The Tree and The Dragon

Chris Riddell is one of the most awarded and refined illustrators, also known as a political cartoonist for The Observer. He was Waterstones Children’s Laureate from 2015 to 2017 and has won the Kate Greenaway Medal three times, the latest for his illustrations in The Queen in the Forest by Neil Gaiman. He has collaborated with authors such as Neil Gaiman and Paul Stewart and illustrated classics like Don Quixote and Gulliver’s Travels. He is the author of the Agata de Gotici and Ottoline series and co-creator of the Saga di Boscofondo. He is an ambassador for BookTrust and Amnesty International and lives in Brighton with his family.

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.