The Red Boxing Gloves

David Metzenthen is a Melbourne-based author for young readers. He's written dozens of books for children and young adults, including One Runaway Rabbit, Johnny Hart's Heroes, Boys of Blood and Bone, Wildlight: A Journey, Augustin and the Hot Air Balloon and Jarvis. Metzenthen has received many awards for excellence, including the 2000 CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers, a 2003 Victorian Premier's Literary Award and a 2003 Queensland Premier's Literary Award. His book One Minute's Silence won the Children's Fiction category in the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Stephen Whittaker has had a range of acting experience: on stage in The Three Musketeers; on television in Halifax, Blue Heeler, Rush and City Homicide; and in film in The Hard Word. The Quick Reads were his debut narration for Bolinda.