Award-winning author Stella Blackstone has written many of Barefoot's best-selling titles, including the Bear series, the Cleo the Cat series and My Granny Went to Market.

Stella lives in Somerset, UK.

Giuliano Ferri is an artist, an animator, and an award-winning author and illustrator of many children's books, including minedition's Brick by Brick, I See, I Touch, Mama Bear, Little Bear, Let's Play Soccer!, Nino's Magical Night, Peekaboo, and The Snowball. Mr. Ferri also works with young people with disabilities, using animation and comic theater as therapy.