Libby Gleeson has written over 30 books for children, she is one of Australia's most prolific and most loved authors for children. Her first collaboration with Freya Blackwood was the award-winning Amy and Louis. Clancy and Millie and the Very Fine House is her first book with Little Hare Books.
Armin Greder was born May 24, 1942 in Biel, Switzerland. He attended both primary and secondary school, before accepting an apprenticeship in architectural drafting. After he completed his apprenticehsip. he began model building for architects, cartoons, graphic design, illustration. He moved to Australia in 1971. Once in Australia, he made a living doing graphic design work, cartoons, illustration, and book design. In 1978 he began teaching design and illustration at the Queensland College of Art, where he remained until 1998. In 2000, Greder moved back to Switzerland to live and work. Greder received an award for poster design from the Department of the Interior of Switzerland, in 1970. He won the Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Award; the Prime Minister's Department, Canberra, 1992 Commendation; the Australian Book Publishers' Association, 1994 and 1995; the IBBY Honours List, Switzerland, 1996; and the Ragazzi Bologna, in 2000. Greder was shortlisted for Australian picture Book of the Year in 2000; the Luchs #181, Germany, in 2002; the Australian Book Publishers' Association for best designed picture book, in 2002; and the Children's Book Council of Australia: Picture Book of the Year, 2002.
