Ian Long is an illustrator who has worked with Pip all of his adult life, drawing, creating and visualising ideas that they have imagined together since the early 1980s. He has been a youth and pastoral worker in Gloucestershire, a primary school teacher in West Sussex and Hampshire, a carer for his father who suffered with Alzheimer's and is now working full-time on books.

Pip Wilson is the author of over 50 books and the famous Blob Tree tools, which can open the hardest heart and are able to open up meaningful communication in all cultures and contexts.