Cosy, gentle bedtime tale with a Guess How Much I Love You appeal. Bookseller

Claire Harcup developed magazines about dinosaurs, books and CD-ROMs about wine, and an animation series for children with autism before she started writing picture books. She now heads up the writing team at communications consultancy, Quietroom. She lives in London, W11. Gabriel Alborozo is an illustrator and cartoonist, who has written and illustrated numerous books for children, published by Walker Books, Candlewick Press, Henry Holt, Bloomsbury and Simon & Schuster. Over the years his work as a cartoonist has appeared regularly in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Private Eye,Punch, the Spectator, Prospect and the Oldie. Gabriel lives in Bexhill on Sea, Sussex.