Farmer Duck is an amusing fable. Martin Waddells awards include the Smarties Book Prize for Cant 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, Lets 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, Were Going on a Bear Hunt and So Much.