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Davina Bell is an Australian writer, editor and literary consultant. She worked as an editor at Penguin Australia for six years. Her first novels were in of the Australian Girls series which includes Meet Alice, Alice and the Apple Blossom Fair, Alice of Peppermint Grove and Peacetime for Alice. The Underwater Fancy-dress Parade (illustrated by Allison Colpoys) is her first picture book. It won of the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards Small publishers' children's book of the year and the 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, Crichton Award for New Illustrators. She also wrote Hattie Helps Out (co-written with Jane Godwin and Freya Blackwood), Oh, Albert (co-written with Sara Acton), A Thousand Silver Ghosts (a short story included in the anthology, Where the Shoreline Used to Be), and Under the Love Umbrella.

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