Matt Zurbo grew up in the inner north of Melbourne, before moving to the Otway Ranges, where he worked in the bush and wrote for most of his adult life.
It was later turned into an animated TV series of the same name by SLR Productions and won the 2008 Emmy Award for new approaches, daytime children's programming.
[4] He also released a compilation CD of the same name, featuring artists including Cris Wilson, Tony Gould, Vasco Era, the Exotics and Gian Slatter, bands that inspired parts of the book.
He then moved to Windy Hollow Books, releasing Tommy Tuckers (2012), a collection of three short children's stories with Alex Tyers.
[6] In 2018 Matt set out to write 365 children's stories in 365 days, and publish them for free, on the internet, as an ode to his baby girl, Cielo, whom the project was named after.