Picture Books
About Us
Multi-award-winning illustration team Chantelle and Burgen Thorne are eclectic bookworms who delight in the magic of stories… and sometimes, write a story or two themselves. As career illustrators, they’ve learned to draw really fast and are deft wielders of the digital brush. They’re at their happiest drawing kids' stories with a dollop of humour and a ton of animals. When not at their desks, they can be found being towed around the countryside by their three rescue dogs.
Represented internationally by the marvellous
Paul Moreton of Bell Lomax Moreton in London.
Awards & Honours
2024 - Foreword Picture Book Award, Finalist
for Finley, A Moose on the Caboose,
2024 - Bank Street Best Children’s Books, STEM category
2023 - Purple Dragonfly Award, STEM Honorable Mention
for Science Matter and the Baseball Park
2022 - IBBY SA & Exclusive Books winner of Best Illustrator
2022 - IBBY International Honours List
for Kantiga finds the perfect name
2022 - SA Booksellers shortlist
for Shudu and My Coily, Crowny Hair
2022 - Bank Street Best Children's Books
2021 - Skipping Stones Award
for Wanda
2019 - Reader's Favorite, Gold Medal
2019 - Purple Dragonfly Award
for The Real Farmer in the Dell