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About the author
Elli Woollard is an exciting talent on the picture books scene, who started writing stories after an embarrassing incident in which her youngest son broke Michael Rosen's glasses. In addition to picture books, she also writes children's poems. Her snappy rhymes, catchy rhythms and witty stories are sure to make her a huge success. Elli has written
The Giant of Jum, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and
The Dragon and the Nibblesome Knight for Macmillan, as well as the young fiction series Swashbuckle Li. Elli lives in London with her four children, her husband and two guinea pigs.
Marta Altés is the award-winning creator of
My Grandpa, I am an Artist!, My New Home, The King Cat, Little Monkey and
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. She loves to tell stories and her love of illustration saw her study for a degree in Graphic Design in Barcelona. Marta moved to the UK to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art and graduated in 2011. Since then she has won the Read It Again! Award and the Nottingham Children's Book Award. Her first book
No! was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Picture Book Prize, and
Little Monkey was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award. It was also chosen as the Booktrust Time To Read campaign title. Marta lives in London.
