Aidan Chambers worked for some years as a teacher before he and his wife, Nancy, founded the Thimble Press and published Signal, and a critical journal devoted to children’s literature. In 1982 Nancy and Aidan won the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and Aidan’s most recent title, Postcard From No Man’s Land (Bodley Head), won the Carnegie Medal in 2000.

Barbara Taylor has written and edited numerous books for children including Kingfisher’s Young Discoverers: Geography Facts and Experiments series.