Rosie Dickins grew up in England and Hong Kong. An avid reader, she always loved dreaming up her own stories. After studying literature at Oxford University, art in Paris and plenty of travelling, she settled in London, where she works for Usborne Publishing. She has written over a hundred children's books, from award-winning information books to fiction.

Rob Lloyd Jones never wanted to be a writer when he grew up he wanted to be Indiana Jones. So he studied Egyptology and archaeology, and went on expeditions to strange places.

But all he found were interesting stories, so he decided to write them down.

Jake Atlas and the Tomb of the Emerald Snake is his third novel for Walker, although he's written about thirty other books for children, including historical non-fiction and adaptations of such classics as Jekyll and Hyde.

Rob lives in East Sussex with his wife and two young sons.

Even as a child, Isabella Grott had an inclination for drawing and painting, that made her enroll and graduate at the art institute in Trento (Italy). After that, she moved to Florence where she currently lives and where she obtained a BA in graphics at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

Afterwards, she also graduated at the Nemo Academy of digital arts. During the years, she has participated to various workshops with international artists, which helped and encouraged her in a continuous quest within the illustration field. She has been selected for an exhibition at the Pisa Book Festival.

She collaborates with various publishers to create illustrated books, on paper and digital, and she teaches at the Nemo Academy in Florence.