Jacqui Halpin is a former registered nurse, turned children’s author. Her passion for children’s books came when reading bedtime stories to her three children. She now enjoys reading her own picture books to her grandchildren. Jacqui has a passin for history which was sparked by stories of her larrikin father’s childhood escapades and tales from her mother who was an army nurse and midwife in the UK during the ‘Call the Midwife’ era. Jacqui lives in Brisbane where she bakes too many cakes, drinks too much tea, and eats way too much chocolate.