Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire on 13 January 1926 and educated at Presentation College, Reading.

He served in the Royal Air Force and the British Army before working as a cameraman for BBC TV for 19 years.

In 2015, Michael was awarded a CBE for his services to children's literature, to add to the OBE he received in 1997.

Emily Sutton graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a degree in illustration. As well as illustrating picture books, she paints, sculpts and designs prints.

Her first book with Walker, Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes, written by Nicola Davies, began an exciting new strand of very young non fiction; her second was the beautiful picture book The Christmas Eve Tree, a future classic. Emily lives in York.