EDGE: How to Handle Your Mum

Roy Apps is the author of more than fifty children's books, including The Twitches, Fang Gang and How To Handle. Roy Apps is the author of the highly successful Dream to Win series for Franklin Watts. His novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won The Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. It is now a successful musical. Roy writes extensively for radio, theatre and TV. In 2001 he was awarded a BAFTA for his children's TV work, which includes Byker Grove, The Ghost Hunter and Barmy Aunt Boomerang.Roy visits schools, libraries and bookshops to read from his books and to share the secrets of The Shed in Your Head.Nick Sharratt (illustrator): Nick's work encompasses books for babies through to books for earlyteens, and he has produced around 150 books to date. He is perhaps best-known for his illustrations for the multi-million selling author Jacqueline Wilson. He also writes his own picture books and collaborates with various reputed picture book writers on books such as Pants and Eat Your Peas. Recent awards include the Children's Book Award, Sheffield Children's Book Award, The Stockport Schools Award, the Experian Big Three Award. He has also been nominated for the 2003 Kate Greenaway Prize.