Kate Peridot is an author of both fiction and non-fiction children's stories who lives with her family in the south of France. In 2014, her children's story The Elephant Carniva , won a Walker Books Animal Stories competition for 4-7-year-olds. In 2015 she won the Winchester Festival, First Pages of a Novel award for a YA concept. Her debut non-fiction, Caring Conservationists, published in 2023. Her other books include What do bees do in winter? Dawn Cooper is an illustrator based in a leafy suburb of Bristol, UK. Her work includes non-fiction books for children, book covers, maps and packaging, all heavily inspired by the natural world and its many creatures, as well as traditional botanical drawings and works of fiction. she has illustrated books including Up and Down and What do bees do in winter?.