Dinosaur Disco

Deborah Kelly grew up in New Zealand and Australia but has also lived in Scotland and Japan. She studied Marine Biology at James Cook University in Queensland but has always been passionate about art, film, books and writing. She wrote her first series of picture books (which she still has) when she was seven. Deborah now writes stories for children of all ages as well as Haiku poetry which has been published in various forms. She lives with her husband and two children in New South Wales, Australia.

Daron Parton was born in the UK, got married to a Kiwi and moved to New Zealand in 1995. He studied at Central St Martins in London and graduated with a BA hons. He has been working as an illustrator since 1990 with a few other jobs slotted in. He has worked for GQ, Esquire, New Statesman, The Age, Bantam, Scholastic NZ, Penguin Australia, Pfizer, Glaxo Smith Klein, Vodafone, Telecom NZ, Z fuel and plenty more. He is also an illustration tutor at Auckland Uni of Tech. Daron has two sons, Ollie 10 and Rhys 8.