Phil Earle (Author)
Phil Earle was born, raised and schooled in Hull. His first job was
as a care worker in a children's home, an experience that
influenced the ideas behind Being Billy and Saving Daisy. He then
trained as a drama therapist working in south London with
traumatized and abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the
care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of being a
bookseller, now working in children's publishing.
His novel When the Sky Falls was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie
Medal and won the 2022 British Book Award for Children's Fiction
Book of the Year, as well as the Books Are My Bag Readers Award and
the Times Children's Book of the Year.
Phil now lives on a hill in West Yorkshire with his wife, children,
two dogs and a dragon called Baz.
Jess Rose (Illustrator)
Jess Rose is an Author, Illustrator, and Designer born and raised
in Yorkshire, England. She loved to draw from a very young age. At
University she studied print and pattern and went onto work in
design. Her love for storytelling has always been there, using
pictures to create the stories from her imagination for her
children at bedtime. Jess has illustrated for several children's
books, and her work has been featured on Cbeebies bedtime stories.
When Jess isn't working and spending time with her family, she can
be found walking in the countryside, wild swimming and practising
aerial hoop.
Phil Earle's reassuring and hopeful picture book suggests
imaginative ways to find courage and to tackle a child's anxiety
about parents who separate.
*Sunday Times*
Heartfelt, honest and positive - a much needed, wonderful picture
book!
*personal review*
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