Other awards include…

The Kids' Club Network Award
Right Start Toy and Book Award (Three titles)
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award Winners (twice)
English Association Four to Eleven Awards (Two titles)
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award,
Federation of Children's Book Awards (Three titles)
Sainsbury's Baby Book Award
Experian Big 3 Book Prize
Nottinghamshire Children's Book Award
US Smithsonian Institute (Highly Recommended)
Sheffield Children's Book Award.

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What was your first book called?

Our very first books were about a little pig called 'Truffles', (now sadly porked!). That was in 1984. Cathy and I didn’t invent any other animal characters until we started work on CHIMP AND ZEE, which is also the name of our bookshop in Lyme Regis

This is a series of books for very young children featuring twin monkeys called ...CHIMP AND ZEE, who are based very closely on our own twins when they were young
Ha, ha, ha! Hee, hee, hee! Up jumps Chimp, up jumps Zee!.