Steve Bowkett began writing for pleasure in his teens and started to publish both fiction and educational books during his 20-year teaching career. He has so far published 81 titles. Since 1994, he has been a freelance fulltime writer, author visitor to hundreds of schools and an education consultant.

Tony Hitchman taught in primary schools for 35 years across the primary age range, culminating in 11 years as a primary head teacher. He has contributed artwork to a number of educational books/articles and has collaborated with Steve in creating three previous books published by Routledge.