Biographical note

Tony Mitton is a popular children’s poet, whose The Red and White Spotted Handkerchief was the winner of the 2000 Smarties Prize and whose Royal Raps won the 1997 Nottinghamshire Libraries/Dillons Children’s Book Award. He has written a number of picture books including Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus and Down By the Cool of the Pool. His other titles include collections of poetry for older children. Ant Parker is well known for his bright, bold and appealing style of artwork. After studying Visual Communications at Bath Academy of Art, he taught papermaking, printing and bookbinding workshops before beginning to illustrate children's books. Ant has illustrated many novelty books for Macmillan Children's Books, including the highly successful Amazing Machines series for Kingfisher and Charlie Chick series for Campbell.