Adam and Charlotte Guillain met in Zanzibar while working with Voluntary Services Overseas. When they returned to the UK, Charlotte worked in publishing and Adam became writer-in-residence at the Roald Dahl Museum before co-founding Storytelling Schools, an international organisation dedicated to training teachers in oracy, literacy and creativity. Then they began writing picture books together! They are best known for Spaghetti with the Yeti and Pizza for Pirates.