Polly Dunbar (born 1977) is an English author-illustrator.She is best known for her self-illustrated books Penguin, the Tilly and Friends series (which became a BBC children's television series) and Hello, Mum – an illustrated memoir of motherhood and her first book for adults.She has also illustrated other authors' books: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, My Dad's a Birdman by David Almond, Can Bears Ski? by poet Raymond Antrobus, Owl or Pussycat? by Michael Morpurgo, and While We Can't Hug by Eoin Mclaughlin.Hello, Mum is Polly's first book for grown-ups, a visual diary about early motherhood. She is the daughter of children's book writer Joyce Dunbar, whose picture book Shoe Baby she illustrated. Source: Wikipedia (en)