Terry Denton

Terry designed and created many characters in the following books. Overall he has illustrated more than 100 books. Terry spends part of each year talking to school kids and doing workshops, when he can be coaxed away from his studio in bayside Melbourne.

• Sprung!Sprung Again!
• You’re Dropped!
  
• Dacked!
• Flushed!
  
• That Aussie Christmas Book
  

Visit Terry’s website for more info:
http://www.terrydenton.com/

Emma Quay

Emma Quay (pronounced “kway”) grew up in a village near Cambridge, England and has wanted to illustrate children’s books for as long as she can remember. She has drawn voraciously since childhood, and eventually graduated with an Honours degree in Graphic Design from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, specialising in illustration and printmaking.

Shortly after graduation, a selection of Emma’s illustrative work was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London for its permanent collection of prints and drawings. She continued to exhibit her monoprints and charcoal sketches, travelling to Morocco, India, Nepal and Bhutan to sketch, whilst also working as a freelance illustrator.

• Cheeky Monkey
• Good Night Me

Visit Emmas’ website for more information
http://www.emmaquay.com/

Jonathan Bentley

As a little boy Jonathan Bentley liked football and drawing. When he was about eight years old he realised he wasn’t going to be good enough to play football for Leeds United, so he concentrated on drawing instead. When he left school he studied at Brighton Polytechnic. Jonathan worked as a builder’s labourer and kitchen hand for many years before he became a full-time illustrator, and he worked in London and Sydney before moving to Brisbane, Australia.

Jonathan has been an Editorial Illustrator at the Courier Mail newspaper for ten years, and has illustrated books for Margaret Wild, The Wiggles and Andrew Daddo.

Jonathan likes to work with a range of materials including acrylics, oils, and line and watercolour, and he looks forward to the day when he has a big barn-like studio somewhere in the countryside.

Michelle Pike
Once upon a time, there was an artist with a story…Australian artist and book illustrator Michelle Pike, brings to us a unique and wonderful recipe of Australian colour, culture, bad habits and humour.

Originating from Western Australia, Michelle attributes her understanding of the Australian landscape and its’ vivid colours, to her many childhood trips into the outback. Described as having “a bizarre mix of practical skills, creative hunger and heaps of energy” Michelle’s self-confessed thirst for life and everything that makes her laugh have enabled her to achieve a great deal.

Michelle believes that humour is an understated element of cultural expression.  As such, in true anthropomorphic style, she captures the Australian sense of humour perfectly through the whimsical integration of Australian fauna and flora into her works.

She is the artist with a story and as such, Michelle’s illustration work is in high demand by authors and leading publishing companies around Australia. Drawing from both her own childhood experiences and that currently being played out by her two sons, Michelle’s work is an endless source of entertainment and amusement to all ages.

Michelle is currently studying a BA in Communications and Design and her artistic achievements are appreciated by domestic and international clients alike.

Visit Michell’s’ website for more information
http://www.michellepike.com.au/

Bruce Whatley

Bruce was born in South Australia, but after ten years his family moved to the UK where he studied visual communications and later worked in the advertising industry. He returned to Australia with his family in the 1980′s, and later spent some years working in the US. Bruce now works in a NSW country town as a full time writer and illustrator.

In his school presentations, Bruce is keen to show how text and pictures work together to tell a story. He illustrates his talks with his own drawings, talks about how a picture book is made and shows students how they can use their ideas to compose their own books.

Judith Rossell

Judith Rossell is a full-time Melbourne-based illustrator. Her titles include the Children′s Book Council of Australia′s 1999 shortlisted title How to Guzzle Your Garden (by Jackie French), the popular Blackbread the Pirate (by Garth Nix), The Lost Treasure of the Green Iguana and I Spy With Inspector Stilton. And her latest with Andrew Daddo, Skoz the Dog.