"*"A Platonic ideal of the kind of book beginner readers need - the stories score highly on all the important points." The Daily Telegraph"

Anne Fine has won the Smarties Book Prize, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Carnegie Medal (twice) and has twice been voted Children's Author of the Year. She lives in County Durham. Penny Dale is an author and illustrator whose titles include the bestselling Ten in the Bed and the 1980 Kate Greenaway Medal-winning Rosie's Babies, written by Martin Waddell. She lives in Newport, Wales.