Emma Shoard is an illustrator and printmaker who graduated in 2011 from Kingston University's Illustration & Animation course. She also works part-time as a bookseller for Daunt Books. Emma has twice been longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for her work on Siobhan Dowd's The Pavee and the Buffer Girl and Mal Peet's The Family Tree.

Mal Peet's many honours for his work include the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He was best known for his young adult fiction, including Keeper, Tamar and Exposure. In 2017, his novel Beck - completed after his death by his good friend Meg Rosoff - was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Mal passed away in 2015.Emma Shoard is an illustrator, printmaker and Daunt bookseller who graduated in 2011 from Kingston University's Illustration & Animation course. In 2018, Emma was longlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway medal for her artwork in Siobhan Dowd's The Pavee and the Buffer Girl.

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