Donna Dwyer contacted me last year to illustrate the cover and I was stoked to hear that the main characters were budgerigars. The cover features Moo (the central character) alongside Barney, Fudge and Yukey with Plum the magpie and Horace the bat in tow. The night parrots (a species of extremely rare and elusive Australian parrot) can also be seen flying with the unlikely heroes through the branches of Magic, the tree.Read More