Gerry Turley (Illustrator)
Gerry Turley studied Illustration at Glasgow School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. Since then he has worked in many areas of illustration. His first children's picture book, Woooo, was published by David Fickling Books (Random House) in 2014. His work was selected for the Bolonga International Children's Bookfair Illustrators Exhibition in 2012.

Catherine Barr (Author)
Catherine worked for Greenpeace for many years before becoming Editor at the Natural History Museum. She then worked with Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop and environmental organisations before moving to the Welsh
borders. Here she lives with her partner and two girls for whom she wrote her first book The Story of Life: a first book on evolution. Catherine is Patron of Reading at a local school and writes nonfiction stories to spark curiosity and love for the natural world. She happily visits schools around the country to run workshops inspired by her books.