Biographical note

Elli Woollard is an exciting talent on the picture books scene, who started writing stories after an embarrassing incident in which her youngest son broke Michael Rosen's glasses. In addition to picture books, she also writes children's poems. Her snappy rhymes, catchy rhythms and witty stories are sure to make her a huge success. Elli has written The Giant of Jum, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and The Dragon and the Nibblesome Knight for Macmillan, as well as the young fiction series Swashbuckle Li. Elli lives in London with her four children, her husband and two guinea pigs.


Marta Altés is the award-winning creator of My Grandpa, I am an Artist!, My New Home, The King Cat, Little Monkey and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. After studying Graphic Design in Barcelona. Marta moved to the UK to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Since graduating in 2011 she has won the Read It Again! Award, the Nottingham Children's Book Award and the Jack Ezra Keats New Illustrator Honour. Her first book No! was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Picture Book Prize, and has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award three times. Little Monkey was nominated in 2018, the same year it was also chosen as the Booktrust Time To Read campaign title. Marta lives in London with her partner and baby daughter, and Sam the dog.