I Love My Daddy

About Giles Andreae

Giles Andreae is the author of many top-selling award-winning picture books. These include Rumble in the Jungle Commotion in the Ocean and I Love My Mummy. However it is for the international bestseller Giraffes Can''t Dance that he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie Britain''s favourite stickman and of the artist/philosopher Edward Monkton. These two ranges of greetings cards books and merchandise have made Giles the country''s top-selling living poet. Giles lives with his wife Victoria a children''s clothes designer and their four children by the river in Oxfordshire. Emma was brought up in Guildford Surrey in a family of artists. As a child she loved the work of Peter Firmin John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator. Emma studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin''s School of Art and has worked in advertising editorial and book illustration. The I Love You range has sold over 750000 copies and I Love My Mummy won the Book Trust Early Years Award. Emma lives in Surrey with her husband and two children and their terrier cross Buzz who keeps her fit and provides inspiration. The family likes to spend any spare time in North Cornwall surfing and walking in all weathers.