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Sian Radford Author

Sian Radford is an author, content creator and former teacher. Her TikTok channel, @moonandrue, has an audience of 1.1 million followers. In 2024, her baby-led weaning cook book published and has been a bestseller across the TikTok shop. My Little Drummer is her first book for children, exploring her own experience of ADHD, as well as drawing on the experiences of her family who have lots of different ways of interacting with the world.

Gwen Millward is the illustrator of a number of popular, bestselling picture books, including Butterfly Brain, which channelled her passion for the natural world, Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular, The One Tiny Dot and Meet the Wildlings – one of several books that Gwen has written and illustrated. She is a winner of the BookTrust Early Years Award.