Pamela Allen is the writer and illustrator of numerous hugely popular children’s picture books including Who Sank the Boat? and the Mr McGee series. She has won countless awards, and was the first illustrator to win the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award in three consecutive years. In 2004 she was awarded the Margaret Mahey meda and received a Queen’s Honour for services to children’s literature. Her latest picture books include Is Your Grandmother a Goanna? That Daft Dog Danny and The Toymaker and the Bird.