Rachel Ip has always loved language and literature. After studying modern languages and linguistics at Cambridge University, she worked in marketing communications for over 10 years, before turning her hand to children's book writing. The Forgettery will be Rachel's second picture book, following The Last Garden. She lives in Hong Kong.

Laura Hughes studied illustration at Kingston University and is the illustrator of the Oscar's Book Prize-winning There's a Pig Up My Nose, the Greenaway Medal-nominated Daddy's Sandwich, as well as the bestselling We're Going on an Egg Hunt and sequels. She lives in Hastings, East Sussex.