Barry Timms is an award-winning author who enjoys the way books bring people together. He grew up in the rugged Cornish landscape but now lives by a South London water tower and is a city boy at heart. Barry can often be found with pencil in hand, writing or drawing or both. Most exciting of all is putting words and images together, and the surprising results that can happen. Barry likes road movies, ghost trains and exploring forgotten side streets. His books for Macmillan include the hilarious Ten Bottoms series.Marion Billet grew up in France and studied children's book illustration at the Emile Cohl School. Marion is widely published, with numerous children's books published in many different countries. These include the Whizzy Wheels series and extremely popular London range. Her illustrations have also appeared in magazines, on stationery and toys, and on children's furniture and clothes. Marion currently lives in LA with her family.