Allison Rushby (Author) Allison Rushby is a children's, YA and fiction author with more than 20 books to her name. Her middle-grade books The Turnkey and The Mulberry Tree (Walker / Candlewick) are spooky tales aimed at intermediate readers. Allison has three new middle-grade books publishing with Walker Books in 2022, and has previously been published by Allen and Unwin Australia, Harper Collins, St Martins and others. Allison is an admin of the popular parent Facebook group 'Your Kid's Next Read' with Megan Daley and Allison Tait. Karen Blair (Illustrator) When Karen Blair was young, she wished she could see the fairies in the garden and would sometimes leave baked beans out for them. She also wished that she could draw all day and now the wish has come true! Karen loves to illustrate characters who are young, old and in between. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with her husband, two children and a small dog called Dobby, who thinks he's a cat. To learn more about Karen, visit karenblair.com.au.