Eric and the Striped Horror

About Barbara Mitchelhill

Barbara Mitchelhill (Author) Barbara Mitchelhill was born in Rochdale and trained as a teacher. While she was teaching she began writing for BBC children's TV and went on to write for educational publishers before writing novels for children. She makes school visits all over the country and enjoys appearing at literary festivals and talking to teachers and librarians some as far away as the Caribbean. Her hobbies include reading theatre music gardening and walking her border terrier Ella. She lives in Staffordshire and has two grown-up daughters and four grandchildren.Tony Ross (Illustrator) Tony Ross has been illustrating books for 50 years and has been published all over the world. He is perhaps best known for his much-loved Little Princess series which has been adapted for TV and is currently showing on Channel 5's Milkshake and for his collaboration on David Walliams best-selling childrens books. Tonys books have been shortlisted for the The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (Slug Needs a Hug) and the Kate Greenaway (Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers) and Tadpoles Promise won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize. He was named as the best-selling illustrator in the UK for three years in a row and he is the UKs libraries' most-borrowed illustrator. He lives in Macclesfield.