Karl Newson is an award-winning children's book author. He spends his days scribbling story ideas in his notebook or searching for them in the great big world outdoors. Karl was inspired to write his first picture book when his children were small and he's been writing stories ever since...

His stories have been shortlisted for numerous children's books awards and are translated in over 20 languages around the world. He is also an illustrator of other people's stories and a writer of nonsense poetry. When he isn't writing or drawing, he dreams of castles made of books and of rocketing to the moon to watch the world go by. Karl lives in London, with his partner and a forest of pot plants.

Chiaki Okada was born in Osaka, Japan and studied Illustration at the Setsu Mode Seminar art school in Tokyo. She has made books with authors from all across the world, and many with her husband, Ko Okada.

Her art, which often explores the everyday life of small children, has been exhibited widely, including at the Bologna Book Fair. For All the Stars Across the Sky is her first picture book published in the English language.