Penny Matthews is a freelance writer and editor based in Adelaide. Her picture books includeLittle Red Bear, Pudding and Chips, and A Year On Our Farm, which was the CBCA's 2003 Book of the Year (Early Childhood) and a CBCA Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year category. In 2010,Something About Water was joint winner of the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature.A Girl Like Me, her first young adult novel, was also a 2010 CBCA Notable Book and won the Sisters in Crime's 2011 Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction.