I Love My Mummy

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Giles Andreae

Giles Andreae is the author of many top selling picture books, a number of which have won national and international awards. For Orchard, these include Rumble in the Jungle, Commotion in the Ocean, and I Love My Mummy. However, it is probably for the international bestseller Giraffes Can't Dance that he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman, and of the artist / philosopher, Edward Monkton. These 2 ranges of greetings cards, books and related merchandise have made Giles the country's top selling living poet and an icon of contemporary popular culture in the UK. Giles is an ambassador for The Arts Award, Tesco's Ambassador for Books into Schools and Clubs. Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children's clothes designer, and their 4 young children by the river in Oxfordshire. Emma Dodd is the illustrator and author-illustrator of many bestselling and award-winning picture books and board book series. For Orchard, Emma's books include her collaboration with Giles Andreae with I Love My Mummy (winner of the 2010 Booktrust Early Years Award) and I Love My Daddy to date; other works include I Love Bugs and I Love Beasts. She was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. Emma studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin's School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. Emma lives in Surrey with her husband and two children and their Jack Russel Terrier, Bart. The family like to spend time in North Cornwall, surfing and walking in all weathers.