Dickens His Work and His World

Michael J. Rosen is an acclaimed author, editor and illustrator of some forty books for both adults and young people. Many are inspired by his lifelong experience with animals; he studied Zoology at university, has worked as a dog trainer and founded a granting programme to support animal welfare organizations. He says of ChaseR, When I moved from the major city where I’d lived most of my life to a rural community, the changes were monumental. And I often thought, What if I hadn’t actually chosen to live here? I wrote this novel not only to imagine this new way of life from a teenage point of view, but also to consider the complicated (and always teetering) balance we try to achieve, living, as we all do, amid an ever-diminishing natural world. Michael J. Rosen lives in Ohio, USA.

Robert Ingpen is a distinguished illustrator with over forty years illustrating experience, during which time he has been widely published throughout the world. In 1986 he became the only Australian ever to have won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Children’s Literature (Illustration) and he also received the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 1989.