Here is a list of books that I have worked on (all as author unless otherwise stated) and that have been published or republished, organised by year of publication from 2018 to 2025; it’s still a work in progress but I’m about 80% there. I’ll do earlier years in due course; I’ve been writing for more than 23 years, so it may take a while! At the time of writing, most of the 2025 books are not published yet. Just a general note that may be of interest: some publishers prefer to just feature the name of an illustrator on the cover of a book, and you need to look inside the book to find the author’s name; if you didn’t know better you might assume the illustrator created and wrote the book. Sometimes, an author is not acknowledged as an author at all, but is listed as ‘editor’ or ‘consultant’. Thus, in some instances you won’t see my name on the cover of these books, or I’ll be identified as consultant or editor, when in truth I wrote the thing.

2025

Lift the Flap Encyclopaedia of Oceans: 200 Flaps to Explore

Lift the flaps to…
– Reveal how waves, currents and tides shape our world
– Explore a lift-the-flap coral reef
– Find out about the fascinating world of fish, from the great white shark to the weedy sea dragon
– Discover how life thrives in icy polar oceans
– Dive into the deepest, darkest waters on Earth
– See inside mega marine animals, including the mighty blue whale
– Follow epic migration journeys

With hundreds of facts and fascinating illustrations, this is the ultimate guide to oceans for young readers. Published by Magic Cat Publishing, this mammoth book was a joy to create, engaging every last brain cell as I planned all the topic spreads, sketched out how the many flaps would add to the visual impact of the subject and wrote the text.

Wild Your World: Bees

Explore the wonders of bees with this gorgeously illustrated book by renowned zoologist Camilla de la Bedoyere and award-winning illustrator Philip Giordano. The publisher is Design Eye, an imprint of Quarto Books.

This delightfully wild book covers everything a young nature lover could want to discover about bees. From learning how bees use their bodies to communicate with each other to understanding how a swarm is formed, this book is filled with fascinating facts about bees. With eye-catching illustrations and practical tips, Wild Your World Bees is the ideal guide to understanding and nurturing the wildlife that shares our world.

The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to bees. Learn all about bee basics, from the make-up of a bee’s anatomy to how honey is made. Then, discover the many different species of bees across the world, from orchid bees to mason bees.

Wild Your World: Birds

Explore the wonders of the wild around you with this gorgeously illustrated book of birds by renowned zoologist Camilla de la Bedoyere and award-winning illustrator Philip Giordano.

This delightfully wild book covers everything a young nature lover could want to discover about birds. From why flamingos turn pink to the mechanics of how birds fly, this book is filled with fascinating facts about our feathered friends. With eye-catching illustrations and practical tips, Wild Your World Birds is the ideal guide to understanding and nurturing the wildlife that shares our world. 

The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to birds. Learn all about bird basics, from their bodies to their behaviours. Then, explore the diverse habitats of birds around the world. Discover how birds adapt to their surroundings and explore the species that live in each environment. The publisher is Design Eye, an imprint of Quarto Books.

2024

My First Book of Space

Explore the wonders of the cosmos in this gorgeously illustrated first guide to space. Published by Templar Books, this is the third title in a series that includes My First Book of Nature and My First Book of Weather.

Lonely Planet: Bird Atlas

Take to the skies and meet the world’s most amazing birds. Navigate your way across the continents using detailed maps and discover birds of prey, birds of paradise, aquatic birds and more. Fun lift-the-flaps offer kids an immersive experience, revealing surprises, wow-factor facts and a fascinating glimpse into the lives of our feathered friends.

Stretch your wings for an epic journey around the globe and discover the many incredible birds that share our planet. Use the handy maps and diagrams to understand more about each bird’s natural habitat and track impressive migration routes for those that travel extraordinary distances. Learn about their spectacular courtship displays, mind-blowing nest-building techniques and the environmental changes that threaten their way of life. This is the ultimate book for children – and grown ups – who are wild about wildlife.

Doodle with Duddle

Templar Books, an imprint of Bonnier Books, published an ‘epic dinosaur-drawing adventure by Jonny Duddle, celebrating ’10 roar some years of Gigantosaurus’. I supplied the non-fiction text for this book.

