'Alice, your books span non-fiction and fiction for adults, with One Hundred Days shortlisted for the 2022 Mites Franklin Literary Award; your YA novel Laurinda winning the Ethel Turner Prize; thoughtful, engaging children's series fiction; the excellent bilingual English and Chinese-language picture book, Be Careful, Xiao Xin! and now the children's book Millie Mak the Maker (the last two illustrated by Sher Rill Ng, published by HarperCollins Australia).' (Introduction)