Anna Pignataro has illustrat over twenty books for children, two of which she has also written. She has won the Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration, been shortlisted for the CBCA and YABBA awards, and many of her CBCA Notable Australian children's Books. Anna lives in Melbourne and one day, on her way home, she stumbled on a Place called Apple street . That's where she met the Apple street friends and every now and then she goes back to Apple Street to visit them.