Little Farmer Joe

About the author

Ian Whybrow

Ian Whybrow is an award-winning children's book author. Described as "a major talent" (T.E.S.), he won the UKRA Award, the 1996 TBS Birmingham Children's Book Award and the Talkies Award for Best Book and Tape (with Griff Rhys Jones) for Little Wolf's Book of Badness (HarperCollins). Quacky, Quack Quack (Walker) was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize and Harry and the Snow King (Levinson) was Wate rstone's Book of the Month. A Baby for Grace (Kingfisher) has received wide-spread praise. Ian is married with two daughters and divides his time between Harrow and Hertfordshire. Christian Birmingham - "a modern-day Degas" (Guardian) - is an acknowledged star in children's book illustration, having illustrated titles such as The Magic Bicycle and classic editions of Oliver Twist, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (all HarperCollins) and A Christmas Carol (Kingfisher). He has been nominated for the Mother Goose and Kurt Maschler awards and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and his illustrations for A Baby for Grace (Kingfisher) won much acclaim. He lives in south-west London.

Christian Birmingham