Louise Ho graduated from the University of Central Lancashire in 2003 with a BA Hons. in Illustration. Her hobbies include drawing, collecting fossils, trying to avoid the temptation to overfeed her pet fish, and learning to read in Chinese and Japanese. She has a large number of cousins and several large puppy-like koi fish in a pond that have a tendency to mow down the resident goldfish when food is involved. She lives with her parents in NW England, somewhere in the axis of St. Helens, Warrington, Manchester, and Liverpool. Gill Lewis lives with her husband, three young children and a motley crew of various pets in Somerset. A childhood fascination with anything that crawled, swam or flew led to a career as a vet. Gill began to write and illustrate stories for her own children, inspired by traditional folk-tales and ancient mythologies.