Martin Jenkins is a conservation biologist and consultant for the WCMC, a UN organization concerned with conservation and the environment. He has won several awards for his work, including the 1998 TES Information Book of the Year Junior Award for The Emperor's Egg (9780744582215) and he is the reteller of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver (9781406301748), illustrated by Chris Riddell, which won the 2005 Kate Greenaway Medal. He lives in Cambridge. Brian Sanders is an acclaimed artist and paper engineer whose work includes postage stamps, detailed military scenes and the carousel pop-up book An Edwardian Doll's House. He lives in Cambridge with his illustrator wife, Lizzie.