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In another life Danny Parker has worked as a nurse, an actor and an undertaker before settling into work as a drama teacher. A chance meeting with fellow WA-based illustrator and author, Matt Ottley, lead to Danny’s first picture book Tree. Their second collaboration, Parachute, was shortlisted for CBCA’s Picture Book of the Year award and was added to the prestigious White Ravens list. Perfect, with Freya Blackwood, was a CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year Honour Book. Danny and Freya’s second book together, Molly and Mae, was a CBCA Early Childhood Book of the Year Notable Book. Freya Blackwood is an award-winning illustrator of children's books, who draws with a distinct style that is warm, perceptive and immediately recognisable. Since publishing her first picture book in 2003, she has has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal, and worked with writers such as Libby Gleeson, Margaret Wild, Jan Ormerod, Nick Bland and Danny Parker. Freya lives in Orange, New South Wales, with her daughter, Ivy.
