This book was published 2001 by Oxford University Press .

Kevin Crossley-Holland is well-known as a poet, broadcaster, and writer for children. He won the Carnegie Medal in 1985. For Oxford, he has written The Green Children and adapted Beowulf for children. Barbara Leonie Picard's retellings of traditional stories have long been acclaimed by critics and children alike. She has also written several historical novels and original fairy tales. Marion Rose is the author of several picture books for young children. She lives with her family in North London. Jason Cockroft is a regular contributor to the Bloomsbury list. He has worked on both picture books for us as well as fiction jackets, included Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Jason lives in Leeds. John Bush John Bush has written many picture books, some of which have been illustrated by Korky Paul, such as The Fish Who Could Wish. John's other well-known pictures books are The Bungle in the Jungle, The Cross With Us Rhinoceros and The Giraffe Who Got in a Knot. This is his first Banana. He lives in South Africa. Korky Paul Korky Paul is an illustrator with many well-loved books to his name, such as the best-selling Winnie the Witch series. He has also illustrated two Red Bananas about Pa Jinglebob: the Fastest Knitter in the West (written by Mary Arrigan). He lives in Oxford. Brian Lawrence Wildsmith was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ABC. In all his books, the illustrations are always as important as the text. Wildsmith is considered as one of the greatest children's illustrators. The British Library Association recognised his first book, the wordless alphabet book ABC (1962), with the Kate Greenaway Medal for the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. Four of his works were subsequently commended runners-up for the Medal, all published by Oxford University Press: Oxford Book of Poetry for Children, edited by Edward Blishen, 1963; The Lion and the Rat: A Fable, by Jean de La Fontaine (1668), adapted from Aesop, also 1963; Birds, 1967; and The Owl and the Woodpecker, 1971. The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books. Wildsmith was one of two runners-up for the inaugural illustration award in 1966 and one of three runners-up in 1968. Find out more here https://www. brianwildsmith. com/.