Jenny Nimmo worked at the BBC for a number of years, ending with a spell as director/adaptor for Jackanory. Her many books for children include The Stone Mouse (shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and broadcast on BBC TV), The Owl-tree (Winner of the 1997 Smarties Book Prize), Toby in the Dark and Dog Star. Her well-known trilogy, comprising The Snow Spider (Winner of the 1986 Smarties Book Prize), Emlyn's Moon and The Chestnut Soldier has been made into a television series. Jenny Nimmo lives in a converted water mill in Wales with her artist husband and three children. David Parkins has illustrated a number of children's books, including six Sophie stories by Dick King-Smith and the picture books No Problem; Tick Tock; Prowlpuss (shortlisted for the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award, the 1995 Smarties Book Prize, and Commended for the National Art Library Awards for Illustration), Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble, Aunt Nancy and Cousin Lazybones and Webster J. Duck. The illustrator also of The Dandy's Desperate Dan comic strip and an accomplished tenor, he is married with two children and lives in Lincolnshire.
