Applicants for a vacancy in Louie the milk vendor's band of helpers must pass through a rigorous selection process that includes a note reading test, a delivery race, and a savage dog test.
E.W. (Edmund Wallace) Hildick was a British children's book author. He was born in Bradford, England in 1925. After two years service in the Royal Air Force he became a secondary school teacher, then a writer, later moving to the United States to become editor of a literary magazine. He died in London in 2001.