Auteur: Juliet Williams

Elizabeth Botté works long hours in a lofty Melbourne studio but spends far too much time gazing out her window at the birds and the trees.The illustrator of many titles including Lost in the Rain, Sorrow, Murder Weekend, The Touché series, The Right Team, Racing the Tide and Gone! She was the Extensive Reading Foundation awards finalist in 2008 for River of Dreams.Also a painter, consistently selling artwork over the years and exhibiting in many cafés and galleries, just recently at the Ballarat Gallery of fine Art.The illustrations for The Giggle Gum Tree were inspired by the style of sweet and luscious images in 1950s children”s books. Books bought on sale for 99c when she was a little girl during the 1970s remain precious favourites in her collection today.