Sally Nicholls (Author) Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, the YA Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.Gosia Herba (Illustrator) Gosia Herba was born and raised in a small city of Olawa in southwest Poland. She started drawing as a child and is now a creator of books for children and graphic novels, as well as a freelance illustrator. For over 13 years she has been working for various publishers, magazines, music labels, and ad agencies, including: Google, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Monocle and Vanity Fair. She has 100k followers on Instagram @gosiaherba. Gosia lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland.

Sally Nicholls' humorous and informal text is well pitched for its target audience and she does a great job of cueing and supporting adults to read aloud with confidence