Elli Woollard (Author) Elli Woollard is a writer of picture books and older fiction for children, as well as a graduate in social anthropology. She has worked variously as a teacher of English as a foreign language, a copywriter, an editor and a freelance Thai to English translator. Dorien Brouwers (Illustrator) Dorien Brouwers grew up in the Netherlands and moved to the UK where she obtained a first-degree BA Hons in Graphic Design. Her work has been shortlisted for the illustrator's exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book fair and won a gold medal at the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. Alongside her picture books her clients have included the Prado Museum and Tate Modern.