Martin Waddell has twice won the Smarties Book Prize - for Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? and Farmer Duck (also Winner of the British Book Awards: Children's Illustrated Book of the Year), as well as the Best Books for Babies Award for Rosie's Babies and the Kurt Maschler Award for The Park in the Dark. Other titles include Who Do You Love?; The Hollyhock Wall; Owl Babies, Night Night, Cuddly Bear and many stories for older readers. David Parkins has illustrated a number of children's books, including six Sophie stories by Dick King-Smith and the picture books No Problem; Tick Tock; Prowlpuss (shortlisted for the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award, the 1995 Smarties Book Prize, and Commended for the National Art Library Awards for Illustration), Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble and Aunt Nancy and Cousin Lazybones. The illustrator also of The Dandy's Desperate Dan comic strip and an accomplished tenor, he is married with two children and lives in Lincolnshire.