Adeola is a writer-illustrator from London. She is an obsessive doodler and lover of fantasy stories. She also writes her own graphic novels. She studied Computer Visualisation and Animation at Bournemouth University. Adeola works for an animation company as a Studio Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist.

The illustrator Belinda Chen has brought a wonderful authenticity and depth to this book, filling the scenes with symbols of the celebration including festival foods, bamboo, red money envelopes, firecrackers, the Chinese knot as well as two hidden Chinese characters to discover!

Belinda is now based in Yorkshire, but she grew up in a family-run ceramic factory in North Taiwan and speaks so wonderfully of her experience celebrating Lunar New Year:

I grew up in a big family that spoke a mixture of dialogues – Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka. Our family love celebrating all kinds of Chinese events and for me, Lunar New Year was always one of the highlights. There are lots of big family gatherings, feasts, receiving red envelopes from relatives, playing card games with cousins, watching colourful dragon dance parade on the street and when the New Year comes the fireworks would go all night long.

Now I live in UK with my family, we have a 6-year-old daughter. We try to recreate the spirit of LNY with family/friends. We make dumplings, write Chinese calligraphy, give each other red envelopes with good wishes for the new year. I am so excited to have had the opportunity to illustrate and share my experience of LNY.

Award winning illustrator Nina Chakrabarti grew up in Kolkata, India, and moved to the United Kingdom in her teens. She brings her joyful style and distinctive line quality to an eclectic range of commissioned work and has written several books for children, including the international bestseller ‘My Wonderful World of Fashion’. Taking inspiration from both the extraordinary and the often overlooked, Nina has created a series of illustrated books that invite both children to reflect on their relationships with all sorts of things – from fungi to fashion, from ancient pots to a childhood stamp collection. She lives and works in Hastings, on the south coast of England.

Georgie is a BookTrust-award-winning children’s book writer and illustrator who has also been longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She has made many books for children and lives in the characterful town of Lewes, near the south coast of England, with her husband, two sons and two cats.

Christopher Edge is an award-winning children’s author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His novel The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day won the STEAM Children’s Book Prize and his last four novels were all nominated for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an English teacher, editor and publisher – any job that let him keep a book close to hand – and he now lives in Gloucestershire with his wife and family, close to his local library.

Find out more about Christopher at christopheredge.co.uk and find him on Twitter @edgechristopher

Jules Howard is a zoology correspondent, author, science-writer and broadcaster. He writes for the Guardian, BBC Wildlife Magazine and Science Focus magazine and appears regularly on TV and radio, including Newsround and BBC Radio 5 Live. Jules’s popular non-fiction books for children include The Who, What, Why of Zoology, Respect the Insect and the bestselling Encyclopedia of Animals.

Frann’s first picture book, The Journey Home, was published in 2012 and was shortlisted for both the Waterstones Children’s Prize and the Cambridgeshire ‘Read it Again’ book Prize.

In 2011, she became the first UK recipient of the ‘Sendak Fellowship’ and spent a month living with and learning from Maurice Sendak.

She is one fifth of the design group Zombie Collective who specialize in workshops and pop-up galleries. They have worked with clients such as Tate Britain, the House of Illustration, the Design Museum, the British Library and UCL Hospital, creating workshops for both adults and children.

Kael Tudor writes books for kids. He began writing his own stories at a young age, inspired by the books he bought at school fairs and jumble sales. As an adult he still writes stories, but hopefully does a slightly better job of it. Kael lives in Port Talbot, South Wales.

PIU DASGUPTA was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) India, and grew up in India and the UK. She worked in several serious professions and places before following a long-nurtured dream to be a writer. She writes dark, twisty tales which she hopes will be enjoyed for all ages.

Mike is an author and journalist who lives in a nice village near Cambridge with his wife and daughter. He often has a pen behind his ear because he thinks it makes him look clever and busy, and he knows a very good song about dinosaurs. There’s No Such Thing as a Silly Question is his first book for children.

Maria Neradova grew up as the black sheep in a non-artistic family and decided to pursue a creative career. She is now a freelance illustrator and author, and has illustrated several children’s books. She lives in Bratislava, Slovakia.