Teresa Bellón was born in Albacete, Spain in 1987. After completing an illustration course in Madrid, she began working for national and international clients and has had several exhibitions of her art. Teresa doesn’t stay at home waiting for inspiration; she sets out to find it by travelling, buying illustrated books and walking around her home town of Madrid.
Sufiya Ahmed was born in India and arrived in the UK as a baby. She lived in Bolton, Lancashire, before moving to London where she still lives. Sufiya has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons, but is now a full-time author. In 2010 Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children.
Tatiana is a Russian illustrator who works all over the world. Despite graduating with a degree in architecture, she discovered that her true passion is illustration. Her main focus is illustrating children’s books, and when she is not drawing, she finds joy in gardening, reading, and exploring the woods with her husband and her two funny dogs.
Steven Butler is the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award-winning author of THE NOTHING TO SEE HERE HOTEL as well as THE DIARY OF DENNIS THE MENACE series and THE WRONG PONG series, which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He wrote the hit 2015 World Book Day title, WORLD MENACE DAY, as well as regularly hosting World Book Day’s The Biggest Book Show on Earth, which takes place every year to celebrate the event. Steven grew up in Kent, but now lives in London.
Steven hails from Cheshire where he spent many a school holiday working in the family pom-pom factory, packing poms and designing new products. Since leaving the factory he gained a BA and MA in Animation and has become a successful animator and art director within the realms of children’s television. Steven’s main ambition has always been to be a children’s book maker and he has recently been shortlisted in the Waterstone’s ‘Picture This’ Children’s Book Illustration Competition. Five Christmas Penguins is his first picture book with Little Tiger Press.
Sue Mongredien has written over one hundred books, including the Oliver Moon and The Secret Mermaid series. She has also written the Kitten Club series for Stripes Publishing. Sue lives in Bath with her husband and three children.
Susana is an illustrator from Barcelona, Spain. She studied illustration and comics, later receiving a postgraduate degree for Children's Publications from the Eina University School of Design in Barcelona. Her work has appeared in early reader books, educational manuals, children's magazines and non-fiction books. Her art features bright colours and dynamic characters. She is inspired by nature and her son, and lives with him and her husband in a small village in the countryside, not far from Barcelona. When she's not drawing she really enjoys traveling, reading, playing with her son and having family meals. She is a quiet person who enjoys the little things in life.
When not immersed in children’s books, Suzanne Chiew loves painting, playing the piano and long walks on the beach.
Suzy Senior lives and works at the top of a huge hill in Sheffield. She lives with her family, a small gang of tropical fish and quite a lot of books.
She loves writing picture books, making things rhyme and eating jaffa cakes – ideally all at the same time!
Swapna’s debut novel, DAVE PIGEON, was selected for the Guardian’s Best New Children’s Books 2016 and shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award 2016. Swapna lives in New Zealand with her son, her husband and Archie the mini schnauzer.
