M Christina Butler was born in Scarborough. She had an idyllic childhood in the country where she spent her weekends playing on a farm among the animals. Christina has worked as a nurse, a pre-school nursery supervisor, and a governor at her local primary school, as well as writing a number of children's books. She now lives close to York. Gavin Scott lives

Tina Macnaughton was born in Edinburgh  in Scotland and raised in the south of England where she currently live in Surrey with her husband and daughter.   She  began her illustration training when she drew as a little girl every night in bed on a little chalk board until everything was blue, pink or yellow much to the frustration of her mother.  Her parents’