Sarah Gibb is a British illustrator who grew up in Bickley, just outside London. She gained a BA in Graphic Design from Central St. Martins and an MA in Illustration from the University of Brighton.

Working from her studio at home, Sarah has illustrated dozens of children’s books including Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast. Her distinctive, elegantly detailed and contemporary classic style has been on book covers, including the famous Emily Windsnap and Tiara Club series and Sue Townsend’s back catalogue, national magazines, cards, packaging and advertising. Over the years she has worked with numerous clients including Harrods, Vogue, Elle, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Orion, Harper Collins, Orchard and Crabtree & Evelyn.

Sarah lives in London with her husband and two children. When she’s not illustrating, she loves going on adventures with her kids, travelling, and exploring castles, historic homes and buildings. She’s always on the lookout for beautiful design to influence her work or to fill her house.

Barry Hutchison is an award-winning children’s author and screenwriter, currently hiding up a mountain in the Highlands of Scotland. Since landing his first children’s book publishing deal in 2008, Barry has toured extensively around UK schools, sharing his love of reading and stories about weeing in the kitchen sink with pupils of all ages. He has a passion for encouraging reluctant boys to pick up a book, and in 2013 was appointed as Scotland’s third Patron of Reading, becoming the first man to hold the position.
A lifelong fan of funny books, Barry loves making readers laugh with his unique brand of comedy. He lives with his wife, Fiona, and his children, Kyle and Mia, none of whom appreciate his jokes in the slightest.

Thomas Flintham studied BA Fine Art at De Montfort University and in 2009 he graduated with a distinction in his Masters degree in Illustration at Camberwell College of the Arts, South London.

Thomas works digitally, drawing straight into his computer with his Wacom tablet, and in the old fashioned way on paper with brush and ink and drawing pens. He loves to draw and doodle. He has a very loose grip on reality, and enjoys disappearing into his own imagination in search of new characters, worlds and ideas to draw.

His work is influenced by his interest in all kinds of books, films, comics and Japanese video games. He loves Christmas and chocolate. He owns (almost) too many books.

Lily Dyu lives in a Welsh valley. Growing up, she wanted to be a writer then an astronaut. Her favourite things are running in the mountains, camping wild and watching the night sky. Through her writing, she loves to tell true stories about people from all over the world. Maybe one day she’ll still make it into space.

Sarah Massini has had a varied creative career as a corporate graphic designer, a children’s book art editor, and now as the acclaimed illustrator of many picture books including The Velveteen Rabbit and The Little Prince. She lives in Sussex in the United Kingdom with her ecologist husband and her Scottie-dog Coco.

Tracey grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemical works.

She’s a trained teacher, but now writes full-time in an old damp cottage in a valley in the woods. A multi award-winning author, her first book was published in 2010, and in October 2021, her 72nd.

Her passion for nosing into other people’s ‘stories’ began in early childhood, thanks to an ancient set of encyclopaedias and a Ladybird copy of Cinderella.

Then one special teacher and many great librarians fed Tracey more and more books. Between their pages real magic started to happen. Impossible became plausible. Characters became friends. Boundaries became gates as slowly her world opened up. Books made her laugh, and cry, and think.

They made her feel that maybe she could do things…

Elly Jahnz is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Falmouth, Cornwall. Formerly a designer for fashion brand Seasalt Cornwall, she now works with a range of clients all over the world on everything from magazine and newspaper editorial to books, packaging and shop signage.

Holly was brought up in beautiful Dumfries & Galloway, where living on a farm nurtured a fascination with and love of animals, which continues to feed her work as an artist and illustrator today. Since graduating from Edinburgh School of Art in 2003, Holly has worked as an artist and illustrator, and has been published by Walker Books, HarperCollins Children’s Books, and Nosy Crow. Holly lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, three young children, Marbles the dog, six beautiful bantams and one very noisy cockerel called Mr Sprinkles.

Natalie is a Franco-American New Yorker who has had many jobs- from scrubbing pots and selling dolls to exterminating rats and singing in Japan. But these don’t come anywhere near the peculiar jobs in her debut book “Incredible Jobs You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of”.

Now Natalie is doing what she loves most: animating, illustrating, writing and most importantly, staying far, far away from rodents. Obsessions include: spooky podcasts, useless facts and overheard conversations.

Jan Fearnley is the award-winning author-illustrator of Mr Wolf’s Pancakes, Harry and the Jaggedy Daggers and Milo Armadillo among many others.
Jan lived in London for many years and now lives in the French countryside with her writer husband, Paul, two cheeky donkeys, five irrepressible rescued goats, who are known as ‘The Horn Section,’ two cheese-obsessed Limousin hens, five naughty cats – and any other waif and stray who appears at the kitchen door. Edgar and the Sausage Inspector is Jan’s first picture book with Nosy Crow. The real Edgar sleeps on a cushion on Jan’s drawing table, and he thinks it’s only right that Nosy Crow are making a story about him . . .

David is more commonly known as Dave. However, he’ll always be David to his Mum and to his partner Jo when he’s been particularly naughty. After many jobs in many different fields, he made the life-changing decision to do an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at The Cambridge School of Art. David graduated in 2015, winning the Sebastian Walker Award for most promising student, and is now living the dream making picture books as his proper full-time job! His first book, Have You Seen Elephant?, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize. David currently resides in the wilds of Northamptonshire with Jo, his son Teddy and their over-affectionate cat Sofia.

Greg Gormley used to stuff cushions for a living. Then he learnt how to purify gold. Finally, he decided to do something more sensible. So he studied fine art. Greg has written and illustrated several picture books and was featured in the Oprah Winfrey Kids’ Reading List. He lives in Cambridge with Ana, Pepa and Sid the dog and spends his time arguing with academics about robots.