Once Upon a Wickedness

About the Author

Fleur Beale (Author) Fleur Beale is the author of many award-winning books for children and young adults - she has now had more than 40 books published in New Zealand, as well as being published in the United States and England. Beale is the only writer to have twice won the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book:with Slide the Corner in2007, and I Am Not Esther in 2009. She won the Esther Glen Award for distinguished contribution to children's literature for Juno of Taris in the 2009 LIANZA Children's Book Awards. Fierce September won the YA category in the 2011 NZ Post Children's Book Awards and the LIANZA Young Adult Award in 2011. In 2012 she won the Margaret Mahy Medal for her outstanding contribution to children's writing. In 1999, Beale was Dunedin College of Education's Writer in Residence. A former high-school teacher, Beale lives in Wellington. Lily Uivel (Illustrator) After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lily found herself doing lots of odd jobs. But since before she can remember, she loved telling stories more than anything else. She would spend all of her spare time sketching and studying illustration. When Lily and her partner Rory left their life in London and came home to New Zealand, Lily decided to give freelance illustration a chance. She is now the illustrator of many children's books, and the author of Big Bang Bread, the first picture book which she has both written and illustrated. Lily lives in Eastbourne with her assistant, She-Ra the dog, Rory and their little boy Reed.