Penelope Lively is one of England's most distinguished writers. She is a short story writer, reviewer, radio and television scriptwriter, and has presented a children's literature programme on Radio 4. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is also a former Chairman of the Society of Authors and a member both of the Arts Council Literature Panel and of the Board of the British Library. She was awarded the O.B.E. in 1989 and made an Hon.D.Litt. by Tufts University, Massachusetts in 1992. Ian Andrew's illustrated books include The Lion and the Mouse, shortlisted for the 1996 Mother Goose Award: Back to the Blue, written by Virgina McKenna; Midnight Man, written by Bertie Doherty; The Kin, written by Peter Dickinson; and Michael Morpurgo's Colly's Barn