Paul van de Loo is a professional engineer and runs a consulting engineering firm in Adelaide Australia.
Married with three boys, he lives in the Adelaide Hills and has long been fascinated by Australian plants and animals. His habit of making up stories to tell around the campfire on outback camping holidays has now spilled over to self publishing these stories. Paul explains, “the Adelaide Hills is a great place to bring up kids, and the bush is a great place for kids to explore. But many kids don’t get the chance, so my books aim to give kids a taste of adventure in the bush.”
Hungry Sinclair was the first of Paul's books to be published with Bob the Bunyip following soon after. More stories that depict the life of animals in the Australian bush are expected to follow.
Max Fatchen was an Australian journalist and children's writer.
Fatchen spent his childhood on an Adelaide Plains farm at Angle Vale.
Max started his career in the media as a copy boy in the 1930's later becaming a journalist with The News and The Advertiser.
He began writing for children in 1966 with his first book The River Kings later made into a TV mini-series in 1991 and went on to write 20 books.
A popular columnist, journalst, poet, novelist and children's author he died on 14 October 2012 at the age of 92.
Heather believes that reading teaches children about the world around them and enables them to develop empathy by identifying with a character in a story. Heather wrote Barossa Nanna and the Lonely Chook for her grandson who lives overseas, to share with him a part of her life in the Barossa Valley, South Australia.
Heather has worked across diverse communities and business areas including Community Services Management, Regional Tourism & Hospitality, Land Management and Community based Health Care.
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