ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my editor, Jane Pearson. You are simply wonderful.

Thank you to every single dynamo on the Text Publishing team.

Thank you to designer Imogen Stubbs and artist Valentina Toro for creating a cover that I can’t stop looking at.

Thank you to reader Mathilda Lee for your clever and encouraging notes and to author Rebecca Lim for your advice on one passage.

Thank you to the students and staff at Glenferrie Primary School for those happy years.

Thank you to Tamsyn Cook for being a library ally. I had so much fun with you.

Thank you to librarians everywhere. All libraries need (at least) one of you.

Thank you to writers Bronte Coates, Nina Kenwood and Nova Weetman. Honestly, I don’t know what I would do without you.

And thank you to Aaron, Madeleine, Jonah, Charlie, Tinsel and Harry: my lockdown crew.