Meet the author

Matt Cosgrove.

Writer & illustrator · Australia

Matt Cosgrove: co-creator of Worst Week Ever! and the Macca the Alpaca picture books — fast, daft, cartoon-and-photo comedy that reliably hooks reluctant 8–11 readers who love Wimpy Kid.

Matt Cosgrove is an Australian author-illustrator based in Sydney, best known for the bestselling Macca the Alpaca picture books and, with his wife Eva Amores, the globally translated Worst Week Ever! series. A former magazine creative director with a first-class design degree, Cosgrove brings a slick visual comic energy to Worst Week Ever!, which chronicles Justin Chase's spectacularly disastrous week one day at a time, in a manic mash-up of text, cartoons and photographs. Fast, daft and stuffed with slapstick, gross-out gags and running jokes, the books are built to turn reluctant readers into page-turners, and sit comfortably alongside Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates and the Treehouse series. Reliable, high-octane comedy for 8–11s who want laughs on every page.