Escape from . . . Pompeii

Ben Richmond is the author of ten children’s books on animals, the environment, and history. He has worked as a science journalist and now writes for Afropop Worldwide, a public radio program about music from Africa and the diaspora. When he isn’t writing, he is playing guitar or riding his bike around Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and their dog Lua.

Nigel Chilvers was born and raised in Aintree, just outside Liverpool, UK. After completing an Art Foundation at Hugh Baird College, he went on to study Illustration at Wolverhampton University. He originally trained as a paper-based artist until switching over to digital work in 1997. Since then, he has worked for many years freelancing in licensing, working on many character-based books for Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, Noddy, and much more. In his spare time, if he’s not training for triathlons, he can be found climbing the fells of the Lake District or the North Welsh mountains.