Julia Golding is the award-winning author of numerous books for children and adults, including The Diamond of Drury Lane, winner of both the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. A former British diplomat and Oxfam policy adviser, Julia also has a doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University, and was writer-in-residence at the Royal Institution in 2019. Her Jane Austen-themed podcast 'What Would Jane Do?' offers a 19th century take on modern life. She is the author of The Queen's Wardrobe, illustrated by Kate Hindley and Royal Animals, illustrated by Emily Sutton.

Emily Sutton is an artist and illustrator who has collaborated with the likes of Paddington creator Michael Bond, Jesse Burton and Kate Morton. As well as illustrating picture books and book covers she has designed everything from fabric to stationery to packaging, and she is also a highly skilled painter, sculptor and printmaker. As well as illustrating Royal Animals written by Julia Golding, she is the illustrator for William Sieghart's poetry collection Everyone Sang and acclaimed non-fiction books by Nicola Davis, Tiny, Lots and A First Book of the Sea.