Charlotte Hudson has many year's experience as a primary school teacher in England and Africa. She is the author of the acclaimed Who Will Sing My Puff-a-Bye? , In a Little While. and Monkey Words. Now she is a full-time writer and mum. Lindsey Gardiner completed her degree in Printed Textiles at Dundee University, where she now lectures. She went on to do an MA at Winchester School of Art. Her Poppy and Max books (Here Come Poppy and Max, When Poppy and Max Grow Up, Orchard) have been very favourably reviewed. Her other titles include Mile-High Apple Pie, Who Wants a Dragon by James Mayhew, The Loopy Life of Lola (OUP), and Don't Let the Bad Bugs Bite! (Red Fox, Flying Foxes 2002).