John Martineau is the publisher of Wooden Books, and author of A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System. He wrote this poem to see how many different rhyming animal ways he could find to say hello and goodbye to his young kids at the school gate. Carolyn Dinan is an award-winning illustrator who has written and illustrated numerous books for leading publishers (in the UK, Europe and USA). She has been a visiting lecturer in illustration for several years at Chelsea College of Art and Design, and on the MA illustration course at Middlesex University.
