Michael Rosen deals sensitively with the concepts of death and bereavement. Child Care

MICHAEL ROSEN is an enormously successful and popular writer, poet, scriptwriter, performer and broadcaster. Winner of the Smarties Award, the Other Award and the Signal Poets Award, he has written more than a hundred children's titles, including, Uncle Billy Being Silly and Centrally Heated Knickers (both Penguin), When Did You Last Wash Your Feet? (Collins), Even More Nonsense (Hodder) and, for Frances Lincoln, Songbird Story. In 1997 he won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for his outstanding contribution to children's literature. PRISCILLA LAMONT studied graphic design at Canterbury College of Art. A full-time artist, she is a portrait painter as well as a successful children's book illustrator. Her recent titles include Our House and Where's my Mum? (both by Walker), Will there be Polar Bears? (Reed), Playtime Rhymes (Dorling Kindersley) and a series of nine books for the Cambridge Reading Scheme.