Peter Carnavas’s career as a primary school teacher inspired him to embrace his passion for children’s literature. His picture book Blue Whale Blues won the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Crystal Kite Award, and My Sister is a Superhero won an Australian Book Industry Award. The Elephant is Peter’s first novel. He lives on Australia’s Sunshine Coast with his family.
Cece Peters is an Australian television and theatre actress. Her career began with playing Tiger Johnson on the Nine Network children's series Snake Tales, after which she studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, graduating in 2013. She has appeared in the Network Ten drama series The Wrong Girl and Playing for Keeps playing the roles of ‘Alice’ and ‘Paige Dunkeley’ respectively.