Kyle Mewburn (Author) Kyle Mewburn is a multi-award-winning writer. Born and raised in Brisbane, Australia, Mewburn travelled in Europe and the Middle East before settling in New Zealand. She has written numerous children's picture books and chapter books. She won the 2005 Storylines Joy Cowley Award for the development of a picture book text; the 2007 NZ Post Best Picture Book Award and Children's Choice Award for Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!; and the 2010 NZ Post Book of the Year for Old Huhu (illustrated by Rachel Driscoll). She has since produced a memoir, Faking It- My Life in Transition (2021) and a novel, Sewing Moonlight (2024). She lives with her wife Marion in Millers Flat, Central Otago, in a house with a grass roof. Kaye Julian (Illustrator) Kaye Julian is a freelance illustrator based in Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington, New Zealand. Kaye spent her childhood poring over books in local and school libraries from long before she could read. Kaye loved to explore the beautiful artworks and learned the language of visual storytelling from the skilled artists who helped to stories to life. As Kaye grew older, she spent her time making images of her own. In 2024 Kaye won the 2024 Storylines Gavin Bishop Award with a selection of illustrations for Go Scooter Go.