Lucy Rowland grew up in Cheltenham and gained a degree in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Reading before becoming a children's speech and language therapist in South London where she now lives. Lucy has loved reading and listening to poetry from a young age and has turned her passion into writing picture book stories with quirky characters and irresistible rhythms – as seen in Jake Bakes a Monster Cake, Pirate Pete and His Smelly Feet and Little Red Reading Hood.

Monika Forsberg is a Swedish illustrator living in London. She is known for her surface pattern designs and colourful, striking style, and has created work for John Lewis, Anthropologie, Quarto, Penguin Random House, Unicef, Anna Sui, and Liberty. Night Night Sleep Tight is her first series for Macmillan Children's Books.