About the Author

Steve Smallman lives in Staffordshire with his wife and the two youngest of his four children. He has been illustrating books for over thirty years, and writing his own stories for the past five. Steve won the Sheffield Children's Book Award in 2009 with Smelly Peter - The Great Pea Eater. Nick Schon lives in Luton with his wife and three children. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency and now illustrates full-time. The Monkey With A Bright Blue Bottom was his first book for Little Tiger Press.