adelaide, South Australia and she's been telling stories ever since.Although she spent over ten years crafting nonfiction articles for magazines, she finally realised her real love was writing the stories for young people that blossom in her imagination. Ellie is now an award winning, internationally published author of six books, five of which are for children.Two middle grade novels the Letterbooks were published in 2008 with ABC Books, and in 2010 were published in Norway and Sweden.Her first picture book Lucas and Jack was published in 2014 with Working Title Press.Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero Ellie's second picture book came out in April 2020 with New York publishers POW!Kids.Frizzle and Me is Ellie's newest picture book, out in June 2021 with Ford Street Publishing.Ellie truly believes in the magic and power of stories to change the world for the better, so she writes and reads them all the time (quite often when she should be doing other things!). Recently she's also added podcasting and indie publishing under the imprint We Are All Made of Stories to her life, because they're such a great medium for sharing even more stories. Ellie lives on Gumbanynggir Country (Coffs Harbour) in Northern New South Wales Australia and plans to keep writing, sharing and publishing visionary stories for kids and young adults forever.Website: https: //www.weareallmadeofstories.com/Instagram: https: //www.instagram.com/ellieroycekidlitauthor/ Facebook: https: //www.facebook.com/ellie.royce.18 Mardi Davies has extensive experience in the graphic design, illustration and animation industries.Mardi has built up a body of work in both design and illustration including working with online education platforms, full colour illustrated journals, cover illustrations and design for chapter and middle grade fiction, (including work for Storytorch Press) and author/illustrator of 'Found You!' Picture book (published by Ford St Publishing). Mardi's love of the ocean and creatures within, continues to inspire her personal illustration brand mixing traditional watercolour and goauche with digital illustration and composition.www.floandebbdesign.com website@floandebbdesign on instagram