Farmer Duck is an amusing fable. Martin Waddell’s awards include the Smarties Book Prize for Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear? , and Farmer Duck , the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award for The Park in the Dark and the Best Books for Babies Award for Rosies Babies . His other books include The Big Big Sea , Owl Babies , Let’s Go Home Little Bear , John Joe and the Hen and the Little Dracula books. Helen Oxenbury won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1979, and her books include Animal Allsorts and Curious Creatures . She has three times been Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and three times won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and So Much .