Ian Whybrow is a well-loved writer with a wonderful talent for capturing children's humour and imagination, with
over 100 books to his name. He has written several successful novelty picture books, including the best-selling The
Bedtime Bear, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Ian is also well-known for his Harry and the Dinosaurs series, and he
does superb events at schools and literary festivals.
David Melling is the creator of the bestselling Hugless Douglas series and has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Smarties Book Award. Before becoming an internationally-acclaimed author-illustrator, David worked as an animation artist for films including the much-loved Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs. One of his most popular picture books The Tale of Jack Frost was animated and shown on BBC1 on Christmas Day.