Dub Leffler is a multi-award-winning illustrator, writer, animator and mixed media artist, working in the arts through books, film, television, muralism and art education. He is descended from the Bigambul and Mandandanji people of southwest Queensland as well as being of French, Syrian and Irish heritage. His award-winning bestselling picture book Once There Was a Boy (2011) received international recognition, was acquired by the Library of Congress and was featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Sorry Day (2018) written by Coral Vass won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award, and Bindi (2020) written by Kirli Saunders was celebrated with countless awards, including the ABIA Small Publisher’s Children’s Book of the Year and the Queensland Literary Awards, Children’s Book Award.

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