Author Julia was born in Stamford and trained as an architect. She loves the countryside and nature, finding it a pool of inspiration to draw on in her writing. Julia now lives in Gosport with her husband and three children. She has published 12 picture books, translated into many languages. Illustrator Lucia is an award winning children's book illustrator born and bred in Livorno, Italy. She moved to Australia in 2007 and she now lives and works on the beautiful Gold Coast. Lucia has collaborated with several top Australian and English Publishers and illustrated fifteen books, among which the CBCA Honour Book and Prime Minister Award shortlisted Come Down, Cat!, written by award winning author Sonya Hartnett, CBCA shortlisted Family Forest and the best selling series Our Australian Girl. The Ballad of Henry Hoplingsea will be Lucia's second book with Little Hare. Her first title, Together Always, was published in March 2016.