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Kelly Ward-Wills Author

Kelly Ward-Wills is a writer and children’s book editor. Her fiction, poetry, and journalism have appeared in various publications across Canada. Her short fiction has won the Lush Triumphant Award for Fiction and appeared in The Journey Prize Stories: The Best of Canada’s New Writers. She is the author of one collection of short stories, Keep it Beautiful as well as What Dwells in the Deep?  the first book in the Yikes! series. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.


Steve James is originally from a small village in North Yorkshire, but he now lives on the outskirts of the vibrant city of Leeds with his partner and their daughter. There are lots of arty folk in Steve’s family, so it was only natural that he should have a love for drawing from a young age, taking his early influence from the Beano and Dandy comics to Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons. When Steven isn’t illustrating, he likes to see live music, watch films, play video games, take walks in the countryside and play guitar.