David Long is a highly acclaimed, internationally published author of non-fiction for both children and adults, whose engaging, imaginative and well-informed books reflect an unquenchable thirst for those events and personalities that illuminate the past. His book Survivors (Faber & Faber) won the Blue Peter Book Award 2017.

Allen Fatimaharan is the official 2022 World Book Day illustrator. Allen is also a FAB prize finalist whose debut picture book, My Hair (Faber, 2019), was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2020 and shortlisted for the BookTrust Storytime Prize 2020. He has also illustrated The Rapping Princess (Faber, 2021) and the middle-grade novel Llama Out Loud! (Egmont, 2020). He lives near Oxford, UK.