Chris Butterworth is the award-winning author of many children's non-fiction books, including Lunchbox: The Story of Your Food; Seahorse: the Shyest Fish in the Sea, Just One Peaceful Pond and Just One Pine Tree. Seahorse won the 2007 John Muir prize for excellence in natural history writing in the USA, and Lunchbox was the American Farm Bureau's Book of the Year in 2011. Chris lives in Penzance, Cornwall.

Kate Nelms graduated from the University of the West of England in 2010 with a BA in Illustration. She is passionate about natural history and spent her childhood recording the animal world around her. Kate lives in Bristol.