Spud

Alison Prince is an established author of children's books and was joint-winner of the Guardian Prize in 1996, sharing it with Philip Pullman! She also writes poetry and won the Literary Review Annual Poetry Prize in 1997.She has recently published a biography of Hans Christian Andersen, the research for which entailed her learning Danish.Alison lives on the Isle of Arran, Scotland.Spud is a scruffy dog with a big heart - and an even bigger belly. He loves scrounging in dustbins, scaring cats an