Using Stories to Inspire Imaginative Play

Megan Daley is the author of the bestselling book Raising Readers (UQP, 2019) as well as Teacher, Teacher (Affirm Press, 2023) and The Beehive (Walker Books, 2024). Megan is a Teacher Librarian and early years educator and has been awarded the Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year and the Queensland Teacher Librarian of the Year, as well as the national Dromkeen Librarian’s Award. A former national vice-president of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Megan is also a regular literary judge, a workshop presenter, the creator of the popular website Children's Books Daily and co-creator of the Your Kid's Next Read podcast.

Yvonne Mes is picturebook author and illustrator from Brisbane who writes stories for children with curious minds. Her latest books are Little Bilby's Aussie Bush Christmas, (Hachette Australia), and as an illustrator Trouble in the Hen House (Yellow Brick Books). Yvonne is a former Early Childhood professional and coordinates Brisbane based writers' group, Write Links.

She buys more books than she can read, comes up with more ideas than she can write or illustrate and has more children than she can manage. But she does try very hard, and best of all, she is NEVER bored.