Jenny Løvlie grew up in Northern-Norway on Ekkerøy, a tiny peninsula sticking out into the Barents Sea, where she was the first child to be born in 12 years. Summers were spent in the great outdoors under the never-setting sun, climbing rocks, watching the seagull-chicks hatching and rock-pooling and the dark winters reading, drawing and making.

Jenny studied Illustration & Animation at Kingston University in London, and graduated with a BA Hons in 2014. Her love of nature shines through in her work and she draws inspiration from the wild landscapes of Scandinavia, nordic folklore and Scandinavian design. She uses bold colours, interesting textures and strong shapes in creating landscapes, people and animals. Jenny is fascinated by the strong bond between humans and animals and the link between humans and nature. Jenny’s favourite things are going on adventures in her van, camping, bird-watching, cooking and reading.

Fred Small is a singer-songwriter, activist and Unitarian Universalist minister. He originally trained as a lawyer but left his job to pursue a career in music. In 1983, Fred wrote his classic song “Everything Possible”. Recorded and made famous by the iconic gay male a cappella group the Flirtations, the song has travelled around the world. Fred is a passionate advocate for equality, inclusion and environmental justice. He and his family live
near Boston in the USA.

Alison Brown grew up in Northern Ireland and studied Fine Art in Liverpool, England. Before becoming a full-time illustrator and writer, she did many other jobs, including teaching, working in a bookshop, and as a designer in an advertising agency. Alison’s books have been translated into fifteen languages. She was so inspired by the lyrics and message of “Everything Possible” that she knew she had
to illustrate it! Alison lives with her family in Leeds.

Karl Newson is a children’s book author and illustrator from London. He takes inspiration from songs and books and people and everything! His favourite things are elephants, stars and his two mini Mudwafflers. His least favourite thing is mashed potato – bleurgh! In his spare time he enjoys walking and listening to music from the 1960s (and singing along – badly – to them), and biscuits.

Rosalind Beardshaw is the illustrator of several books for Nosy Crow, including the bestselling When a Dragon Comes to Stay and I See the Moon.

She loves creating new characters, especially if they can be based loosely/wholly on her shaggy lurcher, Basil.

She lives in York with her partner, Al, daughter, Iris, and young son, Freddie, who loves watching Calamity Jane.

Chris is originally from Bradford and studied illustration and graphic design at Bradford College of Art. In 2000 he moved to France where, amongst other things, he was an English teacher before working in newspaper layout and design.
When his children were small he realised he loved the picture books he read to them, sometimes even more than his children did – the Picture Book Bug had truly bitten.
Chris has since written and illustrated several books and is currently thinking about the next one, probably with a cuppa in hand at home near Limoges.
He likes listening to and making music, wandering around the countryside, a bit of running and riding a bike. His favourite season is autumn and his favourite colour is green.

Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer. Her debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Her subsequent novels have been much acclaimed and frequent visitors to prize lists.

Patrice was born in Brighton, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the South Coast.

Patrice was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021.

Camilla Sucre, a Trinidadian-American artist who resides in Baltimore, has found a different kind of home in narrative illustration. Interested in illustration since she was a child, her dreams are finally coming true as she loves to explore new avenues of artmaking and illustration and new stories to tell.

Camilla also has a passion for film and a natural love of movies and hopes she can one day express that in her work. Her favourite film is currently ‘The Red Shoes’, an old movie – which is very fitting because she loves old things!

Caspar Salmon is a writer who lives in leafy north London, having grown up in picturesque France. He writes and broadcasts about this and that for a living – mostly cinema – and enjoys seeing friends, swimming, and reading. He has two gorgeous children.

Ekaterina Trukhan creates illustrations for children’s books, magazines and products. She is also the author of several children’s books. She graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in London and now she lives the digital nomad life, travelling with her husband and their dog.

Yas Imamura is an Asian American illustrator living in Portland, Oregon.

Her works include collaborations with Anthropologie, Sanrio as well as her growing list of children’s books. Her preferred materials are gouache and watercolour and often finds herself drawn to projects that are playful, mysterious and a little offbeat.

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.