Linda Schwalbe studied illustration at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and at the Berlin University of Arts. She is the author-illustrator of Ida and the World Beyond Mount Kaiserzipf, for which she won the Serafina Young Talent Award. Inspired by discoveries and adventures, music and nature, she is happiest painting with acrylics. She lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.

David Henry Wilson was born in London in 1937. As well as being a translator, he is a playwright and children’s author, best known for his Jeremy James books. He lives in Somerset, England, and has two surviving children and three grandchildren.