Roaring Rockets

Tony Mitton is a popular children's poet, whose poetry collection The Red and White Spotted Handkerchief (Scholastic) was winner of the 2000 Smarties Prize. He has written scripts for BBC Radio's Playtime and works regularly with primary age children as a performing poet. He lives in Cambridge. Ant Parker is rapidly building a reputation in the children's book world for his distinctive, vibrant work in books such as Big Fish, Little Fish, which was animated for BBC Children's TV. For Kingfisher he has illustrated the pop-up counting book 10 Little Monsters as well as an I Am Reading title: JJ Rabbit and the Monster. Ant lives in London.