Helen Baugh wrote her first book (a book of spells) as a very young child. After taking a degree, travelling and working as a copywriter for more than twenty years, she finally came full circle and started writing children's books again. Helen lives with her partner and their two daughters near the sea in Sussex.

Deborah Allwright has become a star of the picture book world following the publication of the bestselling The Night Pirates.

She has been shortlisted for the V&A Illustration Award, and illustrated the hugely successful Don 't Read this Book!

Deborah works in a studio in Islington, stopping only to attend designer clothes sales, and to do a spot of DJing at music festivals.