Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of non-fiction for young readers – in 1991, she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for Take One: Rubbish – and in 1992, she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then, Claire has written more than 100 children’s books on a wide range of subjects. Ask Dr K Fisher About Animals was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society prizes for Science Books Junior Prize. Thea Feldman is the author of dozens of books for young children, including non-fiction and fiction titles for Disney and Animal Planet and the Kingfisher Readers series. She writes on a wide range of subjects, with natural history as one of her main areas of interest. She also writes about the practice of teaching reading.