Ann Coburn has written extensively for the stage and TV and is the author of several award-winning novels for older children, including Glint and the Borderlands Sequence. Ann was recently featured in Seven Stories, a TV series to be broadcast in mid-July 2006 on the local Grampian, Tyne Tees and Border networks. Ann lives in Northumberland. Garry Parsons is a multi-talented artist who has received great acclaim for his illustrations for Billy's Bucket by Kes Gray, which won the Red House Children's Book Award (Books for Younger Children) in 2004. He lives in south London.