Rachel started her career as a writer very young, with her first poems published without her knowing! At school she became known as the Poetess and she still lives up to that name. Her own reading of The Childe of Hale (her first book) still gives the Maverick team goosebumps! (Click here to listen) Rachel lives in St.Helens with her husband and her little girl, Daisy. Author of: The Cautionary Tale of the Childe of Hale, I Wish I’d Been Born a Unicorn and Not Enough for Queen Fluff Catalina Echeverri is originally from Bogota, Colombia, and she speaks English, Spanish and Italian. She studied graphic design in Milan, Italy and completed an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Arts (ARU). She loves to draw all of the time, and takes her sketchbook everywhere with her. Although she delights in coming up with new stories for the characters in her sketchbooks she finds illustrating other people’s texts an enriching and rewarding experience. Illustrator of: A Scarf and a Half, A Box of Socks, A Knit and a Knot, Not Enough for Queen Fluff