Matt Hunt was born in Redditch, Worcestershire in 1988. Starting out as a fine artist, he graduated from the Birmingham School of Art, and from these roots, developed a love for children’s illustration. He currently shares a house with his wife Hayley and two cats. Matt works in mixed media, utilising paint, pens, crayons, and digital. He loves to create new and interesting characters and write stories for them. He’s influenced by old movies, classic illustration, cartoons and books.

Prize-winning illustrator Edward Underwood is one half of the design duo that makes up Lisa Jones Studio. Edward and Lisa have been creating homewares and greetings cards together for twenty years and are known for their witty, graphic images. They live with their son in a converted mill on the edge of the South Downs.

Ingela P Arrhenius graduated from art school in the early 90s and has been working as an illustrator ever since. At first, she worked in advertising and magazines, but her focus over the past ten years has been on products and books.

Ingela has created patterns for fabrics, wallpaper and stationery, as well as packaging and home accessories. She has also collaborated with several toy producers around the world and her love of retro style, typography and colour is reflected in all her work. Ingela lives in Stockholm with her husband (an author) and two sons.

Peter Arrhenius is a screenwriter and an author located in Stockholm, Sweden. His first children’s book – The Penguin Quartet – was released in 1996 and was the first collaboration of many with the illustrator – then girlfriend, now spouse – Ingela P Arrhenius. Together, they have published over 15 titles to date.

Besides writing books and screenplays for film and television, Peter enjoys playing guitar and making music with his band One Sad Horse and watching football from the comfort of his own couch.

Janina Ramirez is a cultural historian who teaches at the University of Oxford. She went to school in Slough, England, is Polish and Irish, and married to a Spanish Scot. Janina fell in love with history on a visit to Hampton Court Palace in London when she was seven years old. Seeing a doorstep worn down by thousands of feet walking on it across centuries made her fascinating by people of the past.

Janina has written many books, some for adults and some for children. With a love of storytelling, she finds the best inspiration comes from looking back at the stories, people and ideas that inspired humans hundreds and thousands of years ago. Janina also presents documentaries on television and radio, which allows her to travel the world. But she is happiest at home with her family, four cats, three chickens and two hamsters.

Johnny Dyrander is an illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden. He was born and raised above the Arctic circle in northern Sweden and grew up surrounded by reindeer and northern light. He moved to Stockholm in his early twenties and began studying at various art schools. He’s been working as an illustrator since he finished his studies at the University College of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm.

When he’s not spending time in his office illustrating, Johnny likes to travel, spend time with his family or drive down to his house in southern Sweden, pick up a hammer and saw and pretend to be a carpenter. He builds things in wood with quite mixed results.

Margarita Kukhtina has loved drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. After graduating as a Master of Fine Arts, Margarita worked as a graphic designer, creating personal projects in her spare time that helped her find her true passion in illustrating children’s books. She works in mixed media, combining traditional and digital techniques to create playful and atmospheric illustrations.

Clare was a graphic designer for many years, creating packaging for Marks and Spencer and Boots, amongst others. For the last decade she has worked as a collage artist and has built up a loyal fanbase on Instagram with over 120k followers. She has published a number of paper-craft books, both for adults and children, including Animal Parade (Design for Today). Clare has four (now grown-up) children and lives on the sunny Kent coast with her husband and their dachshund, Otis. Instagram: @clareyoungs

Camilla Reid has written, conceived and edited children’s books for over twenty years.

Her titles for Nosy Crow as an in-house author include the Pip and Posy series (illustrated by Axel Scheffler), the Bizzy Bear series, (illustrated by Benji Davies), and the Felt Flaps series, (illustrated by Ingela P Arrhenius). Her titles for other publishers include The Littlest Dinosaur and the Naughty Rock (illustrated by Michael Foreman, Bloomsbury), the Seriously Cute series (illustrated by Katherine Lodge, Bloomsbury) and the Lulu series, (illustrated by Ailie Busby, Bloomsbury).

Lou Peacock loves words, stories and poems and has nearly thirty years of experience in children’s publishing. She is Nosy Crow’s Publishing Director at Large for Picture Books, and her own stories have been published in nearly 20 languages. Lou’s previous poetry anthology – the highly-acclaimed A Whale of a Time, illustrated by Matt Hunt – was a Waterstones Book of the Year in 2023 and also The Times book of the week. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and son and their small black fluffy dog called Lyra.

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.