JENNI OVEREND is the author of four previous books including Hello Baby, illustrated by Julie Vivas, which was short-listed for the 2000 Children's Book Council of Australia awards and selected for the White Ravens collection for the International Youth Library in Munich. Her first book, Princess Grandma, won Australia's Multicultural Picture Book of the Year in 1995. Jenni lives in a small mountain township with her husband and four children. She teaches at a little school of eleven children and runs writing classes for adults in the Yarra Valley.