Jennifer Higgie went to art school in Australia and now lives in London, where she is co-editor of the art magazine frieze. She write regularly about art and has also published a novel, Bedlam, edited a book on art and humour, and writes screenplays.

‘This luscious picture book offers such pleasures that small children (and their grown-up read-aloud machines) will be drawn towards it … Its simple story — that while there are billions and zillions of all sorts of things, there is only one you — is full of heart yet stays well away from sentimentality … The overall effect is one of joy.’ FOUR AND A HALF STARS