Ezekiel and Raphael Dubb are two tigers whose voyage to strange lands is narrated in rhyming couplets, by the author of Watership Down which won the Guardian Award for children's fiction in 1972 and the Carnegie Medal in 1973. He has also written Shardik and The Plague. Nicola Bayley other books include Nicola Bayley's Book of Nursery Rhymes, Copy Cat Board Books, One Old Oxford Ox and The Mouldy.