The Great Barrier Reef is a special place, teeming with life. It provides animals with food and shelter. Count from one to ten in this gentle, rhyming bedtime book, while learning about some of the Reef's most threatened creatures. AUTHOR: Kellie Byrnes is a children's author and full-time freelance writer with a degree in literature. Her first picture book, Cloud Conductor, came out in 2018, and five more of her picture books, plus a junior-fiction novel, will be published by 2022. Kellie was an Artist-in-Residence at the Crows Nest on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, for four months in 2019, and a mentee in the US-based 'Writing with the Stars' program in 2018. She reviews children's books and blogs about kidlit, and as a freelance writer has created a variety of content for companies around the world. www.kelliebyrnes.com Rachel Tribout is an illustrator and designer born in France, where she studied visual communication and illustration. She has illustrated several picture books, works with businesses and non-profits, and collaborates with design studios on commercial and cultural projects. In her spare time, she has created two picture books that explore the monsters of the Tasmanian landscape: The Monsters of Tasmania, 2014, and The Journey of Admiral Bolognaise, 2016. She is currently working on the third instalment. www.racheltribout.com
