Lou Peacock (Author) Lou Peacock loves words, stories and poems and has nearly thirty years of experience in children's publishing. She is Nosy Crow's Publishing Director at Large for Picture Books, and her own stories have been published in nearly 30 languages. Lou's previous poetry anthology - the highly-acclaimed A Whale of a Time, illustrated by Matt Hunt - was a Waterstones Book of the Year in 2023 and also The Times book of the week. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son and their small black fluffy dog called Lyra.Alison Friend (Illustrator) Alison has loved painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. Animals were always a favourite subject, and as a child she copied them obsessively from wildlife books and encyclopaedias.Alison lives in the beautiful Lake District with her husband Mike,her son Cal and Border Collie, Blue. In her spare time she enjoys walking Blue in the fells, swimming in the lakes (when it's warm!) and falling asleep during really good films!

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Lou Peacock (Author) Lou Peacock loves words, stories and poems and has nearly thirty years of experience in children's publishing. She is Nosy Crow's Publishing Director at Large for Picture Books, and her own stories have been published in nearly 30 languages. Lou's previous poetry anthology - the highly-acclaimed A Whale of a Time, illustrated by Matt Hunt - was a Waterstones Book of the Year in 2023 and also The Times book of the week. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son and their small black fluffy dog called Lyra.Alison Friend (Illustrator) Alison has loved painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. Animals were always a favourite subject, and as a child she copied them obsessively from wildlife books and encyclopaedias.Alison lives in the beautiful Lake District with her husband Mike,her son Cal and Border Collie, Blue. In her spare time she enjoys walking Blue in the fells, swimming in the lakes (when it's warm!) and falling asleep during really good films!

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Lou Peacock (Author) Lou Peacock loves words, stories and poems and has nearly thirty years of experience in children's publishing. She is Nosy Crow's Publishing Director at Large for Picture Books, and her own stories have been published in nearly 30 languages. Lou's previous poetry anthology - the highly-acclaimed A Whale of a Time, illustrated by Matt Hunt - was a Waterstones Book of the Year in 2023 and also The Times book of the week. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son and their small black fluffy dog called Lyra.Alison Friend (Illustrator) Alison has loved painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. Animals were always a favourite subject, and as a child she copied them obsessively from wildlife books and encyclopaedias.Alison lives in the beautiful Lake District with her husband Mike,her son Cal and Border Collie, Blue. In her spare time she enjoys walking Blue in the fells, swimming in the lakes (when it's warm!) and falling asleep during really good films!

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