Anna Branford was born in the Isle of Man and spent her early
childhood in Sudan and Papua New Guinea before moving to Australia.
Creative writing was her favourite subject at school and she wrote
stories in all these different countries. Anna is a doll maker and
a lecturer in Sociology and Children's Literature at Victoria
University. Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot was her first
published work for Walker Books Australia and was Honour Book in
the 2011 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the
Year Awards, Younger Readers category. In 2013, Violet Mackerel’s
Personal Space won the Young Readers/Picture Book Award category of
the Australian Family Therapists’ Award and was short-listed for
the 2013 Children’s Peace Literature Awards. Violet Mackerel’s
Possible Friend was short-listed for the 2014 CBCA Book of the Year
Awards, Younger Readers category.
Sarah Davis began illustrating picture books in 2008, and is now
ruined for any other career. She has an honours degree in
literature, and her love of language and narrative underpins her
illustration work. As a self-taught artist, she is constantly
experimenting with new ways to tell stories visually. Sarah has
illustrated more than 37 books and been short-listed for 30 major
awards in Australia and New Zealand. Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant
Plot was Honour Book in the Children’s Book Council of Australia,
Book of the Year Awards in the Younger Readers category in 2011 and
Violet Mackerel’s Possible Friend was short-listed in the
Children’s Book Council Australia Book of the Year Awards, Younger
Readers category in 2014. Sarah is an ambassador for Room to Read,
and the Illustrator Coordinator for the Society of Children's Book
Writers and Illustrators (Australia East/NZ). Her website can be
found at www.sarah-davis.org
The Violet Mackerel series proffers themes and issues that many
young readers will connect with…these are stories about a real girl
and a real family…complete with issues that will be familiar to
many children. There is a scarcity of books for young girls that do
not involve fairies, princesses, hair twirling and lots of pink,
and the Violet Mackerel series seeks to amend this!
*Childrens Books Daily*
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