The Detective Dog - From the creators of Gozzle

Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 18 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Hospital Dog, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle series, illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs - and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was the UK Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia divides her time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.
Sara Ogilvie is an award-winning illustrator and printmaker from Edinburgh based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her bestselling and much-loved children's books include Dog's Don't Do Ballet by Anna Kemp and The Zebra's Great Escape by Katherine Rundell. Her collaborations with Julia Donaldson, The Detective Dog and The Hospital Dog, have sold a total of over a million copies worldwide and have won the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award and the Indie Book Awards in the UK. In addition to working on her picture books, Sara lectures in Illustration and Graphic Design at Northumbria University and continues to create work that is exhibited worldwide.