Jude Daly, was born on 24 August 1951 in London, UK. In 1953 her family immigrated to South Africa where she spent her childhood in Fish Hoek, Cape Town.. She attended the Star of the Sea Convent in St James, Cape Town and matriculated from Springfield Convent, Wynberg, Cape Town. She then attended the Cape Technical College but didn?t complete her course in Graphic Design. "In retrospect it was a good thing as it meant I never mastered being slick and I hope my work reflects this".

Dubravka Kolanovic studied Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Her career as an illustratopr began at the age of eighteen when she won the Golden Award for her first picture book at the 'Written and Illustrated by' competition in the USA. Since then she has illustrated more then thirty picture books which can be found in Europe, Australia, Japan and America. Dubravka has also produced the UNICEF cards and posters. She lives in Zagreb, Croatia with her husband and son.

Having had a passion for drawing since she was a child, Karin Littlewood eventually trained and qualified as an illustrator. For the past five years she has focused mainly on children's books, and has become hugely popular with her distinctive watercolour artwork style. Karin lives in London with her partner, Robin Heighway-Bury, and a very friendly cat!

I grew up in Norwich, sketching my family's pet cats and dogs constantly. My favourite subjects at school were always art and sport; any sport but lacross (I still don't understand that game!?). I apparently used to draw pictures for my favourite teachers!!!

I did a foundation course in art and design at the local art college; I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do- I just loved drawing! I totally failed my graphics and illustration module and had to re-do it -- lucky for me as I got a great mark the second time round and decided I quite liked it! By the time I had realized that illustration was what I wanted to do, it was far too late to apply for it at the universities, so I got on a new "combined course". It took me a year to be able to swap to the Illustration course and as soon as I did, my grades rose and I was so much happier!

I graduated in 2000, quite proud of myself. Since then I have been happily painting away, working mostly on children's books. My first picture book is out and I am currently attempting to write a children's story.

My long-term boyfriend, David and I bought a house at the begining of the year and are slowly trying to make it more homely, with the aid (or not) of our lovely, funny litte cat, Mooki (our baby!). I have also started to get extremely exited about growing our own vegetables.