Judy Allen is an award-winning author who has written more than forty-five books for children. Her novel "Awaiting Developments" won the U.K. Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the U.K. Friends of the Earth Award and was nominated for the U.K. Carnegie Medal. Mike Bostock is an award-winning children's illustrator. In the United Kingdom, he has received the Kurt Maschler Award, the Times Educational Supplement Junior Information Book Award, the Friends of the Earth Earthworm Award, and the Parents' Choice Illustration Award for his first picture book, "Think of an Eel,"