The latest from Ford Street Publishing
Jarrod Paine
Jarrod Paine is an author, teacher and licensed snake catcher from north-east Victoria. For him, writing is a passion allowing his energy and enthusiasm for education to bubble onto the page, transporting readers of all..
Katrina Fisher
Katrina Fisher is based on the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria. In her home studio, she enjoys working in traditional mediums and aims to convey a sense of emotion, playfulness, and tenderness in her illustrations...
Janice Bowles
Janice Bowles is a Sydney-based illustrator and graphic designer whose life has revolved around creating books and images for over 20 years. Besides picture books, she has illustrated magazines, graded readers and educational series for..
John Larkin
John Larkin is a multi-award-winning author. His 2012 novel The Shadow Girl won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and The Pause won the 2015 Queensland Literary Award and was short-listed for the CBCA Book of..
Jules Ober
Educated at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Jules Ober has brought her musical sensitivity into the visual world as an image-maker working between Australia & Europe across platforms as diverse as fine art printmaking, photography, film,..
Pierre-Jacques Ober
French/Australian Pierre-Jacques Ober comes from a 30-year international career as an independent producer and director in film and television. Pierre-Jacques and Jules Ober have turned their creative energy to books, using a unique method of..
Andrew McLean
Andrew McLean studied at Prahran Technical College and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He taught art to high school students before becoming a teacher of painting and drawing at Chisholm Institute in Caulfield, Victoria...
Ellie Royce
Ellie Royce is an internationally published author of books for kids: ‘The most important people in the world.’ Ellie believes in the power of books and stories to change lives for the better and reads..
Kylie Covark
Kylie is an inaugural recipient of a mentorship through Raising Literacy Australia’s Emerging Author and Illustrator Mentoring Project and is an advocate for childhood literacy. She has been awarded first prize in the CYA Conference..
Peta Baxter & Connie Hemmens
Peta Baxter and Connie Hemmens are passionate and dedicated Early Childhood Educators who teach at a kindergarten in North Queensland and have approximately 20 years’ experience educating young children. Frankie Goes to Kindergarten, published by Ford..