Amazing Machines: Amazing Aeroplanes, Paperback Book, By: Tony Mitton

About the Author: Tony Mitton is a popular childrens poet whose The Red and White Spotted Handkerchief was the winner of the 2000 Smarties Prize and whose Royal Raps won the 1997 Nottinghamshire Libraries/Dillons Childrens Book Award. He has written a number of picture books including Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus and Down By the Cool of the Pool. His other titles include collections of poetry for older children.Ant Parker studied Visual Communications at Bath Academy of Art where he learnt about etching drawing bookbinding and animation. He then spent ten years doing editorial illustrations as well as making fish in boxes teaching bookbinding and gardening before beginning to illustrate childrens books. Ant lives in South London during the week and in Sussex at the weekend.