This is a major publishing event - two of the UK's outstanding prize-winning artists working together for the first time. "The Legend of Gilgamesh" is the oldest written story, pre-dating both "The Bible" and "The Iliad".

An epic story about a quest for immortality, it also includes a "Legend of the Flood" that is remarkably similar to the story of Noah.

Geraldine McCaughrean has won every major prize for children's literature in this country, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and, most recently, The Blue Peter Best Book to Keep Forever Award.

David Parkins is a highly acclaimed artist, and has been shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler and Smarties awards.

He received many critical accolades for "God's Story with Jan Mark".