Zeb Soanes is a trusted newsreader and comforting voice of the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. On television he launched BBC Four, where he presented the BBC Proms. He has written for The Observer, Country Life, and The Literary Review and his best-selling first book for children, Gaspard the Fox began a series of stories based on the real urban fox that visits him at home in London. He has become ‘the go-to person for music narration, specialising in children’s concerts’ (Daily Telegraph), performing favourite orchestral works including Peter and the Wolf, Babar the Elephant and Paddington.Anja Uhren is a storyteller - working with images as well as words to deliver narratives. Originally from Germany she now lives and works in the UK as a freelance illustrator, after graduating from the Arts University Bournemouth in summer 2015. Anja was chosen to illustrate one of the books in Nicola Davies's Shadows and Light series, Mother Cary's Butter Knife, which published in 2016.

Key Stage: KS2Subject area: Expressive Arts, Science and Technology, HumanitiesKey themes: Exploration, environment, music

Zeb Soanes is a trusted newsreader and comforting voice of the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. On television he launched BBC Four, where he presented the BBC Proms. He has written for The Observer, Country Life, and The Literary Review and his best-selling first book for children, Gaspard the Fox began a series of stories based on the real urban fox that visits him at home in London. He has become ‘the go-to person for music narration, specialising in children’s concerts’ (Daily Telegraph), performing favourite orchestral works including Peter and the Wolf, Babar the Elephant and Paddington.Anja Uhren is a storyteller - working with images as well as words to deliver narratives. Originally from Germany she now lives and works in the UK as a freelance illustrator, after graduating from the Arts University Bournemouth in summer 2015. Anja was chosen to illustrate one of the books in Nicola Davies's Shadows and Light series, Mother Cary's Butter Knife, which published in 2016.

Key Stage: KS2Subject area: Expressive Arts, Science and Technology, HumanitiesKey themes: Exploration, environment, music