Marie Skilling has been on adventures miles away from home and on her doorstep. She grew up in South West London and has lived in Australia and Canada. She has visited Africa and abseiled off Table Mountain just like Miss Timbles does in The Adventures of Benjamin Frank. She loves skiing, hiking in the forest, and has visited over twenty countries. Marie's travels influence her writing because all her trips have helped her see things in new ways and feed her imagination. It was during one snowy trip to Vancouver, Canada to visit her parents that Benjamin Frank began. She went for a walk one breezy afternoon and nothing was as it seemed. It was exactly the ingredients she needed to inspire her to write the tale that she hopes you'll enjoy.