Tim Hopgood is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator. His first book, Our Big Blue Sofa, was published by Macmillan in 2006 and won the Cambridgeshire Read it Again! award for best debut picture book.

In 2008 he won the Booktrust Early Years Award for Best Emerging Illustrator, with the hugely successful WOW! Said the Owl.

His books for Macmillan include A Dog Called Rod, Here Comes Frankie and his acclaimed preschool titles, TIP TAP Went the Crab, Hooray for Hoppy and Walter's Wonderful Web.

Sam Boughton is a British author and illustrator living in South Devon. She trained at the Cambridge School of art in Children's Illustration. This was shortly followed by being awarded the Ronald Searle Award for Creativity and Highly Commended for the Macmillan Prize. The Extraordinary Gardener is her first book for Tate.