David Almond is a beloved author of picture books, novels, and graphic novels for children, including A Way to the Stars, illustrated by Gill Smith; Brand New Boy, illustrated by Marta Altés; The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers; My Dad's a Birdman and The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon, both illustrated by Polly Dunbar; The Tale of Angelino Brown, illustrated by Alex T. Smith; War Is Over, illustrated by David Litchfield; and many more. His many awards include a Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Children's Book Awards, an Eleanor Farjeon Award, a Michael L. Printz Award, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international prize for children's book authors. David Almond lives in England.

P.J. Lynch has won numerous awards, including the Mother Goose Award, the Christopher Award three times, and the Kate Greenaway Medal twice, first for The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski and again for When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest. He recently illustrated Eoin Colfer's Three Tasks for a Dragon and is the author-illustrator of The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower and The Haunted Lake. P.J. Lynch lives in Dublin.