David Hornsby was with the Ministry of Education (Victoria, Australia) for many years and taught at every year level. He lectured in education at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and La Trobe University. For four years he was a curriculum consultant in primary and secondary schools and then returned to the primary classroom. He is now working in teacher education, in educational publishing, and as a curriculum consultant in schools. David is invited to present at conferences worldwide. He has completed ten lecture tours of the United States, and has also worked with teachers in England, Ireland, Indonesia, and Singapore. His latest book, A Closer Look at Guided Reading (Eleanor… Curtain), has just won the award for being the best book in the Primary Teacher Reference category of the "Australia Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing."
Lorraine Wilson lives in Melbourne, Australia and works as an education consultant. Much of her work involves long-term professional development programs within individual schools and classrooms, where she demonstrates teaching strategies that meet the needs of individual teachers. She is the author of Reading to Live (Heinemann, 2002).