Sophie Beer is an award-winning illustrator/author living in Brisbane, Australia. She works primarily in children's books, having published with Penguin Random House New York, Simon and Schuster New York, Walker UK, Scholastic UK, Hardie Grant, and many more. As an illustrator, she has worked with Disney/Pixar, Google, The Sydney Opera House, and has collaborated with Myer for her own line of children's homewares. When she's not illustrating and writing, she thinks a lot about plants, animals, music, books, and equality.