Nicolette Jones, writer, literary critic and broadcaster, has been the children’s books reviewer of The Sunday Times for more than two decades. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and a nominee for the 2012 Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding service to the world of children’s books. Originally from Leeds, she studied at Oxford University, and at Yale as a Henry Fellow. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a signatory to Authors4Oceans, an honorary member of the Royal Naval Reserve Officers’ Dining Club and is involved in a number of literary, charitable and social initiatives. She is married to fellow writer and journalist Nicholas Clee, and they have two daughters. She lives in London, where she is known as a local community activist and sees a lot of theatre.

Adam started writing stories when he was at primary school, mostly about robot animals or magical gadgets. As an adult, he grew out of all that, preferring to write stories about magical gadgets or robot animals. When he’s not writing books, Adam works as a website producer, making (and sometimes playing) online games. Adam has been writing children’s books and poems for about seven years.

Michaela Clarke is a yoga teacher in London. She practises yoga and meditation but she also loves to sing and dance with her friends, paint pictures and go for long walks in nature.

We’d like to tell you all sorts of things about Odin Redbeard. We’d like to tell you he’s a Viking who likes to pillage in his spare time. We’d like to tell you he lives on a fjord where he fishes from his longboat. We’d like to tell you that he wears a horned helmet when he goes down to the supermarket. But we can’t tell you anything: Odin Redbeard is – you’ve guessed it – a pseudonym. His true identity must be kept secret…

David is best known for his popular picture books including Big Bear Little Bear, Mole’s in Love and It’s a George Thing, as well as The Team series of football fiction. When not visiting schools, libraries and festivals and generally doing the ‘author thing’, David likes to stay close to his home in north Norfolk, where he spends plenty of his time doing Tai Chi, swimming in the sea, writing, and thinking up new recipes to feed to his children (cinnamon egg is his newest hit)

Nikalas and Tim are the author/illustrator team behind the Mega Mash-Up series. They write and draw together and laugh a lot. They met when Nikalas, who was working as a designer, thought Tim would be a good illustrator for some books he was working on, and then found out that they lived across the road from one another in south-east London. A pint lead to an idea and an idea led to a partnership. With backgrounds in design, illustration and animation, Nikalas and Tim are developing their own brand of anarchic boysy humour and plan to take over the children’s book universe.

Nikalas and Tim are the author/illustrator team behind the Mega Mash-Up series. They write and draw together and laugh a lot. They met when Nikalas, who was working as a designer, thought Tim would be a good illustrator for some books he was working on, and then found out that they lived across the road from one another in south-east London. A pint lead to an idea and an idea led to a partnership. With backgrounds in design, illustration and animation, Nikalas and Tim are developing their own brand of anarchic boysy humour and plan to take over the children’s book universe.

Lucy worked as a children’s editor and bookseller before turning to full-time writing, and is the author of more than twenty-five titles for all ages. She lives in the countryside with her husband, two children, three lunatic dogs and ten thousand assorted books. Lucy would (secretly) like to be a pirate captain and sail the seven seas, but her family will only allow her to fly her inner Skull and Crossbones when the moon is blue, or on every seventy-fourth Wednesday. This sometimes makes her grimsome and growly.

Catherine and Laurence Anholt met when they were 18 years old. They went to art school together (Falmouth, the Royal College and the Royal Academy) and between them they have produced more than 200 children’s books, which are published in 30 languages around the world.

The Anholts’ books, which include Babies Love Books, the Anholt’s Artists Series and the Seriously Silly Stories, have won numerous awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award on two occasions.

The Anholts have been involved with many literacy projects including the government funded Book Start scheme and this work has taken them inside Buckingham Palace and Downing Street on several occasions. They have also visited schools all over the world.

Catherine and Laurence live and work in a sunny house with a big wild garden on top of a hill overlooking the sea near Lyme Regis. Here they have two studios, which are filled with paintings, sculptures and interesting things! Their three grown up children are Claire, who works for the UN in New York and twins, Tom, an artist in Berlin and Maddy, an actor in London.

TOOT Goes To Dinosaurland is the Anholts’ first book with Nosy Crow. You can find out more at Catherine and Laurence’s website here.

Catherine and Laurence Anholt met when they were 18 years old. They went to art school together (Falmouth, the Royal College and the Royal Academy) and between them they have produced more than 200 children’s books, which are published in 30 languages around the world.

The Anholts’ books, which include Babies Love Books, the Anholt’s Artists Series and the Seriously Silly Stories, have won numerous awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award on two occasions.

The Anholts have been involved with many literacy projects including the government funded Book Start scheme and this work has taken them inside Buckingham Palace and Downing Street on several occasions. They have also visited schools all over the world.

Catherine and Laurence live and work in a sunny house with a big wild garden on top of a hill overlooking the sea near Lyme Regis. Here they have two studios, which are filled with paintings, sculptures and interesting things! Their three grown up children are Claire, who works for the UN in New York and twins, Tom, an artist in Berlin and Maddy, an actor in London.

TOOT Goes To Dinosaurland is the Anholts’ first book with Nosy Crow. You can find out more at Catherine and Laurence’s website here.