David Almond is the acclaimed author of Skellig, winner of the
Whitbread Children's Award and the Carnegie Medal; Kit's
Wilderness, winner of the Smarties Award Silver Medal, Highly
Commended for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Guardian
Award; and The Fire-Eaters, winner of the Whitbread Award, the
Smarties Gold Award and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. David
has also collaborated with Polly Dunbar on the highly acclaimed My
Dad's a Birdman and The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon, and with
Dave McKean on The Savage, Slog's Dad and Mouse Bird Snake Wolf.
David lives in Hexham, Northumberland. To find out more about David
and his books, go to www.davidalmond.com
Polly Dunbar is a major star in the picture-book firmament. She is
the author-illustrator of Penguin, Dog Blue and Flyaway Katie, and
the illustrator of Shoe Baby, written by her mother, Joyce Dunbar.
Her best-selling book Penguin has won numerous awards including the
Book Trust Early Years Award 2007, the Nestle Silver Children's
Book Prize 2007, the Practical Pre-School Award 2007 and the Red
House Children's Book of the Year Award 2008, and was shortlisted
for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Her collection of titles beginning
with Hello Tilly have been made into an animated series, Tilly and
Friends, currently airing on CBeebies. Polly lives in Brighton,
Sussex.
It’s a story about love and it gives the reader a wonderful sense
of joy about what it means to be alive. You will have read nothing
else quite like it.
*The Guardian*
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