Chris Cheng has written articles, songs, teacher resource packs and many books both fiction and non fiction, including the Eyespy series: Rainforest Animals, Party Animals, Endangered Animals and Night Creatures as well as the Ecosystems of Australia series: Rainforests and Alpine Regions. Chris’ picture book One child, illustrated by Steven Woolman won the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Chris’ recent publications include New Gold Mountain and The Melting Pot in Scholastic’s My Australia Story series, Seams of Gold (National Museum of Australia), Fair Dinkum Pets (Pluto Press) as well as 30 Amazing Australian Animals and 60 Classic Australian Poems (Random House), He has also written the libretto for the Children’s musical Pa’s Christmas Star. His forthcoming publications include Night Noises (Random House) and Pythons (Walker Books). He is currently working on a number of writing projects including a junior fiction novel. Chris was national ambassador for the Federal Government’s National Literacy and Numeracy Week initiative from 2004 and 2008 and is Co Regional Advisor for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. He is a regular presenter in schools, conferences and festivals both here and abroad. In 2009 Chris was the recipient of the Lady Cutler Award for services to children’s literature.