About the Author

Corrinne Averiss is the author of My Pet Star, winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book of the Year, the Stockport Children's Book Awards and in over 450,000 homes as part of Booktrust's Pyjamarama campaign. Her first book, A Dot in the Snow, illustrated by Fiona Woodcock, was shortlisted for the CILIP Greenaway award, featured on CBeebies' Bedtime Stories and in The Sunday Times' Books of the Year. She is the author of Joy, Hope, Sorrel and the Sleepover, The Boy on the Bench and Floss the Playground Boss. She is drawn to themes of identity and belonging in her books and aims to deliver big feelings with humour and tenderness.Kirsti Beautyman works from her studio in Newcastle Upon Tyne, using a range of mediums to build layers of texture and detail which are combined digitally to create her illustrations. She finds inspiration within mundane observations and is often staring vacantly into the distance thinking up narratives and ideas. Kirsti won Picture Hooks Illustrator of the Year Award in 2017.

Reviews

'Enormously reassuring.'
*Red Reading Hub*

‘This heartwarming tale is also a timely reminder of how love connects us all, no matter how far apart we might be.'
*LittleLibraryOwl*

‘The most touching portrayal of love I’ve ever seen.’
*RaisingSmallReaders*

'Another tenderly written tale from Corrinne Averiss.'
*BookGiftBlogger*