Caterpillar Cake
Would you like to eat a caterpillar cake? Join a rocket race into space? See crazy crocodiles at the zany zoo or play with a furry, purry cat? Wherever these 16 fun-filled poems lead you, they will brighten your day.
Matt Goodfellow is an award-winning poet and former primary school teacher whose high-energy performances have captivated thousands of children in schools, libraries and at book festivals across the UK. His previous books for Otter-Barry Books are Chicken on the Roof, Being Me: Poems about Thoughts, Worries and Feelings (with Liz Brownlee and Laura Mucha), shortlisted for the CLiPPA Award 2022, the Yoto Kate Greeenaway shortlisted picture book Shu Lin's Grandpa (illustrated by Yu Rong) and the best-selling verse novel for readers of nine-plus, The Final Year. Matt lives in Stockport, Cheshire.
Krina Patel-Sage is an illustrator, designer and author, whose artwork is created digitally, using Photoshop. In 2018 she was shortlisted for Penguin's Write Now Illustration prize. Following Caterpillar Cake, her second picture book for Otter-Barry Books is Love is all we Need, published in May 2024. Krina has two young sons and lives in London.