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Mikey Please.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom

Mikey Please: British animator-turned-picture-book-maker behind The Café at the Edge of the Woods and The Cave Downwind of the Café — gentle-funny, animation-flavoured picture books for ages 4–7.

Mikey Please is a British author-illustrator and animator best known to children's-book readers as the creator of The Café at the Edge of the Woods and The Cave Downwind of the Café, gently-funny picture books in a slightly retro children's-book tradition. Please is also an Oscar-shortlisted animator (The Eagleman Stag), and his picture-book voice carries that animation-trained sense of character timing and visual storytelling. A reliable contemporary UK picture-book maker for ages 4–7 in the gentle-funny register.