Andy Jones is a performer, writer, and former member of the CODCO comedy troupe. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall, co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions.Among his numerous stage and film credits, Jones starred in, co-wrote, and co-directed the 1986 feature film, The Adventures of Faustus Bidgood. He has written five critically acclaimed one-man comedy shows, as well as Albert, a one-act play for one man and a budgie bird; The Lady with the Lapdog(a radical theatrical adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story); and the children's plays The Queen of Paradise's Garden, Jack Meets the Cat (co-written with the Sheila's Brush collective) and Jack-Five-Oh (co-written with Philip Dinn). Jones also writes children's books based on Newfoundland Folktales; Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves, won the Winterset award in 2013. "Katie Brosnan is an artist and graphic designer known for her lively and engaging illustrations. She graduated with distinction from the Cambridge School of Arts Book Illustration Program, and in 2019 published two picture books that she both wrote and illustrated: Keith Among the Pigeons, which was long-listed for the Klaus Flugge Prize honoring the most exciting young illustrators in the UK; and Gut Garden, which received the 2020 North Somerset Teachers' Book Award (Information Book Category) and was long-listed for the UKs School Library Association Award for Information Books (age 8-12) and . The illustrations for Barefoot Helen and the Giants are her first collaboration with a Canadian press; they are unlikely to be her last. Katie lives in Northamptonshire, UK, with her husband and a cat named Jethro. "