Biographical note

Frances Stickley (Author) Frances is a primary school teacher who first realised her love for writing with the poem, 'My Dad's Milkfloat', when she was six. She is an award-winning academic, a trained children's literacy specialist, and winner of the Bloomsbury and National Literacy Trust short story prize 2017. She lives with her family and a big-eared dog in Derbyshire. And when she is not writing, you'll find her in the forest pretending to be a dragon with her daughters.Jessica Ciccolone (Illustrator) Jessica Ciccolone worked as a graphic designer for eight years before turning her hand to illustration. She graduated with Distinction from the MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art in 2022, and in the same year she won the Sebastian Walker Prize for Illustration and was highly commended for the V&A Illustration Awards. She is from Italy, but now based in London.