Interview with a Kangaroo

Andy Seed is a Gloucestershire-based Blue Peter award-winning author. He has written both adult and children books and has been writing since 2000. He has a background in education having been a primary school teacher and deputy head for 17 years and is also an e-learning consultant for schools. He has written educational books, articles, games, non fiction books on a range of fun topics, as well as comic poems for children. He says he gets most of his ideas from his own love of reading. Nick East is the illustrator of the bestselling TOTO THE NINJA CAT series, written by Dermot O'Leary. He is also the illustrator of Michelle Robinson's popular GOODNIGHT . . . series. He worked for many years as a museum designer but has always been a storyteller whether, as a child, filling sketchbooks with quirky characters or, as a designer, displaying a collection of ancient artefacts. Nick is based in York.

• Kangaroo - Koala - Virginia opossum - Wombat - Tasmanian Devil - Numbat - Bandicoot - Sugar glider - Quokka - Spotted cuscus.