Joe Fullman is an experienced children's author and has written many non-fiction reference titles. He has a personal interest in music, plays several instruments and performs with a folk band. Rose Blake is an illustrator and artist who studied at the Royal College of Art. Her book A History of Pictures for Children (2018), written by David Hockney and Martin Gayford, won the New Horizons award at the 2019 Bologna Children's Book Fair.

'The book is very accessible and punchy and I particularly liked its sense of equality and the way in which it is not dominated by the bigger nations ... The World Book is a triumph in how it neatly and simply explains the world'

Joe Fullman is an experienced children's author and has written many non-fiction reference titles. He has a personal interest in music, plays several instruments and performs with a folk band. Rose Blake is an illustrator and artist who studied at the Royal College of Art. Her book A History of Pictures for Children (2018), written by David Hockney and Martin Gayford, won the New Horizons award at the 2019 Bologna Children's Book Fair.

'The book is very accessible and punchy and I particularly liked its sense of equality and the way in which it is not dominated by the bigger nations ... The World Book is a triumph in how it neatly and simply explains the world'

Joe Fullman is an experienced children's author and has written many non-fiction reference titles. He has a personal interest in music, plays several instruments and performs with a folk band. Rose Blake is an illustrator and artist who studied at the Royal College of Art. Her book A History of Pictures for Children (2018), written by David Hockney and Martin Gayford, won the New Horizons award at the 2019 Bologna Children's Book Fair.

'The book is very accessible and punchy and I particularly liked its sense of equality and the way in which it is not dominated by the bigger nations ... The World Book is a triumph in how it neatly and simply explains the world'