David Melling

David Melling grew up in London and has illustrated for magazines and advertising agencies as well as animated TV and film. He is the creator of a series of picture books about Ruffles the dog, as well as the Hugless Douglas series and The Kiss That Missed, which was short-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. The creator of some 150 books printed in more than thirty languages, David Melling lives near Oxford, England, with his wife and their two children.