Jeanne Willis was born in St Albans Herts. She attended Watford College to study advertising copywriting, and then went to work as copywriter at Doyle Dane Bernbach in Baker Street London and later Young and Rubicam. Ms. Willis had her first book published by Andersen Press when she was 21. Since then, she has written over 180 books for children including novelty, picture books, novelettes, and teen novels. Among other awards, she has won the Silver Smarties and was shortlisted for the Whitbread. She has also written many scripts for childrens' TV. Ms. Willis is married with two children and two cats, and she lives in North London. Adrian Reynolds was born in Castel-Nedd, South Wales in 1963. After studying at Swansea College of Art and later at Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Adrian worked at Heffers Children's Book Shop then began writing and illustrating his own picture books. Adrian's very first books were published in 1997 and since then he has published more than forty titles, including four Pete and Polo titles, Big Red Bath by Julia Jarman, Bear in the Cave, by Michael Rosen, and the hugely popular Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs series, written by Ian Whybrow.

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