Ruskin Bond is the author of numerous novellas, short-story collections and non-fiction books, many of them classics. Among them are When I Was a Boy, Lone Fox Dancing, The Room on the Roof, A Flight of Pigeons and A Book of Simple Living. He has also co-edited with Jerry Pinto the anthology The Book of Crazy Mischief. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
Samrat Halder is an illustrator, animator and comic book artist. He loves painting, sculpture, cooking, reading, travelling, listening to music and sometimes trying to sing. He has worked as a freelance illustrator with a number of Indian and international publications for children’s book.