Martin Jenkins has written many groundbreaking non-fiction books for Walker: Can We Save the Tiger?, The Story of Money and Ape to name a few. He has won several awards for his writing including the TES Information Book of the Year Junior Award for The Emperor's Egg, and he is the re-teller of Don Quixote and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver, both illustrated by Chris Riddell. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver won the 2005 Kate Greenaway Medal. Martin lives in Cambridge. Richard Jones grew up in the Midlands but moved to Devon to study illustration at the University of Plymouth and never went home again. He is also the illustrator of Bird Builds a Nest in Walker's Science Story Book series.