Ben Lerwill is a multi-award-winning travel writer who has written for publications and websites including national newspapers,Rough Guides,National Geographic Traveller, and many more. His children's books includeWildlives (Nosy Crow, 2019),One World, Many Colours (words&pictures, 2020),Climate Rebels andWild Cities (both Puffin, 2020) andLet's Play Outside! (Welbeck Editions, 2022). He lives with his family in Oxford.Marina Ruiz studied Fine Arts in Madrid and worked as a freelance illustrator before deciding to move to the UK, where she graduated from Cambridge School of Art with a Distinction in an MA in Children's Book Illustration. Marina enjoys working with lyrical, more abstract narratives, combining images and text to express personal thoughts and emotions. She loves printmaking, and always tries to bring those magic textures and colour overlaps into her illustration work. Marina has also illustratedLet's Go Outside! for Welbeck Editions. Originally from Spain, Marina is now based in Cambridge, UK.
'Lerwill and Ruiz's ode to the Beautiful Game offers a portrait of the sport as one that unites ... The picture that emerges of soccer's universality sings as it inspires' * Publishers Weekly *