Laura Knowles has a background in children’s publishing and is the author of Once Upon a Jungle and It Starts with a Seed, which was awarded the 2017 Margaret Mallett Award for Children’s Non-fiction. Her love of natural history, words and art have drawn her to work on books about animals and nature. She likes tame animals nearly as much as wild ones, and lives in London, UK, with her two elderly goldfish and one very chatty cat.