Nia is currently the Creative Director at Nosy Crow and lives in London with her daughter, husband and cat. She has been designing books since 1993 but she has never written or illustrated one . . . until now. Inspired by her teenage daughter and her friends, Let’s Say Yes is her debut picture book. When Nia’s not designing books, she enjoys making wonky pottery, going to gigs and the occasional DJ stint. Her claim to fame was having her single played on Radio 1 in her native language of Welsh.

Angie was born into a big unruly family in Kent. Ever since she was little, all she ever wanted to do was to draw and paint and she still can’t quite believe her luck that she’s now allowed to do this all day and call it her ‘job’. Apart from illustrating picture books, Angie works with companies around the world to create illustrations for greeting cards, games, toys, puzzles, calendars and clothing. In 2017 she set up the brand PlanetCat® to license a range of her popular cat illustrations from her Instagram account: @angierozelaar. Angie and her family are now based in France, where they live in an old Normandy farmhouse alongside a growing menagerie of rescue animals, including cats, chickens and donkeys.

Tom Adams is a children’s author who juggles his time between writing books and making television programmes. He was born in Yorkshire but now lives in Kent with his wife and their three teenage sons. When he’s not at his desk writing, he’s often scribbling ideas for books and TV shows down in his notebook. He likes lots of sports, cooking, walking and playing the guitar but is slowly realising that his children are better than him at most of these things. He dislikes weeding the garden but does it anyway.

Isabelle Follath is a freelance illustrator living in Zurich, Switzerland with her husband and daughter, where she creates pictures for books and many other things. She loves drawing all sorts of characters, mixing colours and drinking an alarming amount of coffee. When she is not illustrating you can find her searching for the perfect vintage nib or trying rearrange her watercolours of which she has far too many.

Rachael Dean is a UK based freelance illustrator, who lives on the coast near Liverpool. She studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Liverpool John Moore’s University, and graduated in 2017 with a First Class Honours degree.

Rachael works traditionally painting images which are vivid and bold. She has a penchant for pattern but her real passion lies in the outdoors and travelling. She loves to gather inspiration from beautiful scenes of nature, which is often reflected in her work.

Rachael’s clients include Andersen Press, Chicken House, Nosy Crow, Egmont, Puffin and Penguin Random House US.

Jo has been illustrating for more years than she cares to remember. Originally from Norfolk she graduated from Loughborough College of Art, travelled the world for a bit, worked for design agencies in London and Nottingham before finally settling with her family in deepest, darkest Leicestershire. On the whole she prefers to illustrate people (and ponies of course) but her work is varied and adaptable and can be seen on a vast range of projects from children’s books, editorial design, educational publications to book jackets, advertising and packaging and most recently on Christmas 50p coins.

Jo loves the theatre and aims to keep fit by playing tennis enthusiastically but with varying degrees of success.

Sally was born in Newcaste and studied Graphic Design at Brighton. She is the author of Funny Face, Sunny Face, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw, and has also written a number of books with long-time collaborator Nick Sharratt, including The Gooey, Chewy, Rumble, Plop Book, winner of the Educational Writer’s Award. She lives in Sussex with her two children, a dog called Mabel, and an axe-wielding husband.

Lorraine Carey is the author of Cinderella’s Sister and the Big Bad Wolf. She was brought up in the Dorset countryside, a six mile cycle from the sea. Lorraine spent her early years digging for fairies in the back garden, and hoping upon hope that she’d wake up on Christmas morning to find a horse behind the settee. Her proudest moment was to wear a satin tutu, with ruffs, on a float in the town carnival, and she’s been hoping they’ll ask her to do it again ever since.
Lorraine now lives in London with her son Kassius, their cat Merlin, and an amazingly invincible fish named Bob. Whenever she can, Lorraine is back off down to the seaside for a paddle, even in the winter when it’s rough.

Tom Percival is a keen creative all-rounder (this is in no way the same thing as a jack of all trades – it just sounds like it). He enjoys writing, illustrating, animation, song-writing, music production and photography. He gets to do most of these things for what we should probably refer to as his ‘job’, and feels very lucky because of it.

Over the years, Tom has come to realise that all these disparate mediums are actually just telling stories – and that is where his passion lies. His passions, however, do NOT extend to writing bios in the third person. When he becomes wealthy and powerful, he will employ someone else to create bios for him and will never again sit wracking his brains for something interesting to say about himself.

Tom lives with his girlfriend and their two young sons in a house that stubbornly REFUSES to be renovated.