Doodle with Duddle: How to Draw Dinosaurs features step-by-step guides on how to draw a range of dinosaurs – including characters from the original Gigantosaurus book – a draw-your-own-story section and the chance for readers to create their own made-up dinosaur, plus each page is packed with real dinosaur facts, trivia and prehistoric paraphernalia – think dinosaur meals, fascinating fossils and even dinosaur babies! With hilarious jokes throughout, this is the perfect book for resident dino buffs aged five plus – complete with a QR code on the back cover that links to Jonny Duddle’s YouTube draw-along videos. 

Wake up the Beast!

A dinosaur game for all the family with 80 activity cards and an 80 page A–Z dinosaur book. Perfect for children aged 4 and upwards to play with their family and friends, with funny, fun, and fascinating activities, questions, and facts for everyone.

Take it in turns to walk like a Tyrannosaurus rex, jump like a Velociraptor and guess how many teeth Nigersaurus had. Discover more about each dinosaur in the cute A–Z dinosaur book. Hours of fun, laughter, and finding out for everyone—especially dinosaur fans. Published by Weldon Owen, I wrote the text for this book and contributed to the text on the cards too.

Lonely Planet’s Atlas of Cats

Winner 2024 KZone/Total Girl Toy Awards – KZone: Kids Choice Award  

Get your fill of feline facts in this definitive guide to cats from around the world with amazing illustrations and claw-some profiles and features!

Large continent maps show the origin of 100 fascinating breeds including the fluff-tastic ragamuffin and hairless sphynx, plus get the lowdown on each cat’s unique skills and find fact-packed spreads about cats in ancient Egypt, courageous cats, cute kittens, and more. I was the consultant on this title – gazillions of facts, so gazillions of hours spent in the company of cats from all over the world, researching their history and characteristics.

Big Beautiful Bugs: Press out and make your own microscope

Put the natural world under the microscope and get up close to all kinds of creepy crawlies. This stunningly-illustrated book explores tiny animal life in huge detail. Meet more than 70 bugs, bees and butterflies from all over the world, and all drawn in fabulous detail. Look at them up close under the lens… then head outside to examine critters in your own back yard. Budding entomologists aged 5+ will learn about: – Insect anatomy – Lifecycles – Colonies – Habitats and homes – Attack and defence mechanisms – Camouflage and colour – How to be a friend to bugs.

Published by Magic Cat Publishing, I was the consultant for this title.

2023

Shine Your Magic Torch: Mysteries of the Ocean

Dive into our planet’s watery world. Dim the light and shine your magic torch to see mysterious creatures appear before your eyes…

Marine biologist William Jones and his niece Millie are about to embark on a thrilling journey. They will travel all over the world as they search for signs of life in the planet’s largest unexplored habitat. Use the magic torch included to take part in their adventure and discover weird and wonderful creatures in the deep sea such as…

– A dugong lurking in the seagrass in the Great Barrier Reef
– Super seaweed growing in the Tasman Sea
– Red footed boobies dancing on the Solomon Islands
– A prickly porcupine in a mangrove forest
– A semi transparent salp in the Antarctic sea ice
– A manta ray swimming in the Indian Ocean
– Ringed seals resting on the Arctic ice
– Hatchetfish shimmering in the Atlantic Ocean

This magnificent book was published by Magic Cat Publishing and beautifully illustrated by Alexandria Neonakis.

Size Wise

Published by Buster Books, this book explores the wonders of nature with awe-inspiring, realistic illustrations at life-size. Across each fascinating spread, beautiful artwork shows breathtakingly large or unbelievably small natural wonders, including eyes, wings, tentacles, sand, snowflakes, flowers and much more, all at real-life size, or zoomed in for extra interest. Marvel at the dinner-plate-sized eye of the colossal squid, the rainforest flowers you can sit inside, the fingernail-width dwarf blue butterfly and what sand really looks like when magnified. 

Paired with captivating information about these incredible things, size comparisons and extra fun facts, this book will have you absorbed with the littlest and largest things on our astonishing planet.

