Peter Bently has always loved words and began his working life as a journalist before becoming an editor. When his children were born Peter started writing stories for children, and since then he has written over fifty children's books and won awards for them too, including the 2011 Roald Dahl Funny Prize for Cats Ahoy!. Peter lives with his family in Totnes where he once personally arranged for Santa to come and visit one of the local toy shops.
Anna Chernyshova trained in academic drawing in her birthplace of Russia before studying the prestigious MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. Anna was highly commended in the 2014 Macmillan Prize and has since illustrated several young fiction titles. Santa Selfie is her first picture book. Anna lives in Cambridge with her husband and young daughter who constantly inspires her book illustrations.