Michael Rosen is an eminent writer, broadcaster, poet, and performer who has received many prestigious awards. His books include A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young and Giggly Wiggly: Playtime Rhymes, both illustrated by Chris Riddell; We're Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury; Bananas in My Ears and Michael Rosen's Sad Book, both illustrated by Quentin Blake; This Is Our House and I'm Number One, both illustrated by Bob Graham; Red Ted and the Lost Things, illustrated by Joel Stewart; Tiny Little Fly, illustrated by Kevin Waldron; and Totally Wonderful Miss Plumberry, illustrated by Chinlun Lee. A former British Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen lives in London.

Chris Riddell is an award-winning illustrator, a writer of children's books, and a political cartoonist. He is the illustrator of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver, retold by Martin Jenkins, as well as A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young and Giggly Wiggly: Playtime Rhymes, both by Michael Rosen. The winner of three Kate Greenaway Medals and a former British Children's Laureate, Chris Riddell lives in Brighton, England.