Mike Barfield (Author) Mike Barfield is a best-selling children's author, cartoonist, poet and performer with books in well over a dozen different languages. He has a first-class degree in Biology from the University of London, and won the Blue Peter Book Awards 2021 for the Best Book with Facts. Marianna Madriz (Illustrator) Marianna Madriz is a freelance illustrator. Her clients include Creative Review , House of Illustration and The Eighty-Eight Journal .