Frances Watts has worked as a bookseller, editor and author. Her first book for children, Kisses for Daddy, illustrated by David Legge, was shortlisted in the 2006 Children's Book Council Picture Book of the Year Awards. Her second project with David Legge, Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books was the Eve Pownall award winner in this year's CBC Awards. Frances lives in Sydney's inner west. Judy Watson is the talented illustrator of the Extraordinary Ernie and Marvellous Maud series (written by Frances Watts) and several books in the Aussie Bites series. Judy lives in a seaside town in Victoria, with her husband and two children.