Nadia Wheatley began writing full-time in 1976, after completing
postgraduate work in Australian history. She writes non-fiction and
fiction, for both adults and children. Her picture book My Place,
illustrated by Donna Rawlins, was the Children’s Book Council of
Australia Book of the Year for Younger Readers in 1988 and has
recently been produced as a 26-part television series. Seven other
books by Nadia Wheatley have been honoured in the CBCA awards,
including Luke’s Way of Looking.
Matt Ottley is a multi-award-winning picture book writer and
illustrator. He spent his childhood in Papua New Guinea, and has
travelled widely throughout Australia and the world. He worked for
some years as a stockman on remote cattle stations in the
Australian outback, then went on to study fine arts and music at
college and university. He lived for three years in Britain where
he worked as an equestrian painter. His controversial book and
musical work for young adults, Requiem for a Beast was awarded the
Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Picture Book of the Year in
2008, and the Queensland Premier’s Award for Young Adult Literature
in the same year. Matt’s work has been translated into many
languages and his picture book What Faust Saw was an international
bestseller. Matt continues to work as an author, illustrator and
composer.
...this is a poignant story with strong themes of a boy who sees
the world differently and expresses it through his art…Matt Ottley
has captured the essence of the text, and through his illustrations
we can feel the emotions the boy and the teacher are feeling. Its
colour-filled covers depict Luke joyously liberated and swinging
from a tree branch amidst his abstract art.
*Buzzwords Magazine*
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