Caroline Crowe spent 10 years as a national newspaper journalist in London, England, before swapping fact for fiction. She now spends her time indulging her love of silliness and writing picture books. When she's not thinking up works that rhyme with pants, she most enjoys reading stories with her three young sons and eating salt and vinegar potato chips.

Richard Merritt has been an illustrator for 15 years after graduating from Central Saint Martin's college of Art and Kingston University. Richard has worked on many varied projects, from children's books and packaging to magazines and costume illustration for Hollywood films. When he is not drawing, Richard enjoys all types of culture. He takes in the wealth of art and theater that London has to offer on a regular basis, and is long suffering fan of Tottenham Hotspur football club.