Children's author and reviewer Mary Hoffman was born in 1945. She attended Newnham College to study English literature and University College London to study linguistics. She started writing in 1970 and has written about eighty children's books including the picture book Amazing Grace, the Stravaganza series, and the anti-war anthology Lines in the Sand. She is also the editor of the children's book review magazine Armadillo, which comes out four times a year.
ROS ASQUITH has been a Guardian cartoonist for 20 years, and has written and illustrated over 70 books for young people, including the bestseller The Great Big Book of Families , with Mary Hoffman, the Teenage Worrier series, Letters from an Alien Schoolboy -which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize- and her debut picture story book It's Not Fairy . Ros lives in north London with her husband and two sons. For more information about Ros, visit her website: www.rosasquith.co.uk