William Horwood is the author of several novels, including the critically acclaimed Duncton trilogies and several sequels to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (including The Willows in Winter. He lives outside of Oxford.
Patrick Benson won the Mother Goose Award for his illustration of William Mayne's Hob Stories. He has illustrated more than twenty books, including Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Mole and the Baby Bird by Marjorie Newman, a Christopher Award winner.