David McKee's first book was published in 1964. His books are now sold in different languages throughout the world, and many of them have been adapted for television. He is one of the leading contemporary children's book creators. Born and brought up in South Devon, whilst still at art college he started selling one-off ... Read morecartoons to newspapers and on graduation, he began to contribute to such publications as Punch, Times Educational Supplement and the Reader's Digest. His first book, Two Can Toucan was published in 1964 and since then David has written and illustrated numerous children's books. As well as his own books, which include the popular best-selling Elmer series, David illustrates for a number of other writers including Michael Bond's Paddington Bear and Forrest Wilson's Super Gran books. Show Less