Curious Features of Extraordinary Creatures: The Amazing True Stories of the World’s Weirdest Animals

Get ready to be amazed by incredible creatures from all around the world in this colourful, fact-packed animal guide.

Curious Features of Extraordinary Creatures tells you all the essential facts about some of the most unique mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and insects that can be found on our planet. Published by Macmillan and illustrated by Fiona Fogg.

Bite-sized text breaks down information about the creature’s appearance, behaviour and habitat, while colourful and dynamic illustrations by Fiona Fogg bring the animal to life. Bold graphic-novel style panels tell the story of a key aspect of each animal’s daily life, such as the aye-aye foraging for its dinner and the peacock spider performing a dramatic dance to attract a mate

Animal Homes: Rainforest and Ocean

This innovative non-fiction board book series takes a key STEM topic for toddlers and gives it a fresh new life. Featuring bold and bright illustrations from Natasha Durley, the chunky, shaped pages allow little hands to investigate different animal homes. Ideal for fans of the Hello, World! series, Campbell’s Busy series and Usborne’s Peep Inside series. I was the consultant for these two titles.

First Things I Can Do: Saving our Planet

First Things I Can Do: Saving Our Planet introduces your young child aged 5+ to the importance of looking after our planet and how we can each play a vital role. Published by Miles Kelly Publishing.

• Bright, simple, clearly labelled illustrations on every spread
• Activity panels and charming characters encourage learning and interactivity
• Includes a giant Reduce, Reuse, Recycle wall poster

With simple text and fun illustrations, First Things I Can Do: Saving Our Planet explores everything that is wonderful about Earth, and gives your child hands-on activities to guide them to reduce, reuse and recycle. This delightful book emphasises how we can all work together to reduce the damage to our planet.

First Things I Can Do: Saving Our Planet covers the greenhouse effect, energy, fossil fuels, green energy, climate, water and oceans, habitats and ecosystems, farms and food, eating sustainably, pollution, materials, plastic, waste, carbon footprints, and hoe to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Big Words for Little Experts

Published by Miles Kelly, this is a series of topic-based books that have been designed to help young children develop their language skills. I was the consultant on a number of titles in the series.

6000 Awesome Facts

6000 Awesome Facts covers a wide spectrum of subjects including Sharks, Mammals, Human Body and Prehistoric Life – and each page provides knowledge, fascination and inspiration. Individually designed subject panels with bulleted facts are accompanied by detailed illustrations, diagrams and photographs, while ‘Did You Know?’ panels provide scattered chunks of extraordinary information. My task here was to update and check all facts for this large compendium, and highlight any artworks or photographs that needed updating or changing. Published by Miles Kelly Publishing.

2022

Hidden Habitats: Earth

Part of the Small Worlds series (see below), published by Big Picture Press.

This beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap book lets children explore small habitats in nature up close.

The smallest areas of the natural world can contain a diverse web of life. Peel back leaves on the forest floor, peer over a clifftop and into a desert canyon, travel to an oasis in the Sahara Desert, climb a towering Brazil nut tree in a rain forest, and visit four more land-based habitats. What creatures will you discover? 

In this richly illustrated lift-the-flap book, young nature enthusiasts can get up close and personal with the wonders found in eight very different terrestrial ecosystems. This books was planned, researched and written by me, and the illustrations are by Lara Hawthorne. Published by Big Picture Press.

There are Mammals Everywhere

Part of the There are… series, see below. The book was planned, researched and written by CAMILLA DE LA BEDOYERE and Britta Teckentrup provided the illustrations.

There are mammals everywhere! Some of them clamber through the canopy, others scuttle through the undergrowth, and some even travel underground. Young readers will learn where in the world all sorts of mammals can be found and all the weird and wonderful things about them that they never imagined were true. With an added search-and-find element, this is non-fiction with spark and personality from a much-loved illustrator for ages 7+.

First Rainforest Book

Children can set off on a thrilling rainforest expedition with the help of stunning contemporary artwork and simple, engaging text. Discover which animals swing through the treetops, what lurks in the river, and why rainforests are in danger. Extra fun facts are highlighted, and a practical activity on every spread encourages reader interaction. Also included is a rainforest layers wall poster that helps children learn about the four levels of a rainforest and what happens in each one.

