Philip Ardagh is a prolific writer who has been published in 40 languages around the world. His titles include the bestselling Eddie Dickens trilogy, High in the Clouds, co-written with Paul McCartney, and Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky, the winner of the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He stands two metres tall with a most impressive beard, and lives with his wife and son in Kent, the Garden of England. Find him on twitter and instagram as @PhilipArdagh.Elissa Elwick collaborated with Philip Ardagh on the Little Adventures trilogy of picture books. She writes as well as illustrates, and is also the author-illustrator of The Princess and the Sleep Stealer. She conjures up ideas from her home in Cardiff, Wales. Find Elissa online at elissaelwick.co.uk and on Twitter and Instagram as @ElissaElwick

No toddler’s library would be complete without a book about dinosaurs, and preschool children will find plenty of prehistoric chaos in You Can’t Count on Dinosaurs by the ever popular Philip Ardagh. In this “almost counting book”, the cast ranges from Rex the Tyrannosaurus to Patty the Apatosaurus – but in a teasingly anarchic plot, we learn that no dinosaur can be counted on.