Simon James is the author and illustrator of many bestselling picture books, including Sally and the Limpet, Dear Greenpeace, The Wild Woods, The Birdwatchers; Little One Step and Leon and Bob, which was a Smarties Book Prize Silver Award Winner. He has also compiled and illustrated a collection of small poems, Days Like This. Simon says of his work, "I like to capture a large world and at the same time give the reader the sense of being drawn in to an intimate moment or place." Simon lives in Plymouth, Devon.