2021

My First Book of Weather

A beautifully illustrated book to accompany My First Book of Nature, which was published by Templar in 2018. Currently available in hardback with illustrations by Cinyee Chiu.

Split into four clear sections on: What is Weather?, Changing Weather, World Weather and Extreme Weather, discover how storm clouds form, why we have seasons, how seaweed can tell us what the weather will be, why fish and frogs sometimes fall from the sky and much more. There’s a bird to spot in every scene for an added element of fun. 

Includes 4 tear-out wipe-clean spotting cards, ideal for using on a nature walk or in the garden to encourage a sense of adventure, and a glossary of weather words.

My First Book of Nature

Bright, engaging and fun, this is the perfect package of inspiration to spark a little one’s interest in the great outdoors. Split into four clear sections: Plants, Bugs, Birds and Animals, plus a glossary at the back, discover how seeds grow, why some bugs are stripy, how penguins live, why chameleons change colour and much more. Jane Newland’s charming illustrations are accompanied by carefully written text for young readers. There’s a ladybird to spot in every scene for an added element of fun.

Includes 4 tear-out wipe-clean spotting cards, ideal for using on a nature walk or even just in the garden and encouraging a sense of adventure.

Wow! Forests

The latest in the hugely popular Wow! series published by Kingfisher. See below for more in the series.

Series: Magic Magnifying Glass – Animal Homes and Dinosaurs

Published by QED Publishing these books take the reader through a journey of discovery, using their magic magnifying glass to peer deep into the mysterious lives of animal homes and dinosaurs.

Series: Easy reader

A new series of easy-to-read books for early learners published by QEB (Quarto imprint).

2020

My Big Book of Adventure

Five “brilliantly creative” stories whisk readers off on a series of adventures around the world, through time and even into outer space. Fascinating information and rhyming riddles provide clues and activities, and the big illustrated scenes are crammed with inventive details to spot. Each story has its own checklist of characters to look out for and a map where readers can chart their journey. This book is published by Miles Kelly and it’s a compilation of the Adventure books I’ve written in the past few years (see The Great T Rex Adventure, On the Trail of the Whale (shortlisted for the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards) and Where’s the Bear, below).

Big Builds: Planet Earth and Big Builds: Ocean

Part of a series produced by Tall Tree Books for Quarto. Each book comes with its own beautifully crafted creation. I think these were published in the US.

Come Closer if you Dare!

Animal Predators up close – a fun book with incredible photos published by Quarto Children’s Books. This is to be published in the US and although completed, I don’t have a copy of the front cover yet. But it will be scary I expect!

Series: Global Issues

Hazardous Habitats and Endangered Animals is part of a series that helps explain some of the current environmental issues that children are concerend with. This title explains how the natural world is changing and the impact this has on the future of our wildlife, and gives ideas for how the Greta Generation can help protect their world. Published by Carlton Welbeck.

A to Z of Ocean Life

Series: Pocket Edition 100 Facts

Updated and released in a new, smaller format, these books are bursting with 100 incredible facts, fabulous photos and artworks. Published by Miles Kelly Publishing.

The Great T Rex Adventure

The Great T rex Adventure is a “big, beautiful and brilliantly creative” story that takes children aged 5+ on an adventure through prehistoric time.

Curious Questions and Answers about Plants

“Quirkily illustrated characters and playful text reveal the amazing answers inside this fascinating book.” Find out which plants stink of rotting socks, how tall bamboo can grow in a day, and how plants defend themselves from attack. This is part of the successful Curious series, see 2019 books for more information.

Project Bugs

Project Bugs is an interactive, illustrated non-fiction book, ideal for curious learners aged 7+. Encouraging creativity, fun projects will help children investigate different types of bugs, how they live and how they survive. With endless activities, flaps to lift and an exciting fold-out centre page, children will enjoy discovering the secret life of bugs. 

Project Earth

Project Earth takes a hands-on approach to learning about planet Earth, in enormous depth, from the Earth’s inner core to its outer atmosphere. 

