Davina Bell is a writer from Western Australia. She is the author of the award-winning picture book The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade , which won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Award for Best Children's Book from a Small Publisher, and Under the Love Umbrella , which was shortlisted for the same award in 2018 (both illustrated by Allison Colpoys). She is also author of the 'Alice' books in the bestselling Our Australian Girl series. For six years she was a Senior Editor at Penguin Books in the Young Readers Division, where she worked with some of our country's most beloved children's book creators. Davina lives and works in Melbourne, where she still dreams about the Western Australian beaches while drinking a lot of very good Melbourne coffee.