Ted Hughes was born in Yorkshire in 1930. His first book, The
Hawk in the Rain, was published by Faber and Faber in 1957, and was
followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for both children and
adults, including How the Whale Became, Under the North Star, Tales
from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984 and
was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998, the year in which he
died.
Laura Carlin is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and the
winner of several awards, including the Quentin Blake Award, the
2004 National Magazine Award and the V&A Book Illustration
Award. Her work has featured in Vogue, the Guardian and The New
York Times and her other books include The Silver Donkey by Sonya
Hartnett and Michael Morpurgo's The Kites are Flying! Laura was
awarded an honourable mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Award fiction
category for The Iron Man. She lives in London.
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