Karen Wallace is the author of more than 90 books, including Think of an Eel, which won the Emil Kurt Maschler Award and the TES Junior Information Book Award. Karen also writes for children's television. She lives with her husband, novelist Sam Llewellyn; two sons, Will and Martin; and two Maine Coon cats, Cougar and Dave, in Herefordshire, England. Nicki Palin is an accomplished illustrator whose work has been short-listed for the Mother Goose Award and the Kate Greenway Medal.