'A moustache?' Super Whiz demanded. 'On the mayor?' gasped Valiant Vera. 'Didn't she always have one?' said Desmond. Extraordinary Ernie and Marvellous Maud have a good chance of winning the Heroes of the Year award - until a pencil-wielding fiend starts to wreak havoc in Baxter. Can Ernie and Maud stop Pencil Pete and win the golden trophy?
Author Biography
Frances Watts was born in Switzerland and grew up in Australia. Her bestselling picture books include Goodnight, Mice! (illustrated by Judy Watson), the winner of the 2012 Prime Minister's Award for Children's Fiction; 2006 Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book Kisses for Daddy (illustrated by David Legge); and 2008 Children's Book Council of Australia award-winner Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books (illustrated by David Legge). Her young adult title The Peony Lantern, set in nineteenth-century Japan, was shortlisted for a NSW Premier's Literary Award in 2016. For more, visit www.franceswatts.com
