Suzy Tabone lives in Malta with her aspiring zoo-keeper son, Percy, and their menagerie of pets. When not parenting, writing, gardening or cleaning up after her four-legged charges, she ekesout an existence as an English teacher. Percy Davies, aged 11 at the time these illustrations were created, spends a great deal of his time either studying, drawing ortelling others about wildlife. He is absolutely devoted to his owneccentric brood of animals, and is rarely seen without a largeencyclopaedia in his ha