Mikey Please

Mikey Please is a BAFTA award-winning animation director and writer. He is an alumni of Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal College of Art.

Together with long-time collaborator, Dan Ojari, he created, wrote, and directed ROBIN ROBIN for Aardman Animations/Netflix. The film was released on the platform for Christmas 2021 and was nominated for an Academy Award 2022 for Best Animated Short Film.

Mikey Please's debut picture book THE CAFÉ AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS was published on 26th September 2024 by HarperCollins to critical acclaim.  It was named The Times Children’s Book of the Week, included in Amazon's Top 15 Children’s Books of the Year and Top 100 Books of the Year, and hailed as a 'brilliantly accomplished debut' by Bookseller. The second book in the series, The Cave Downwind of the Café, will be published in 2025.  Mikey is represented by The Wylie Agency for his books.