Steve Smallman lives in Staffordshire with his wife and the two youngest of his four children. He has been illustrating books for over twenty-first years, and writing his own stories for the past two. Steve has written several best-selling books for Little Tiger Press. Cee Biscoe studied Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, gaining an MA in 2007. She lives in Suffolk with her husband and a small garden full of wildlife, many of which creep and crawl their way into her illustrations. Gruff the Grump is Cee's first book.

Steve Smallman lives in Staffordshire with his wife and the two youngest of his four children. He has been illustrating books for over twenty-first years, and writing his own stories for the past two. Steve has written several best-selling books for Little Tiger Press. Cee Biscoe studied Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, gaining an MA in 2007. She lives in Suffolk with her husband and a small garden full of wildlife, many of which creep and crawl their way into her illustrations. Gruff the Grump is Cee's first book.