Helen Mortimer worked for several major publishing companies before becoming a freelance children's books editor and author. Her picture books for children include the Words for Little People series, Omar, the Bees and Me, Enzo, the Swallows and Me, When a StarFalls and The Winter Wish.Helen lives in Oxfordshire.

Ashling Lindsay is writer and illustrator from Belfast. Among her picture books for children are The Dog Who Danced on the Moon by John Boyne and The Night Box by Louise Grieg, which was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Teach Primary Book Awards and the Klaus Flugge Prize. She teaches Illustration at Belfast School of Art.