The latest from Ford Street Publishing
Hazel Edwards
Hazel has written over 200 books, but is perhaps most famous for her children’s picture book, There’s a Hippo on our Roof Eating Cake. Hazel writes fiction and fact. She has recently co-authored Trail Magic and Walking 2184 Miles on..
Chrissie Michaels
Chrissie Michaels is a tree-changer who has happily settled into a country lifestyle. Her favourite pastimes are growing enough veges for family and friends to share, and going for long strolls on the nearby beaches...
Felicity Marshall
Felicity is a children’s author and illustrator and has published three picture books: You and Me Murrawee, Sage’s Ark and The Star. Felicity grew up in the country, and was educated in Western Australia, UK and USA. She has..
David Miller
David Miller started out writing and illustrating books for his own children, having adopted a love for art from his own father who was a sculptor. Studying advertising and art, David then went on to..
Anna Pignataro
Winner of the Crichton Award for Book Illustration, Anna Pignataro has created more than 60 books for children. Her books are published internationally and translated into eleven different languages. She is also the author of..
Jo Thompson
Picture book illustrator; Create a Kids’ Book illustration tutor, mentor, assessor; designer; artist.
Kieron Pratt
Kieron Pratt is as colourful as his illustrations. He has a great sense of humour and is a ‘behind the scenes’ kind of person who would prefer to have his illustrations speak for him. Kieron..
Tania McCartney
Tania is an author of both adult non-fiction and children’s books. She is the creator of the Riley the Little Aviator series of travelogue picture books, and her latest books include Riley and the Grumpy..
Den Scheer
Den L. Scheer grew up on an isolated farm near Grass Patch, WA, before moving to Northam when 8 years old. Graduating from St Hildas ASG in 2010, she now studies Fine Art at Curtin University. Her works..
Michelle Heeter
Michelle has a Master’s degree in English, and has been a technical writer and a copywriter throughout her career. She has also sold many short stories to women’s magazines, including That’s Life‘s ‘Fast Fiction’ and Family Circle...
Serena Geddes
Spending most of her childhood watching Saturday morning cartoons, Serena was destined to spend her adult days hunched over a light box, scribbling illustrations for picture books and working for a mouse in trousers. She..
Susanne Gervay
Susanne Gervay’s books include the best selling rite-of-passage book I Am Jack, adapted into a play by Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People. Super Jack makes blended families okay while Always Jack, which carries the Cancer Council’s yellow daffodil,..
Patricia Bernard
Patricia left Australia when she was nineteen. During the next twenty years she sailed up the Nile, worked in Berlin during the closing of the Wall, met Mohammed V of Morocco in the Sahara Desert,..
Pamela Rushby
Pamela Rushby was born in Queensland more years ago than she cares to divulge. She has worked in advertising, as a pre-school teacher, and as a producer of educational television, audio and multimedia. She now..