The Night Before the Night Before Christmas: Book and CD

About Kes Gray

Kes Gray is a bestselling multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different. Kes was the second bestselling picture book author in 2018. Oi Frog! Oi Dog! Oi Cat! and Oi Duck-billed Platypus! are a top ten bestselling series. Oi Dog! won the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award and was shortlisted for the Sainsbury''s Children''s Book Award and the British Book Award amongst others. It also won the Teach Primary New Children''s Fiction Award MadeForMums Award Bishop''s Stortford Picture Book Award and Portsmouth Picture Book Award. Oi Cat! was the Independent Booksellers Children''s Book of the Season and Oi Goat! was the number one bestselling World Book Day book in 2018. Oi Frog! received a Silver Award at the Nielsen Bookscan Awards 2019 and Oi Duck-billed Platypus! was shortlisted for the Children''s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2019. Claire is an illustrator writer and designer who lives and works in London. She has spent several years as a design director in the world of channel rebranding working for clients such as Nickelodeon BBC Three CBBC and BBC One. Claire has a tendency towards humour and bright bold use of colour and she loves creating strong typographical layouts to help tell a story.