Snow Bears: Mini Pop-Up Classic - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Martin Waddell is widely regarded as one of the finest contemporary writers of books for young people and he won the prestigious Hand Christian Anderson Award in 2004. He is also a twice winner of the Smarties Book Prize - for "Farmer Duck" and "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?" - and he also won the Kurt Maschler Award for "The Park in the Dark" and the Best Books for Babies Award for "Rosie's Babies". Among his many other titles are the novels "The Haunting of Ellen"; "Tango's Baby"; "The Life and Loves of Zoë T. Curley"; "The Kidnapping of Suzie Q"; and his trilogy about the troubles in Northern Ireland: "Starry Night" (Winner of the Other Award, runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and short listed for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize), "Frankie's Story" and "The Beat of the Drum".

Sarah was born in London in 1956, and studied at Hornsey and Croydon Colleges of Art, before taking a four-year course in Graphic Design and Illustration. Focusing on illustrating animals in their natural environments (bats, beavers, bears, cats, wolves and even a caribou), Sarah also has a particular interest in natural history, and has contributed illustrations to a number of field guides and gardening books. She now lives in Wales. Sarah has illustrated many picture including "Little Beaver and the Echo" by Amy MacDonald, Winner of The TES Information Book of the Year Award. Sarah lives in Wales.