Pesky Pets and Parties

Liz Pichon is one of the UK's best-loved and bestselling creators of children's books. Her Tom Gates series has been translated into 47 languages, sold millions of copies worldwide and has won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story and the younger fiction category of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. In the 12 years since The Brilliant World of Tom Gates first published, the books have inspired the nation's children to get creative, whether that's through reading, drawing, doodling, writing, making, music or performing.

Mathew Baynton is a prolific English actor, writer, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his various roles on CBBC's comedy sketch show Horrible Histories, playing Vikings, monks, peasants and kings. Further television credits include Ghosts, Vanity Fair, The Split, Quacks and The Wrong Mans of which he was the co-creator and writer. In 2015, Mathew played William 'Bill' Shakespeare in Bill.