David Conway has been shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award for The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster. He has also been awarded The Peter Pan Silver Star by the Swedish wing of the IBBY and the Parents' Choice Gold Award in the US for Lila and the Secret of Rain. His first picture book The Most Important Gift of All with Karin Littlewood was nominated for The Kate Greenaway Medal in 2006. Charles Fuge has been writing and illustrating since 1988. His first picture book, BUSH VARK'S FIRST DAY OUT, won The Macmillan Prize and was published whilst he was in his second year at Camberwell School of Art. A year later it went on to win The Mother Goose Award for best newcomer to children's picture books. Charles was brought up and educated in Bath and now lives in Dorset. He is passionate about the natural world and its preservation hence he concentrates on animals and nature in his illustrations. He also plays bass in an alternative pop band.