Prabha Mallya is an award-winning illustrator and comics creator who works out of her studio on a secret island populated with cats and flightless birds. Maoo and the Moustaches is her other book with Tulika. Zai Whitaker grew up in a family of naturalists. She has written novels, stories and poems for children--including Andamans Boy, The Humongoose Family, and Kanna Panna. She lives and works at the Madras Crocodile Bank, near Chennai, which she helped "Snake Man" Rom Whitaker set up almost 40 years ago.