Jeremy Strong used to be a primary school headteacher before he became a fulltime writer. He won the Children's Book Award with THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR-DOG and is immensely popular with children. He lives in Somerset, near Bath. Scoular Anderson lives and works in Dunoon, a seaside resort outside Glasgow. He studied Graphic Design at the Glasgow school of Art and then worked for a number of years as an art teacher in a large comprehensive school in central Scotland before becoming a full-time artist.