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Francesca Gambatesa lives and works in London.
Her family comes from Southern Italy so she very much enjoys the best of two worlds.

She has been illustrating books since 2011, and has worked as an animator, designer and art director for animation studios in Italy and the UK for many years.

Her first picture book for HarperCollins is published in 2016 and she has also worked on books for Penguin Young Readers, Usborne books, Zanichelli Editore, and Cricket children literary magazine.

Louise Gardner graduated from Wolverhampton University with a BA Honours degree in Visual Communication. She has been an illustrator ever since, and her worked has appeared on children’s nightwear, mugs, soft toys, food packaging, tents and sleeping bags, as well as in children’s books. As a child, Louise was always armed with a felt tip pen – in fact, she once had to go to hospital to have a pen lid removed from her nose! She lives in Somerset in a converted church beside a canal.