Sophie Dahl is the bestselling author of four books for adults, and three for children, and the writer of two BBC2 prime-time shows. Sophie's first book for children, Madame Badobedah, was published by Walker Books in 2019. Her second, The Worst Sleepover in the World was published in November 2021. Madame Badobedah was nominated for a Greenaway Medal, selected as one of both The Guardian's and The Sunday Time's Children's Books of the Year in 2019, and in the US, it was one of Amazon.com's Best Children's books of 2020, and was awarded both a Junior Library Guild of America and a Parent's Choice Gold Award. The sequel to Madame Badobedah, Madame Badobedah and The Old Bones was published in October 2023.
Dahl has written non-fiction essays for US Vogue, Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times. She has judged the Women's Prize for Fiction and Vogue's Young Talent Contest. She is also a contributing editor and monthly columnist at House and Garden magazine.

Lauren O'Hara is an illustrator from the north of England. She collaborates with her writer sister Natalia, and together they have been published by Penguin Random House, Macmillan and Walker Books. Lauren has twice been nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway award, her book Madame Badobedah with author Sophie Dahl was a Guardian book of the year and Frindleswylde by Natalia O'Hara was awarded the Children's Books Ireland Illustration Honour award (2022) award.