Author

Martin Waddell

Martin Waddell (Author)

Martin Waddell is known and respected the world over for his incredible storytelling. Martin has won the Smarties Prize twice and was presented with the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature. For Orchard, Martin has written the fun, action-packed bestseller 'The Dirty Great Dinosaur' and its sequel 'The Super Swooper Dinosaur' (both illustrated by Leonie Lord), and two wonderful story collections 'The Orchard Book of Goblins, Ghouls and Ghosts' (illustrated by Tony Ross) and 'The Orchard Book of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales' (illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark). Martin lives in Northern Ireland.

Jason Cockcroft (Illustrator)

Jason Cockcroft is an author and illustrator. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and lives in Yorkshire, where he spent his childhood. Jason studied illustration at Falmouth School of Art, and has illustrated over fifty books for publishers including Bloomsbury, Hodder, OUP, Orchard Books, Walker Books and Frances Lincoln in the UK, and Henry Holt, Dutton Books, Alfred A Knopf and Margaret McElderry Books in the United States. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for his work on Geraldine McCaughrean's retelling of 'A Pilgrim's Progress'.