DAISY BIRD is the pseudonym for Jacky Colliss Harvey, the New York Times bestselling author of Red: A History of the Redhead , My Life As A Redhead: A Journal , The Animal's Companion and Walking Pepys's London . She studied English at Cambridge University and art history at the Courtauld Institute. She has worked in museum publishing and is a commentator and reviewer who speaks on the arts and their relation to popular culture. She divides her time between London and New York. MARIANNA COPPO is an author/illustrator from Italy. She studied editorial illustration at MiMaster in Milan and now focuses on freelance illustration. Her debut picture book, Petra , received starred reviews from Kirkus , Publishers Weekly and Booklist , and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She is also the creator of Ray , Thingamabob , A Very Late Story, Such a Good Boy and, with author Daisy Bird, Whose Poo? .

Her most recent book is The Boy and the Mountain.