This book is full of lots of faces and lots of fun! The sturdy board pages have flaps to lift, the illustrations are bright and there is a mirror on the back page.

Georgie Birkett completed her degree in Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of Brighton in 1996. She has since illustrated many books, in various styles, for the educational and young fiction markets, as well as picture books and pre-school novelty books.

Two little girls go walking in bluebell wood and rescue a Bog Baby. They make the small creature a beautiful home in a bucket, tickle him and feed him cake crumbs.

Despite the girls' care and attention, the Bog Baby gets sick, so they confide in their mother, who isn't cross as they had feared, but tells them they must let their Bog Baby go back to the wild. Although they want to keep him, such is their love for him that they set him free.

The illustrations in this book are exquisite - the small, blue Bog Baby is particularly appealing. This is a picture book to treasure.

Jeanne wrote her first book when she was five years old and hasn't stopped writing since. She now has over eighty titles to her name, including picture books, novels and television scripts. She has also won numerous awards, including the Children's Book Award, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Silver Smarties Prize. Her teen novel, Naked Without a Hat (Faber) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award in 2004. She often takes inspiration from dreams and interesting conversations with strangers.

Gwen Millward studied illustration in Edinburgh and now spends all of her time painting and writing stories for children about her favourite subject, beasts. Her first book for Puffin, Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood was published in April 2007.

Describing music using words is tricky - but by adding pictures, Tim Hopgood creates musical magic on the page.

Ellington Avenue where Frankie lives is very quiet. Frankie's parents are very quiet, as are the cat, the dog and the clock. But one day Frankie returns home with a trumpet.

At first all he manages is dirty dishwater, pickled onions and brownness. But as he improves, so do the colours and smells until 'beautiful patterns of sound floated through the house' and the sound of sunshine comes to Ellington Street.

This vibrant celebration of synaesthesia uses colours, images and texture to stimulate sight, smell and touch, which then in some unfathomable way conjures a sense of sound; even the endpapers are symphonies in the colour of noise. Fantastic!

Tim Hopgood lives with his wife and cats in North Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Kingston University and worked for 20 years as a graphic design and freelance illustration. Tim's first book, Our Big Blue Sofa, was published in 2006 and in 2008 he was the winner of the Best Emerging Illustrator Award at the Booktrust Early Years Awards.