Giles Andreae is the author of many top selling award-winning picture books. For Orchard, these includeRumble in the Jungle,Commotion in the Ocean, andI Love My Mummy. However, it is for the international bestsellerGiraffes Can't Dancethat he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman, and of the artist/philosopher, Edward Monkton. These two ranges of greetings cards, books and merchandise have made Giles the country's top selling living poet and an icon of contemporary popular culture. Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children's clothes designer, and their four young children by the river in Oxfordshire.