The Littlest Pirate

Sherryl Clark is an award-winning writer of children’s books, crime novels and poetry. She has published over seventy books for children and young adults, as well as a number of books of poetry and adult crime fiction. Clark received the NSW Premier’s Award - Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Books 2005 and the Children’s Book Council of Australia Honour Book Award in 2008. Clark has been writing crime fiction for many years; her first crime short stories were published in the Artemis Press anthologies, as well as 'The Age Summer Reading' and in high school texts. In 2018 she was shortlisted both for the CWA Debut Dagger and the NZ Ngaio Marsh Debut Novel Award for her novel, Trust Me, I'm Dead, the first in her popular Judi Westerholme series. She has since written two novels in the PI Lou Alcott series, including Woman, Missing (2024) and For All the Dead Girls (2026).

Rebecca Macauley is an award-winning narrator. She has appeared in various television series, including international hit Neighbours and Australian drama Blue Heelers. Her work includes the US feature film Darkness Falls and the children's television series Wicked Science. Rebecca has previously narrated Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta and Ursula Dubosarsky's Abyssinia.