In 2024, Mikey Please published his first picture book The Cafe at the Edge of Woods, which went on to bag the Waterstones’ Children’s Book of the Year prize and became a stepping stone for Please’s ...

Lappano is a children's book author from Ontario. His picture book Tokyo Digs a Garden won the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature — illustration.

Mikey Please has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 for his funny and immersive picture book, The Café at the Edge of the Woods (HarperCollins Children’s ...