AuthorJanet was born and grew up in Perth Western Australia. After completing an arts degree at the University of Western Australia, she had various jobs as a research assistant and then went back to study to do a Diploma of Education at Murdoch University.Janet worked as a teacher librarian in a primary school for a couple of years before moving with her young family to Canberra. She became an education officer in the Parliament of Australia but after a couple of years moved into the committee office of the Senate. She spent the rest of her career as a researcher/writer and finally a secretariat manager in the Senate and House of Representatives committee systems.Since leaving the paid work force, Janet has been devoting herself to filling in the gaps in her education with a current focus on french, ceramics and electric guitar.Duck, Janet's first book with Little Hare, has just been published as a Little Hare Classic. IllustratorJonathan 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. He has illustrated several books for Little Hare including Holmes' debut Duck, and the best-selling Where is Bear, which he wrote as well as illustrated. 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.
