Juniper's Painting

About the Author

Catherine Bauer is a journalist and writer from South Australia. She has worked as a news and political journalist and features writer, a government media adviser, and currently works with a community services provider supporting homeless and vulnerable South Australians. Her love of writing started when she was eight years old, when she wrote and illustrated her own book. She has now written and published three children's plays and two picture books. Catherine aims for her stories to spark all or one of the following three reactions in readers: 'That's me', 'I wish that was me', or 'I'm glad that's not me.'

Jennifer Horn is a Brisbane-based illustrator and children's writer. Her fairytale debut picture book The Precious Plum was shortlisted for the 2022 Little Pink Dog's Authorstrator Prize. She illustrated the real-life-inspired picture book The Boy From The Sea and an entry in the anthology, Our Australian HeART. With a background in architecture and film, Jen draws on her experiences to create whimsical illustrations. She is a pen-and-paper sketcher, and brings the line drawings into Photoshop to colour and polish. Jen has a black cat too! She tried to coerce him to model for more of the sketches, but he's too self-conscious.