Born and raised in the north of England, Phil Earle is the author of numerous best-selling, award-winning books for children and teenagers. He has worked as a carer, a dramatherapist, a bookseller and a publisher, and loves talking at schools and festivals around the world. His novel When The Sky Falls won the British Book Award for Children's Fiction, was voted The Times Children's Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
He lives on the side of a very steep hill with his wife, their five children and two dogs.

Fred Fordham has written and illustrated for various publications. This includes adapting and illustrating the graphic novel version of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, again for a graphic novel, and illustrating Philip Pullman's debut graphic novel The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship.

Fred Fordham has written and illustrated for various publications. This includes adapting and illustrating the graphic novel version of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, adapting F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, again for a graphic novel, and illustrating Philip Pullman's debut graphic novel The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship.