About the Author
Sally Murphy writes reviews for READNG TIME, the magazine of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and runs a website that reviews Australian books. PEARL VERSES THE WORLD won the 2010 Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature as well as the 2010 Australian Speech Pathology Book of the Year Award for Best Book for Language Development. She lives in Wheatbelt, a tiny town in Australia.
Heather Potter is an illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia.