Fleur van der Weel is a prize-winning author & illustrator as well as a painter, decorator, and graphic designer. A graduate of the Utrecht School of Art, she began her career decorating children's furniture before taking the plunge and sending her first project to a publisher. She enjoys radically changing her techniques from one book to the next, exploring screen printing, wood engraving, monotype, and collage.David Colmer is an Australian writer and translator who lives in Amsterdam. He has translated a wide range of books into English, mostly from Dutch, and has won many international awards for his work. Recent translations for children include Marije Tolman's Quill the Forest Keeper, Bette Westera and Mies van Hout's Fast Cheetah, Slow Tortoise and Leo Timmers's Kiki and Me.