Dick King-Smith served in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, and afterwards spent twenty years as a farmer in Gloucestershire, the county of his birth. Many of his stories are inspired by his farming experiences. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe), Harry's Mad, The Hodgeheg, Martin's Mice, The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver.At the British Book Awards in 1991 he was voted Children's Author of the Year. In 2009 he was made OBE for services to children's literature. Dick King-Smith died in 2011 at the age of eighty-eight.

Josie Rogers is the great-granddaughter of Dick King-Smith. She works as an editor in Glasgow.

Stephanie Laberis has worked on the Netflix animated series Rhyme Time Town, on Mass Animation's feature animation Blazing Samurai, and on various animated pilots and series for such clients as Nick Jr, Sesame Workshop, Spin Master and Hasbro. Illustrator of the Grumpy Cat Little Golden Book series, she has illustrated over 40 picture books to date. She lives in El Cerrito, California.