Sherryl Clark lives in Melbourne, Australia, and teaches creative writing at Victoria University. Her first children's book was The Too-Tight Tutu, published in 1997, and since then she has written more than 30 books for all ages. Her verse novel Farm Kid won the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Award for children's books. Her website is at http://www.sherrylclark.com and she has a poetry site at http://www.poetry4kids.net