Ladybird Tales of Super Heroes: With an introduction by David Solomons (Ladybird Tales of. Treasuries)

Sufiya Ahmed was born in India and arrived in the UK as a baby. She lived in Bolton, Lancashire, before moving to London where she still lives. Sufiya has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons, but is now a full-time author. In 2010 Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children.For further information about Sufiya and her books, the BIBI Foundation, or to arrange an event, visit her online at www.bibipublishing.co.uk

Yvonne Battle-Felton was born in Pennsylvania and raised in New Jersey. She holds an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University where she is an associate Lecturer. A writer of fiction and creative non-fiction, her writing has been published in riverSedge, Assisi, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, Welter, Slices, and The Chesapeake Reader Literary Journal. Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), her first novel, Remembered, is the story of an emancipated slave haunted by both the past and the present as she struggles to lead her dying son home. She writes for both adults and children, and she was commended for her children's writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017).

Sarwat Chadda is a Londoner whose writing depicts the world from both East and West. He is published in both MG and YA, and has also written for Scholastic's multi-platform series.
Sarwat Chadda was raised on stories of Saladin, Richard the Lion-Heart and the Crusades, viewed from both sides, and started out writing role-playing game scenarios. He was a senior engineer in a past life, but now writes full time. His YA novels, DEVIL'S KISS and DARK GODDESS, were published in a number of countries and received stellar reviews. His MG novels in the ASH MISTRY AND THE SAVAGE FORTRESS trilogy were published in both the US and UK, and his fantasy trilogy - SHADOW MAGIC, DREAM MAGIC and BURNING MAGIC - publish with Disney-Hyperion under the pseudonym Joshua Khan.
Sarwat has also written for the 39 CLUES and SPIRIT ANIMALS multi-platform series, published by Scholastic, and he has written a number of action-packed texts for graphic-comic publisher Graphic India.
Sarwat lives in London with his family.

Maisie Chan is a Birmingham-born British writer who lives in Glasgow. She's working on her first novel but also writes flash fiction and micro-fiction.

Aviel graduated from Shenkar college of design in Tel-Aviv with a Bachelor's degree in graphic design. He currently works and lives in Tel-Aviv.

Since graduating in 2011, Aviel has illustrated more then a dozen children's books, which have been published in Israel. He won a Silver medal of the Israel Museum award for children's book illustration in 2012, for his first book.

He has also illustrated for magazines, advertisement and worked on character and background designs for various apps and animations.

His style is inspired by 50's illustration and he loves to use a bright and colorful palette.