In another life, Danny Parker worked as a nurse, an actor and an undertaker before settling into work as a drama teacher, and now writer. His first picture book, Tree, was published in 2012, and he’s now authored 5 (and counting) multiple award-winning picture books. Freya Blackwood was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Australia, where she now lives with her daughter Ivy. She began illustrating picture books in 2002 and has since been shortlisted for, and won many prestigious awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2010 for Harry and Hopper.