Pixie O'Harris

Pixie O'Harris MBE (born Rhona Olive Harris; 15 October 1903 – 17 November 1991) was a Welsh-born Australian artist, newspaper, magazine and book illustrator, author, broadcaster, caricaturist and cartoonist, designer of book plates, sheet music covers and stationery, and children's hospital ward fairy-style mural painter.

Her brother was Cromwell Harris, who immigrated from Cardiff, Wales to Perth, Western Australia.

[2] During the 1950s she completed a series of murals and paintings for the children's wards of several hospitals with her brother Olaf.

He was also the editor of the Australian Encyclopaedia, and a younger brother of the artist Douglas Pratt.

[2] Is awarded for "Distinguished and Dedicated Service to the Development and Reputation of Australian Children’s Books".