Once a children's book editor, Emily Hawkins is now a full-time author. Her work has been featured on the New York Times bestseller list ( Oceanology , 2009) as well as winning the Children's Travel Book of the Year Award ( Atlas of Animal Adventures , 2016). Along with her background in children's non-fiction Emily has a strong interest in myth, folklore, and storytelling. In 2020 she wrote A Natural History of Fairies , published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group, which has been translated into eleven languages. Emily holds a first-class English degree from Nottingham University, and lives in Winchester, UK, with her young family. Tom Adams is an award-winning television producer and author. He was born in Yorkshire but now lives in Kent, UK. With a science background, he was inspired to turn his hand to writing children's books once his eldest son, then 5, started asking questions about how the world worked.

He won the Society of Authors/ ALCS Award for Educational Writing for his book Molecule Mayhem. Tom Clohosy Cole is a London-based freelance illustrator, designer & animator. He is the illustrator of All Aboard the Discovery Express , Destination: Planet Earth and Destination: Space , which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2017.