Frank Cottrell Boyce is the current Waterstones Children's Laureate, appointed for the tenure of 2024-2026. His first book, Millions, won the Carnegie Medal and his many other awards include the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Frank is also a screenwriter, regularly collaborating with Michael Winterbottom and Danny Boyle, with whom he devised the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony. Frank has seven children and lives in Liverpool.

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When Cate James was little she copied pictures from books all the time and she still has a picture of a crocodile that she drew when she was two. She lives in Australia.

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Chris Riddell is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and occasional writer of children's books. Chris was appointed the UK Children's Laureate in 2015, a role which he used to promote the joy of drawing, doodling and telling stories. He lives in Brighton and works as a political cartoonist for The Observer.