ADDY FARMER is a children's writer and teacher. She is networks co-ordinator for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and regional co-ordinator for the SCBWI in the North East. Her story for early readers, Grandad's Bench, was published by Walker Books in 2008. She lives in Lincolnshire. CHRIS FISHER has illustrated around 65 books including Nonsense Nursery Rhymes (for which he received the Play and Learn Gold Award in 1998) and The Snow Dragon for which he received a Kate Greenaway Medal nomination in 2000