Robert Favretto lives on the Mornington Peninsula where he is a primary school teacher. He enjoys writing stories that encourage children to become passionate readers. Home of the Cuckoo Clock is his first picture book.

David Eustace lives in subtropical Brisbane. He combines traditional art techniques with digital drawing to create dreamlike pictures that balance the worlds of realism and fantasy. He is inspired by mythology, surrealist art and the bedtime stories he reads to his two sons.