Connie and the Water Babies

Jacqueline Wilson is a hugely successful children's author and has won a number of prestigious awards, including the British Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. In 2002 Jacqueline received an OBE for services to literacy in schools. She was the highest-borrowed author in British libraries in the last decade.

An actor since the age of 14, Bernard Cribbins had become a major star on the London stage by his mid-20s, but it was another ten years before he became a national star due to his success in film comedies and with a string of hit records. He appeared in several episodes of the 'Carry On' series, and also achieved a great degree of success doing voiceovers for cartoons and TV commercials.