Kate and Jol are award-winning children’s book authors. Their chapter book series Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers was selected as CBCA Honour Book of the Year in 2017. When they’re not writing letters for Alice and Jimmy, they write picture books. Their titles include Parrot Carrot (2011), Room on Our Rock (2018) and Are You My Bottom? (2018). They live in Sydney with their two sons and dream of one day owning an eggcup schngrooodle-itzu, just like Alice.
Grace West is a Melbourne-based illustrator and book designer who works under the nom de plume North South Grace West. When at school, Grace’s notebooks were covered in drawings and scribbles very similar to Alice’s! She loves drinking coffee, travelling and, most of all, escaping the computer to sketch in her notebook.