Smriti Halls is an award-winning, internationally bestselling children's author whose books include Number 1 bestseller I Love You Night and Day; Rain Before Rainbows, illustrated by David Litchfield; Not That Pet, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw and Welcome to Your World, illustrated by Jaime Kim. She is published in more than 25 languages ... and counting. Her stories, sometimes fast-paced and funny, sometimes lyrical and tender, are always full of heart and speak to the child in all of us. Smriti was BookTrust's Writer in Residence from September 2020 to March 2021. Previously, Smriti worked at the BBC and across children's publishing and television as a writer and commissioning editor for twelve years. Find Smriti online at [...].uk, on Twitter as [...] and on Instagram as [...]

Marta Altés studied graphic design and worked in Barcelona, before completing the MA in Children's Book Illustration in Cambridge. She is now a full-time illustrator. She has illustrated over 20 picture books and has won the Read it Again! Award, the Nottingham Children's Book Prize and been awarded the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor. She has also been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the People's Book Prize and was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for I am an Artist. Find her on [...] and on Instagram and Twitter as [...]