Ziggy Hanaor is a writer and publisher living in London. She is author of the V&A award-winning Alte Zachen (Cicada, 2022) and the Carnegie-nominated The Egg Incident (Cicada, 2024), as well as picture books including Fly Flies (Cicada, 2019), Alex and Alex (Cicada, 2022) and The Pocket Chaotic (Cicada, 2021). Cristóbal Schmal is a Chilean illustrator living in Germany. His tactile ink and watercolour style has garnered many prestigious clients, including the New York Times, LA Times, Greenpeace and Lufthansa. This is his first book.