Nicola Davies is a zoologist and writer whose many acclaimed books for children include Surprising Sharks, Gaia Warriors, and five companion titles to Deadly! “Living with animals that are cute and harmless is easy,” she says, “but we need to share our world with the creatures that can bite and sting, too.” Nicola Davies lives in Wales. Neal Layton has illustrated more than forty books for children, including the other fivebooks in this series. About illustrating Deadly!, he says, “It was really good fun drawing allthese dangerous animals, and now I’ll know what to do if I ever meet a shark who puts itsfin down and hunches its back at me.” He lives in Portsmouth, England.