About the illustrator: James Munro has been drawing since he could grasp a pencil. Since then, everything in his path has fallen prey to his doodles, from books and magazines to films and animations. He lives and works in a pile of pencil shavings and spilled ink in Liverpool. James Carter is an award-winning children's poet and non-fiction writer. An ambassador for National Poetry Day, for the last twenty years he has travelled all over the UK and mainland Europe to give lively and engaging performances. A former lecturer in Creative Writing/Children's Literature at The University of Reading in the last twenty years he has visited some 1500 schools, many libraries in England and Wales and performed at many key literary festivals including Hay, Edinburgh and Cheltenham. He has written over forty titles to date.