Wendy Binks

Author, Illustrator (Australia)

Wendy Binks has drawn and painted all her life, and has two galleries in Fremantle, Western Australia. Her work features brightly coloured, quirky Australian animals, especially emus. Wendy has created three books so far about Stripey the emu chick, which she wrote, illustrated and independently published. Where’s Stripey? won the Western Australia Premier’s Literary Award in 2005 and has sold over 120,000 copies. Wendy also created a commercial picture book with the school children of Lord Howe Island, and also recently illustrated two books for Scholastic Australia.