Imogen Russell Williams is a writer, editor and noted children's literature critic, whose work appears in the Guardian, the TLS, the Metro and Books For Keeps, among many others. She is also the author of The Big Book of the UK (Ladybird).

Louise Lockhart is an illustrator living in an old mill in a small town in England.

She spends her days creating designs from little paper cut outs and line drawings, dreaming up worlds where men still wear suits and hats.

As well as working as a freelance illustrator, Louise also applies her illustrations to products for the home, which she sells in her online shop The Printed Peanut.