A Fairy Collection

About the Author

Edwina Wyatt is an award-winning Australian children’s author. Her debut junior fiction novel The Secrets of Magnolia Moon was awarded the CBCA Honour Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and shortlisted for the Readings’ Children’s Book Prize. She has received three CBCA Notables for her picture books, and her novel Tish received a Gold Standard Selection Award from the Junior Library Guild USA. Her book Cub & Brown was named in The Guardian’s Best Australian Children’s Books of 2023. Her latest books are the Junkyard Fairies series, illustrated by the acclaimed artist, Lauren O’Hara. Edwina has a passion for horses, paddocks and pine trees, and is an “aspiring” vegetable gardener and pianist (although she cannot read music …)

Lauren O’Hara is an illustrator from the north of England. As a child she loved reading fairy tales, painting insects and listening to her grandmother’s stories. She studied art and illustration at Kingston University and then designed window displays and props for films. Lauren’s career as an illustrator began when she and her sister, Natalia, worked together on a picture book, Hortense and the Shadow. This was published in 2017 and followed in 2018 by The Bandit Queen. Lauren lives in a converted church in Dublin, Ireland with her partner, her son, their cat Ida and assorted ghosts. She is the illustrator of Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl.