Jess McGeachin is an author and illustrator from Narrm, Melbourne. His debut picture book, Fly, was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia and Queensland Literary Awards. Since then, Jess has written and illustrated 15 fiction and non-fiction picture books that have been published in Australia and around the world. His book Deep won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award in 2023. He was awarded an Australian Antarctic Arts fellowship to write South with the Seabirds, which was a CBCA Honour Book in 2025. Jess draws quite literally from nature and has a day job at a museum, where he occasionally gets lost in the basement.
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Title List
- Find Me in the Forest
- Grow
- South with the Seabirds
- The Space Between
