Rachel Elliot has been writing stories all her life, and her first book was published in 2004.

Since then she has written lots of books for children.

She works as a freelance writer and editor, and lives in Devon with her husband and two daughters.

Amy Husband studied Graphic Art at Liverpool School of Art. Her first picture book, Dear Miss, was winner of the Cambridgeshire Children's Picture Book Award in 2010, and she also wrote and illustrated Dear Santa, in the same series. Amy lives in York with her partner, working in a studio with views of York Minster.