The Elephant

Peter Carnavas is the award-winning author and illustrator of more than 20 children’s books. He won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Crystal Kite Award for his picture book Blue Whale Blues, and an Australian Book Industry Award for My Sister is a Superhero. His work has been translated into many languages across the world and he has presented at many festivals and schools around Australia. His children’s novels include Leo and Ralph; The Elephant (winner of the Children’s Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards); and My Brother Ben, which won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award and a Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year award. Carnavas lives in the Sunshine Coast hinterland with his wife and children.

Cece Peters is an Australian television and theatre actress. Her career began with playing Tiger Johnson on the Nine Network children's series Snake Tales, after which she studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, graduating in 2013. She has appeared in the Network Ten drama series The Wrong Girl and Playing for Keeps playing the roles of ‘Alice’ and ‘Paige Dunkeley’ respectively.