Janey is a writer, businesswoman and mother of three boys. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University and specialised in the Victorian novel. She became an English teacher and then, with her husband, set up The Jelly Club, which has become an extremely successful chain of children's activity centres in Scotland. (One of the Balamory episodes were filmed at a Jelly Club centre). Janey first published Princess Poppy herself (with her own illustrations) and the books were so popular that Random House Children's Books quickly bought and repackaged them. Veronica Vasylenko has illustrated many very popular books for Paragon and other publishers. She gained a BA in Graphic Design at Bradford and Liverpool Polytechnic which led her into the world of greetings card design and then book illustration. Veronica says that her favourite thing about illustrating picture books is inventing characters and bringing them to life through her illustrations. Veronica lives and works in the small market town of Otley in West Yorkshire, and in her spare time she enjoys long-distance cycling in the Yorkshire Dales with her partner.