Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Her first picture books, The Digits series, were published when she was fifteen years old. She later spent ten years disguised as a lawyer, while maintaining a not-so-secret Other Life as a comics artist and children's book author. Nicki is the creator of the award-winning 'staged-on-the-page' adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet , and of the graphic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby . Inspired by her own young children, Nicki has written and illustrated many delightful picture books for younger readers including The Naughtiest Reindeer series, Meerkat Choir , Teddy Took the Train , and Morris the Mole . In her Zelda Stitch novels, Nicki has come a step closer to realising her childhood dream of being a witch.