About the Author

Sam Hay grew up in Scotland in a family of bookworms. She always wanted to be a writer and filled endless notebooks with stories and poems. She trained as a journalist in Edinburgh and went on to work in newspapers for the BBC, before packing it in to move to Wales, have a baby and write her first children’s book. Since then she’s had more than twenty books published including the Undead Pets series about zombie animals and Screaming Sands, a ghostly children's trilogy set at the seaside.







Daron Parton graduated from Central St Martins in 1989 with a degree in illustration. He was Highly Commended in the Australian & New Zealand Illustration Awards 2013 and has worked for a wide range of clients including GQ, Esquire, The New Statesman, Pearson and Scholastic.