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Andrew Wright was a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, the premier postgraduate art school in Britain. He has continued to paint, draw, and illustrate his own books. At the same time, he has continued to work with children – both his own, and those he meets in schools, drawing, designing, making books, and producing shadow theatre productions. As an art teacher he was, for 15 years, Principal Lecturer in Art and Design at the Metropolitan University of Manchester. As an author of language teachers’ resource books, he has published two other books in this series: Storytelling with Children and Creating Stories with Children. As a storyteller, story-maker, and book-maker, in the last eight years he has worked in ten countries with over 40,000 children. As a language teacher trainer he has worked in 30 countries, and was the founder of the IATEFL Young Learners Special Interest Group.

Alan Maley worked for The British Council from 1962 to 1988, serving as English Language Officer in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, and China, and as Regional Representative in South India (Madras). From 1988 to 1993 he was Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust, Cambridge. From 1993 to 1998 he was Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore. From 1998 to 2002 he was Director of the graduate programme at Assumption University, Bangkok. He is currently a freelance consultant. Among his publications are Literature, in this series, BeyondWords, Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, Words, Variations on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language Learning (all with Alan Duff), The Mind’s Eye (with Françoise Grellet and Alan Duff), Learning to Listen and Poem into Poem (with Sandra Moulding), Short and Sweet, and The English Teacher’s Voice. He is also Series Editor for the Oxford Supplementary Skills series.