Anne Rooney writes non-fiction for children and adults, and fiction for children. She has written more than 100 non-fiction books, many of them on topics in science and technology. She has also taught at the Universities of Cambridge and York, and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and Lector.

For the past decade, former Top 30 indie-pop bass player William Potter has been writing, illustrating and editing children's titles, including hundreds of comics. These have taken him around the world, to the sea bed, the past and the distant future.