Read all four vibrant stories and share in Ruby's adventures as she discovers happiness in a time of great hardship.
Penny Matthews (Author)
Penny Matthews is a freelance writer and editor based in Adelaide.
She has written YA and junior novels, chapter books for beginning
readers, and picture books for all age groups. Her picture books
include Pudding and Chips (a CBCA Notable Book in 2005), Little Red
Bear (shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in
2004) and A Year On Our Farm, which was the CBCA's 2003 Book of the
Year (Early Childhood) and a CBCA Honour Book in the Picture Book
of the Year category. In 2010 Something About Water was joint
winner of the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's
Literature. A Girl Like Me, her first young adult novel, was also a
2010 CBCA Notable Book and won the Sisters in Crime's 2011 Davitt
Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
Lucia Masciullo grew up in Livorno, Tuscany. She moved to Australia
in 2007 and since then she has been happily working as an
illustrator. She has illustrated more than 30 books, among which
are the CBCA Honour Book and Prime Minister Award short-listed Come
Down, Cat! by Sonya Hartnett, as well as the Our Australian Girl
series, Meet Katie at the Beach by Rebecca Johnson in the Aussie
Kids series, and An A to Z of Dreaming Differently by Tracey Dembo.
She now lives on the Gold Coast.
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