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Michael Morpurgo is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. He has written more than forty books for children, including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature. Tom Clohosy Cole is an Illustrator living and working in London. He grew up in Brighton on the Sussex coast and studied Illustration & Animation at Kingston University, graduating in 2011. Over the last 8 years, he's worked on illustrated picture books, alongside commercial illustration work. He also works in animation as a background artist, storyboarder and sometimes director. Tom enjoys the great outdoors, travel, painting and sports, when he retires he hopes to be an oil painter.
