Wendy Meddour grew up in a little seaside town called Aberystwyth. After getting her PhD, she went to teach English Literature at Oxford University, and now teaches creative writing at the University of Exeter. Her debut children’s book, A Hen in the Wardrobe, was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for ‘Outstanding First Novel’, selected as one of The Guardian’s ‘Best 50 diverse Children’s Books since the 1950s’ and won the John C Laurence Award for ‘improving relations between the races’. Wendy has gone on to become an internationally best-selling children’s writer, with books translated into 18 languages and featured on CBBC Newsround, Cbeebies Bedtime Story and BBC Woman’s Hour. Earlier this year, Wendy was awarded the Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Literature, and one of her latest picture books, Lubna and Pebble (illustrated by Daniel Egneus), was selected by Time Magazine as one of the ‘Best 10 Books of the Year’.

Daniel Egneus’ illustrations live in a lucid, vibrant dreamscape. Daniel sees everyday life and arts as one inseparable whole. He has won awards for his collaborations with BMW Drambuie whiskey, and the Pori Jazz Festival. He illustrated a series for the re-issue of four of Neil Gaiman’s seminal works and was also sent on assignment to Havana to cover chanel’s resort collection for Departures magazine. Daniel has lives internationally in Prague, London, Berlin, Bologna, Rome, and Milano. he now calls Athens his home.