Martin Jenkins is a conservation biologist and author of many groundbreaking non-fiction books. He worked for ten years for World Conservation Monitoring Centre, writing about a range of conservation issues, and since 1990 he has worked freelance for organisations such as WWF and a number of UN bodies concerned with conservation and the environment. Martin's jobs have varied greatly: "I've been an orchid-sleuth in Germany, a timber detective in Kenya and an investigator of the chameleon trade in Madagascar." Martin's children's books include Emperor's Egg, winner of the Times Junior Information Book of the Year Award. Martin lives in Cambridge.
Lou Baker-Smith is an illustrator and designer whose work has appeared in magazines, greeting cards, on packaging and more. She has illustrated children's non-fiction for publishers including Quarto and Wellbeck. This is her first book for Walker. She lives in Bath.
