The author, Joe Carr, is a eighty-year-old retired police officer, married, with two daughters and six grandchildren, aged between 10 and 2 years old. The reading of stories to both his own children, and later the grandchildren, nurtured the seed of writing his own story book. The characters in the book are all well-known to children from an early age. The story has been left open-ended for, perhaps, further adventures by the characters mentioned.
