Katrina Charman has spent her life surrounded by books ever since her first visit to the library when she was tiny. She now lives in a house full of bookshelves, and continues to fill them with books that she has written. When she's not writing for children, she is cuddled up with one of her fluffy cats and a good book, or plucking cat hairs off her clothes.

Georgie Birkett is a BookTrust-award-winning children's book writer and illustrator who has also been long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She has made many books for children and lives with her husband, two sons, and two cats in the characterful town of Lewes, near the south coast of England.