Karl Newson is an award-winning children's book author. He spends his days scribbling story ideas in his notebook or searching for them in the great big world outdoors. Karl was inspired to write his first picture book when his children were small and he's been writing stories ever since...

His stories have been shortlisted for numerous children's books awards and are translated in over 20 languages around the world. He is also an illustrator of other people's stories and a writer of nonsense poetry. When he isn't writing or drawing, he dreams of castles made of books and of rocketing to the moon to watch the world go by. Karl lives in London, with his partner and a forest of pot plants.

Nicola Kinnear grew up in north west Kent where her inspiration for drawing was fueled by books, trips to the countryside and quite a few pets.

Since graduating from the Illustration Animation BA at Kingston, Nicola has continued her love of storytelling and drawing characters through children's book illustration. She still has quite a few pets.