Gary Crew is an award-winning and prolific Australian writer. His recent books include the Extinct Series: I Saw Nothing, the Extinction of the Thylacine; I Said Nothing, the Extinction of the Paradise Parrot; and I Did Nothing, the Extinction of the Gastric-brooding Frog, all illustrated by Mark Wilson; In the Wake of the Mary Celeste, illustrated by Robert Ingpen; Me and My Dog and Stolen Children of Quentaris.