The Twin Giants

About the author

Mini Grey

Dick King-Smith (1922-2011), a former dairy farmer, is one of the world's favourite children's book authors. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Sheep-pig (filmed as Babe) and was named Children's Book Author of the Year in 1991. He is also the author of Walker's much-loved Sophie series, Lady Lollipop and Clever Lollipop, The Finger-Eater and Aristotle. Mini Grey was given her n ame after being born in a Mini in a car park in Wales. She is the author and illustrator of a number of books for children, and has won the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Nestle Smarties Book Prize. She studied at Brighton College of Art and now lives in Oxford.

Dick King-Smith