Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of over 200 books specializing in engaging and entertaining non-fiction books for children and young adults. His books have garnered much praise and won Children's Choice, NAPPA Gold Star, TES Book of the Year, and Smithsonian awards. Refugees was shortlisted for The British Book Awards whilst Discover the Extreme World was on the four-book shortlist for the 2012 Blue Peter Book Award. In October 2018, Clive won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for The Book Of Comparisons. He also won The Blue Peter Book Award 2019 for The Colours of History. Clive has contributed many articles to Encyclopaedia Britannica , appeared on radio and at live events, and written hundreds of articles to a wide range of publications. He is based in Manchester, England. Clive Goodyer has illustrated a variety of children's books over the years.
His fun, quirky, and charming illustrations are highly distinctive. Richard Watson studied illustration at Lincoln University School of Art and Design and achieved a first class BA honours degree upon graduating. He began working as an illustrator soon after leaving University in 2003. He uses a range of techniques to produce his artwork mixing traditional drawing and painting with collage and mixed media. He is the illustrator of the successful Dog Diaries series by Steven Butler and James Patterson. Follow him on Instagram @richardwatson_illustration. Julian Mosedale is an illustrator and sometime teacher working in North London. His cartoons and illustrations have appeared everywhere from jazzing up serious grown up stuff in newspapers like The Independent and The Observer to huge wallpaper murals in children's hospitals and schools.
He is particularly pleased with his children's story books and activity books. He has produced a number of these for Buster Books, including The London Coloring Book, The Coloring Book, Messy Monsters, and The Rio Activity Book . All of which are guaranteed to provide hours of inventive doodling, intricate coloring, and amazing masterpieces for all who pick up a pen and venture inside their covers.