Quirky and fun illustrations throughout This Pongwiffy title and the complete backlist, plus a brand new title, Pongwiffy Back on Track, have all been repackaged and reillustrated to celebrate 21 years of this hugely popular series Author is very good at events, regularly appearing at schools, conferences and festivals UK sales of the Pongwiffy series stand at over 325,000 copies

'Brought roars of both delight and disgust ... an ebulliently uninhibited farce' Guardian 'Young readers adore the jokes and the grubbiness' Daily Telegraph 'Jokey enough to persuade reluctant readers there is pleasure to be had from dipping into books' Guardian 'Funny ... a riot of silly voices, good bad puns, daft situations and comic caricatures' Children's Book of the Week, The Sunday Times

Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth, Devon. Her favourite books as a child were the Just William books, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit and The Swish of the Curtain. She went to Teacher Training College, after which she taught in London primary schools for twelve years, specialising in music and drama. In her spare time she sang and played keyboards with a semi-professional soul band. She now lives in North London and writes full-time - or as full-time as she can get in between trips to Sainsbury's and looking after her husband (Mo), daughter (Ella) and her cats.