Jane Clarke (Author) Jane Clarke is the talented poet and author of successful picture books including Dippy's Sleepover and G.E.M. She has also written Only Tadpoles Have Tails and Sherman Swaps Shells, in the Flying Foxes series. Jane currently lives in Kent with two big labradors and a collection of fossils, rocks and shells. Georgie Birkett (Illustrator) Georgie Birkett completed her degree in Graphic Design and Illustration at the University of Brighton in 1996. She has since illustrated many books, in various styles, for the educational and young fiction markets, as well as picture books and pre-school novelty books. In 2008 she won the Best Baby Book 2008 in the Booktrust Early Years Awards for Is This My Nose? (Red Fox). Georgie Birkett was born in Kent. She is the author and illustrator of many picture books, and has been published all over the world. She now lives in Lewes, East Sussex.