Pip Jones is a children's author, feature writer, columnist and editor based in the south west, who is most often found writing or herding children. She is the author of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize 2017 shortlisted Izzy Gizmo and its brilliant follow-up Izzy Gizmo and the Invention Convention. Her series Squishy McFluff won the Greenhouse Funny Prize in 2012.

Sara Ogilvie is an illustrator and printmaker and was the 2011 BookTrust Best New Illustrators Award winner. Dogs Don't Do Ballet, which she illustrated, was shortlisted for the 2010 Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the 2010 BookTrust Early Years Award. Sara lives in lives in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north of England.