Linda Sunderland was a primary school teacher for 28 years in the North of England. In retirement, she began writing stories for her grandchildren and in 2014 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Since then she has continued writing picture books for children, publishing her first, `Raven Child and the Snow Witch' in 2016 and her second, `The Kiss' in 2019. Linda loves astronomy, travelling, reading, and conversations with interesting people. Jessica Courtney-Tickle is a freelance illustrator currently based in rural Cambridgeshire. She graduated from Kingston University in July 2014 where she found a specialism in picture book illustration. Her work combines vibrant colours with lots of detail and many different, quirky characters. Her love of nature and greenery can be seen in her illustrations of foliage which accompany much of her work.