Tom Pow is one of Scotland's best-known poets. The winner of two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards for his poetry, he is also the author of three radio plays and a travel book about Peru. Who Is the World For? is his first picture book and was written for his own children, while he was travelling through Africa a couple of years ago. "I missed them desperately!" he says. "I had just visited the Masai Mara so animals were also very much on my mind."
Robert Ingpen was born in 1936 in Geelong, and now lives and works in Barwon Heads.
In 1968 he began his long career as a freelance illustrator and storyteller publishing well over 100 books on Australian life, history and conservation, but mostly illustrated stories for children such as Storm Boy (with Colin Thiele) and The Idle Bear. His most known, at least in the Geelong region, is The Voyage of the Poppykettle, a folk story that emerged as the enduring annual festival for children.
In 1986 he became the only Australian to be awarded the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his contribution to children’s literature as an illustrator, and has been honoured with a Doctor of Arts of RMIT, and with Membership of the Order of Australia.
More recently he has illustrated the acclaimed series of children’s classics, of which there are now sixteen titles that continue to be published in many editions worldwide. Titles like Peter Pan, Treasure island, The Jungle Book, Wind in the Willows, A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Tom Sawyer, The Secret Garden, Pinocchio, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, The Nutcracker, Robinson Crusoe and in 2021 Gulliver’s Travels.
