Jonathan Emmett's books have been translated into 30 languages and have won fifteen awards in Britain and the USA. He started work as an architect but left, “to become a stay-at-home dad and to try my luck as an author and paper-engineer.”

His first book, Doohickey and the Robot, was published in 1999, and now he is recognised as a leading interpreter of scientific ideas for young children.

He names Dr Seuss, Maurice Sendak and Roald Dahl as authors who made a great impression on him as a child. When he’s not writing or paper-engineering, he likes to make furniture.

Polly Noakes studied illustration at Cambridge School of Art and recently returned to complete an MA in Children's Book Illustration. Her work is full of warmth and gentle humour. Polly lives and works in North Yorkshire where she walks daily and is constantly inspired by the natural world.