Anna Brooke (Author) Anna Brooke has been a Paris-based travel journalist for seventeen years, writing for the Sunday Times Travel magazine and The Times, and has also authored seven guidebooks on France for Frommer’s. Her debut novel was a SCBWI Undiscovered Voices winner and longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award. When not writing, she has been an actress, a cabaret singer and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.Lauren Lowen (Illustrator) Lauren Lowen graduated from the Illustration Department at The Rhode Island School of Design before she started illustrating for magazines and books. After teaching illustration and working in the giftware and stationery industry, she returned to illustrating while teaching at the Watkins College of Art and Design. She enjoys creating quirky, silly characters in art full of colour and texture, and describes her work as “whimsically awkward and awkwardly whimsical”. Lauren loves eating sushi, and lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.

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