Smriti Halls is an award-winning, critically acclaimed children's author. Since publication of her first picture book in 2012, she has had a U.S. number 1 bestseller and been published in more than 30 languages. She explores relationship and identity; the personal and the political; how it feels to be in your own skin - and in someone else's. Her books are always full of hope and heart and speak to the child in all of us. Several of her books have been nominated and shortlisted for national awards. South Indian by birth, British by nationality, and London-loving by heart, Smriti lives with her husband and their three sons, reading, writing and eating iced buns.

Chaaya Prabhat is an illustrator from Chennai, India currently working out of Goa. She has worked on a number of picture books, including Anni Dreams of Biryani , A Taste of Honey , The Best Diwali Ever , and Bracelets for Bina's Brothers .