Ruth Paul is a multi-award-winning children's author and illustrator. Her work includes Stomp, The King's Bubbles, Bad Dog Flash, the Mini Whinny series (with Stacy Gregg) and I am Jellyfish, which won the 2018 Best Picture Book award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Her books, which have sold around the world with translations in five languages, are distinguished by playful language, adorable illustrations, giggle-inducing humour and delightful characters. In 2019 Ruth was invited to attend the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival in Dubai and the Bookaroo Festival of Children's Literature in India. Back at home in New Zealand, Ruth lives and works in a straw-bale house at Makara Beach, near Wellington.