Clive Gifford is an award-winning author with over 150 books published for children and adults including Out Of This World, Wow Science and Discover The Extreme World. His books have garnered much praise and won Children's Choice, NAPPA Gold Star, TES Book of the Year and Smithsonian awards. Marianne Taylor is a writer and editor whose career has been steered from the start by her obsessive interest in the natural world. She has written books on subjects from mountain gorillas and nature photography, to science and wildlife in London. Steve Martin lives in the English Midlands and makes his living from a wide range of writing including children's non-fiction, business communication and developing e-learning materials.