Children will love lifting the flaps and discovering the pictures that lie beneath.

Jess Stockham was born in 1957 in Luton and lived in a village in Hertfordshire until she was 17.

She completed a foundation year at Watford Art College and then left full time education to move to Exeter and become a waitress. She then moved to West Yorkshire and started a leather goods business with her husband, Steve. She lived there for 18 years and had two sons, Matt and Ed.

In 1990 she started illustrating full-time for various popular women’s magazines and mother and baby publications. In 1995 she moved to West Wales with her family where she has lived and illustrated for the past 12 years.

Polly Dunbar's illustrations are gorgeous and her palette stylish - from the endearing Ben's rosy cheeks to the magnificent turquoise lion who eats him up.

Polly Dunbar studied illustration at Brighton Art School and now lives and works in London. Author and illustrator of Penguin, Dog Blue and Flyaway Katie, she thinks that colour is a brilliant way to cheer yourself up and whenever she's feeling grey, she puts on her best pink frock and paints! Polly is the daughter of the distinguished author Joyce Dunbar who she collaborated with on the picture book Shoe Baby. She is also the illustrator of My Dad's a Birdman, written by David Almond, and Here's a Little Poem, an anthology of poems for very young children. Polly was one of the Best New Illustrators 2008 and Booktrust's fourth writer in residence read her blog. Polly lives and works in Brighton.

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Read Idea's Everywhere

A small girl takes her toy monkey everywhere with her. Together they imitate and then imagine visiting a string of real animals, from penguins to kangaroos, whose glorious images fill the pages.

Emily Gravett was born in Brighton. After leaving school with few qualifications she spend eight years living on the road before getting a place on the BA Illustration course at Brighton university. She won the Macmillan Prize for illustration with Wolves which was published to great acclaim in August 2005, winning many prizes and making the beginning of an internationally stellar career creating extraordinary books for children. She now lives back in Brighton with her partner, daughter and two pet rats.

Emily is one of Booktrust's Best New Illustrators 2008.

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