Teresa Heapy has been an editor and tutor as well as an author. Her many books include educational titles for the Oxford Reading Tree as well as picture books, including Very Little Red Riding Hood, with Sue Heap. Kate Read's first picture book, One Fox, was an international sensation, winning the Teach Early Years Award and the Mathical Book Prize in the UK; and the Cybils Award, a Parents' Choice Gold Award and a Kirkus Star in the US. Her illustrations are made with hand-painted and mono printed paper collage, finished digitally.