Kes Gray is the author of the award-winning Eat Your Peas, Really, Really and Who's Poorly Too? Kes is also the author of Our Twitchy, illustrated by Mary McQuillan, and Billy's Bucket, illustrated by Garry Parsons. He works as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi and Saatchi and lives in Essex with his wife and children. Nick Sharratt has written and illustrated many books for children. He has illustrated all Jacqueline Wilson's prize-winning children's novels as well as books written by Jeremy Strong, including The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog, which won the 1997 Children's Book Award. He also produces illustrations for the magazines Playdays and cosmopolitan. He lives in Brighton.