Catherine Barr worked at Greenpeace International for seven years as a wildlife and forestry campaigner and has a long-running interest in environmental issues. While working as an editor at the Natural History Museum, she researched and wrote two major summer exhibitions: Dinosaurs of the Gobi Desert and Myths and Monsters . Her previous books for Frances Lincoln Children's Books include The Story of Inventions , T he Story of Life , and The Story of Climate Change . She lives on a hill near Hay-on-Wye in Herefordshire with her partner and two daughters. Amy Husband studied Graphic Art at Liverpool School of Art. Her first picture book, Dear Miss , was winner of the Cambridgeshire Children's Picture Book Award in 2010, and she also wrote and illustrated Dear Santa , in the same series. Amy lives in the East Yorkshire countryside with her husband James, working from her home studio. Steve Williams is a biologist with a degree in Marine Biology and Applied Zoology from the University of Wales.

His lifelong love of wildlife was further inspired by eight years at sea, after which he trained as a teacher, and now teaches science in a rural comprehensive school in Wales. He is a beekeeper and lives near Hay-on-Wye with his wife and two daughters.