Jeanne Willis (Author)
Jeanne Willis was born in St Albans and trained as an advertising copywriter at Watford College. She worked for various agencies creating press adverts and TV, cinema and radio commercials. She is now a full-time writer. Her hobbies include gardening, reading (non-fiction), natural history and collecting caterpillars. Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, includingPolly PocketandThe Slow Norris, and a pilot TV series forDr Xargle. She lives in North London with her husband and two children.
Adrian Reynolds (Illustrator)
Adrian Reynolds was born in South Wales, and after studying at Swansea College of Art and later at Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Adrian worked at Heffers Children's Book Shop before beginning to write and illustrate his own picture books.
Adrian's very first books were published in 1997 and since then he has published more than forty titles, including the hugely popularHarry And The Bucketful Of Dinosaursseries, written by Ian Whybrow. He has won the Red House Picture Book Award and the Sheffield Children's Book Award.