Biographical note

Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton. Having read English at Birmingham University, she spent the next nine years teaching in schools in the East End of London before leaving teaching to write full-time. Her first children's book A Medal for Malina was published in 1990, and since then Narinder has written hundreds of stories for different age groups. Narinder lives in Shropshire with her husband Robert and their five cats. Sonny is a huge fan of pink, a cow enthusiast, but probably more importantly, a disabled illustrator based between London and Kent. They specialise in the accurate design of disabled characters, and have worked writing and illustrating children's books with an emphasis on disability representation. Growing up disabled, they noticed the shocking lack of disability representation, leading to their emphasis on diversity in illustration, so everyone can see themselves in these books.