Have You Seen My Blankie?

Lucy Rowland grew up in Cheltenham and gained a degree in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Reading before becoming a children’s speech and language therapist in South London, where she now lives. Lucy has loved reading and listening to poetry from a young age and has turned her passion into writing stories with quirky characters and irresistible rhythms, as seen in Jake Bakes a Monster Cake, Pirate Pete and His Smelly Feet, and Little Red Reading Hood.

Paula Metcalf has written and illustrated many children’s books, and she’s been doing so for a very long time. (Her parents still own an early original illustrated poem, the short but pithy “Pin in Tin,” penned at age four.) She went on to study illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in England, where she is currently a visiting lecturer in the master’s program in children’s book illustration. Paula Metcalf lives in Cambridge, England.