This book is part of a book series called Puffin Poetry .

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Charles Causley was born in Cornwall, and apart from six years spent in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, lived there all his life. He was one of Britain's foremost poets, writing for both adults and children. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967 and appointed CBE in 1986. In 1987 he won the Kurt Maschler Award for Jack the Treacle Eater and in 1990 the Ingersoll/T. S. Eliot Award of America. Charles Causley died in 2003. Liane Payne originally trained to be a fine artist at the Norwich School of Art. After a short career in fashion design, she became an illustration agent at Arena. She now works as an illustrator herself, and teaches at the London College of Printing.