Mrs Thumb, a genteel wooden doll, lives quietly in a prettily appointed doll's house. Then one day the cat comes to play. This story is told in simple verse combined with detailed illustrations that provide a cat's-eye view of a tiny world. Jan Mark has twice been awarded the Carnegie Medal and has also won "The Guardian" Award, the "Observer" Teenage Fiction Prize and the Angel Award for Fiction. Her books include "Thunder and Lightnings', "The Dead Letter Box", "Fur", "Strat and Chatto" (winner of the 1990 Mother Goose Award), "The Snow Maze", "This Bowl of Earth" and "Great Frog and Mighty Moose". Nicola Bayley's picture books include "The Patchwork Cat", "Copycats" and "The Mousehole Cat".