The Glump and the Peeble

The glump lives all alone in his cave, deep in the wood, wishing he could come out and dance with the peebles. Meanwhile, a peeble wishes she could be quiet and thoughtful -- like a glump. "Try not to be nervous," the peeble says to the glump. "You can't be frightened of things you've not tried." When they become friends it turns out the two creatures have a lot to teach each other! This funny picture book about the power of friendship teaches children it's fine to be different.

Wendy Meddour is the author and illustrator of A Hen in the Wardrobe and The Black Cat Detectives in the critically acclaimed Cinnamon Grove series. A Hen in the Wardrobe won the John C. Laurence Award for writing that improves relations between races and was shortlisted for the Muslim Writers' Award and for the Branford Boase Award for a first novel. Also the author of the Wendy Quill books, she lives in Wiltshire, U.K.

Rebecca Ashdown studied at Norwich School of Art, Westminister University and Central St Martins, and then worked as a graphic and motion designer, film-maker and freelance vector artist. She is now concentrating on illustration and uses drawing, printmaking and digital techniques to create her pictures. How the Library (not the Prince) Saved Rapunzel is Rebecca's first published book. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire.