David Almond is the acclaimed author of Skellig, winner of the Whitbread Children's Award and the Carnegie Medal; Kit's Wilderness, winner of the Smarties Silver Award; and The Fire-Eaters, winner of the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Gold Award and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. His previous collaborations for Walker have been with Polly Dunbar on the highly acclaimed My Dad's a Birdman and The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon, with Dave McKean on Slog's Dad and The Savage, and most recently with Oliver Jeffers on The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas. David lives in Hexham, Northumberland, with his wife and daughter. www.davidalmond.com Dave McKean is an award-winning artist and film director whose work spans drawing, painting, photography, collage, digital art and sculpture. His books for children include The Savage, Slog’s Dad and Mouse Bird Snake Wolf by David Almond, all of which were shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award, and S.F. Said’s Varjak Paw, Outlaw Varjak Paw, Phoenix and Tyger. For adults he has illustrated novels by Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, and Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck Cookbook. Dave lives in Kent. www.davemckean.com