Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University, UK and Co-Director of the Centre for Literacy and Social Justice. She has served as President of the UKRA and UKLA, and as Board member of BookTrust, The Reading Agency and the Poetry Archive. Her research focuses on volitional reading and writing, creative pedagogies and teachers' literate identities (https://ourfp.org/).

Helen Hendry is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at The Open University, UK and Co-Director of the Centre for Literacy and Social Justice. Her recent research focuses on teacher professional development for reading, informal book talk in the early years, and reading and writing for pleasure.

Anna Harrison is a Senior English Lecturer in ITE at Roehampton University, UK. Her research interests are young children's engagement as readers and children's literature within education. Her current PhD research at Cambridge University is focused on a newer area within children's family literacy of siblings as independent peer to peer readers.