Lou Carter studied medicine for three years, then took a PGCE in primary education. Her work as a schoolteacher sparked her love of children’s picture books. The internationally successful There Is No Dragon In This Story was her first picture book with Bloomsbury. Lou lives in Cambridge. Deborah Allwright has become a star of the picture book world following the publication of the bestselling The Night Pirates. She has been shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Award and illustrated the hugely successful Don’t Read this Book! Deborah works in a studio in Islington, stopping only to attend designer clothes sales, and to do a spot of DJing at music festivals.

A clever, hilarious take on traditional fairy tales

Lou Carter studied medicine for three years, then took a PGCE in primary education. Her work as a schoolteacher sparked her love of children’s picture books. The internationally successful There Is No Dragon In This Story was her first picture book with Bloomsbury. Lou lives in Cambridge. Deborah Allwright has become a star of the picture book world following the publication of the bestselling The Night Pirates. She has been shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Award and illustrated the hugely successful Don’t Read this Book! Deborah works in a studio in Islington, stopping only to attend designer clothes sales, and to do a spot of DJing at music festivals.

A clever, hilarious take on traditional fairy tales

Lou Carter studied medicine for three years, then took a PGCE in primary education. Her work as a schoolteacher sparked her love of children’s picture books. The internationally successful There Is No Dragon In This Story was her first picture book with Bloomsbury. Lou lives in Cambridge. Deborah Allwright has become a star of the picture book world following the publication of the bestselling The Night Pirates. She has been shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Award and illustrated the hugely successful Don’t Read this Book! Deborah works in a studio in Islington, stopping only to attend designer clothes sales, and to do a spot of DJing at music festivals.

A clever, hilarious take on traditional fairy tales