Kate Ryan

Kate Ryan lives in North Melbourne with her partner and three young children. She has worked at various publishing houses as an editor, and now works as a freelance writer and editor. Kate has written three stories about Belvedere, Belvedere in the City, Belvedere Dreaming and Belvedere is Beached, and is currently working on a novel for adults.

Sally Rippin was born in Darwin but spent most of her childhood in South-East Asia. As an adult she spent three years in China studying traditional Chinese painting before returning to Australia. Her first two picture books were Speak Chinese, Fang Fang! and Fang Fang's Chinese New Year which won the CBC Crichton Award in 1997. Her previous Lothian books are When It Is Time, What Makes Me Me and Becoming Buddha.