Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's best-loved picture books. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Her books include Tyrannosaurus Drip, What the Ladybird Heard and the modern classic The Gruffalo, which has sold over 13.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over seventy languages. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems, plays and songs and her brilliant live children's shows are always in demand. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh. Joel Stewart grew up in Sheffield. He graduated from Falmouth College of Arts with a first class degree and won the Macmillan Prize for children's picture book illustration in 2000. Since then he has published over twenty books and illustrated for authors such as Julia Donaldson, Carol Ann Duffy (Moon Zoo) and Michael Rosen (Red Ted). He is also the creator and director of the hit children's TV series, The Adventures of Abney and Teal.

Beautifully illustrated . . . and wonderful to read aloud