Josh Styles Editor

Mary Auld is an award-winning writer of children's information books, most notably How To Build an Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra. Mary Auld is a pen name for Rachel Cooke, former Editorial Director at Hachette and an honorary fellow of the English Association in recognition of her work in children's non-fiction.

Dawn Cooper is a talented British illustrator with a passion for nature. She is also the illustrator of Little, Brown Nut in the Start Small, Think Big series. Her other recent books include Thirty Trillion Cells (Welbeck), Insect Emporium and Ocean Emporium (Egmont) and Up Close (Wren & Rook). She lives in Bristol, England.

Josh Styles MSc AMRSB MCIEEM who acted as a consultant for Fluffy, Flying Seed, has had a love wild plants from the age of 6 and is multiple award-winning ecologist. Today, Josh is the Botanical Specialist for a large ecology consultancy and runs his own conservation programme, hoping to improve the state of north-west England's wild plants, and our perception of them.