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I was born in 1957 and live in Brisbane, Australia. I studied fine art and worked in the public service for many years before teaching myself graphic design and taking up freelance illustration in 1987.

My first major illustration commissions were book covers for young adult novels for University of Queensland Press, and I have since illustrated scores of book covers for many publishers and have illustrated a large number of educational and trade children’s picture books. Among these are Auntie Mary’s Dead Goat by Margaret Card, Way Home by Libby Hathorn, Running Away From Home by Nigel Gray, Tracks, Lucy’s Bay and The Rainbow by Gary Crew, and more.

In 1995 I was the first Australian illustrator to win the prestigious UK Kate Greenaway Medal for my illustrations in Way Home, which also won a Parents’ Choice award in the USA and was shortlisted for the ABPA(Australia) book design awards.

My first wordless picture book, The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard was shortlisted for the CBCA(Australia) Book of the Year: Younger Readers award and was included on the NY Times Best Books of the Year list in 2004. The companion book, Midsummer Knight was published in 2006. The third in the series, The Hero of Little Street was published in May 2009. I am working on the fourth book in the series as well as developing other books and working on numerous different illustration projects.

I was born in 1957 and live in Brisbane, Australia. I studied fine art and worked in the public service for many years before teaching myself graphic design and taking up freelance illustration in 1987. My first major illustration commissions were book covers for young adult novels for University of Queensland Press, and I have since illustrated scores of book covers for many publishers and hav... More