Steve Smallman lives in Staffordshire with his wife and the two youngest of his four children. He has been illustrating books for over thirty years, and writing his own stories for the past five. Steve won the Sheffield Children's Book Award in 2009 with Smelly Peter - The Great Pea Eater. Tim Warnes shares a studio at his home in the Dorset countryside with his wife, illustrator Jane Chapman. Tim has been illustrating for over ten years and is best known for illustrating the Little Tiger books such as Little Tiger's Big Surprise! and I Don't Want to Go to Bed!