Sarah Tagholm

Sarah has a very unusual head. If she doesn't do creative things it falls off, so it's really incredibly fortunate she never had a job in data entry.

Mischievous children, nature, and all things bizarre are the inspiration behind her stories, which tend to be odd, ridiculous or, more often than not, both.

Sarah lives in Cornwall with her family, two cats and a fourteen year-old albino toad called Cuckoo (in real life).

If not reading or writing, she can usually be found in, or on or under the sea.

Sarah Tagholm's first book - The Scary, Funny and Utterly Memorable Wolves, in Helicopters - came out with Andersen Press in September 2022.

She has plenty more in the pipeline...

Sarah Tagholm's represented by The Catchpole Agency.

Jane McGuinness

Jane McGuinness is a Scottish illustrator and author who specialises in picture books. She was never the most outdoorsy child, but she deeply loved animals, trees and the natural world. (Some things never change!)

Having studied BA Illustration at the University for the Creative Arts in Kent, Jane later completed a Masters in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art.

Upon graduating from her MA in 2016, Jane was awarded the Sebastian Walker Prize and her debut picture book, Say Hi to Hedgehogs! (Walker Books, 2018), was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Award. Under the book's North American title, Prickly Hedgehogs! (Candlewick, 2018), it has been awarded an Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Honor and an International Literacy Association Primary Nonfiction Honor.