• 11 projects to try, including recreating the Big Bang, generating static electricity and creating tornadoes in a bottle
• Packed with flaps to lift and a centre fold-out page which creates an immersive learning experience

My First Dinosaur Book

I was the consultant for this book by Barbara Taylor, for Miles Kelly Publishing.

Series: In Focus Dinosaurs

These four books were created from a compendium of dinosaurs. Four key themes were identified to produce the books and the text was updated, revised and rewritten where necessary. Currently available in the UK in a library binding.

There are Animals Everywhere!

There are animals everywhere! Some of them live in jungles, some of them in the savannah, and some may be in your back garden… this series from Big Picture Press covers Bugs, Fish, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals. I was the consultant for the first two titles and have written the latter three; all are now available. The illustrator is Britta Teckentrup.

Small Worlds: Earth

Look at what happens under the leaf litter in a forest, find out what lives in a single desert oasis, examine the top of a Brazil nut tree in the Amazon and much more. 

What will you find when you explore these small worlds? Prepare to be surprised by the variety of life on each page of this gorgeous lift-the-flap book. Published by Big Picture Press and illustrated by Lara Hawthorne.

What’s Wrong in the Wild?

Detailed full spread scenes each feature five out-of-place or ‘wrong’ things to find. Lively text provides facts and clues as well as key information about the wrong… and the right things included in the scenes. Designed to challenge your children and push them to work things out for themselves, they’ll also be encouraged to think about where the ‘wrong’ things do belong. Published by QED Publishing, I was the consultant for this book which was written by Catherine Veitch and illustrated by Fermin Solis.

Undercover Animals

Make the chameleon change colour with the sparkly two-way sequins on the cover. Then see if you can spot all the real- life undercover animals hiding inside! This book of amazing camouflaged creatures shows off the animal kingdom’s sneakiest tricksters. Test yourself to see if you can find the hidden animal in each photograph, then turn the page to discover more about them

Series: Ladybird and BBC Earth Reader books

This is a series of reader books produced by Ladybird using BBC Earth images. The carefully levelled text covers various science topics, for a variety of reading levels. As an experienced literacy teacher who specialises in teaching reading (phonics and comprehension) this project was right up my street!

Wild about Fierce Creatures

“Bursting with information and stunning pictures, this fascinating book explores the wild world of killer creatures. Engaging text is presented in bitesize paragraphs, and feature panels provide cool facts, cartoons, quizzes and activities.” Meet the world’s largest meat-eating animal, find out how secretary birds kill snakes by stamping their feet, and discover which small, shy mammal has a deadly elbow. Steve Parker and Barbara Taylor also contributed.

Wild about Oceans

Take a journey through the worlds oceans and find out about the remarkable creatures that inhabit the deepest waters, why coral reefs teem with life, and the importance of our seashores. “This brilliant book is bursting with fantastic information, detailed illustrations and stunning photographs. Simple and engaging text is presented in bite-size paragraphs, while feature panels provide fun facts, cartoons, quizzes and activities.”

2019

Expandable Explorations: Wild World

Go inside five amazing animal habitats around the world in this giant pull-out guide. Study an animal environment, peer through die-cut windows to more animals inside, then slide the large format page extenders and get a whole new perspective on life in the wild. Habitats include: the Amazon rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef, a North American Forest, the Arctic and the African savanna. Each scene is brought to life with amusing illustrations that show in detail how animals live. Multi-layered geographical information on similar habitats around the world add to the wonderfully lively scenes.

How Curious are You?

Series: Curious Questions

This series was developed from an idea with Miles Kelly editors and it has grown into a great collection – Curious Questions and Answers about Saving the Planet is now on the United Nations’ Development Goals Book Club list! There are more in the series, written by other authors (not shown), and some of mine listed here were actually published in 2018.

Cutest Baby Animals Ever

Cute animal babies have been a big theme for a series of books I’ve been writing for Quarto for a number of years. Of all of them, I love Baby Animals has been the most successful and it has been borrowed from British libraries alone 18,000 times so far (as of 2022). There have also been cute babies, cute jungle babies, forest babies, enchanting cuties, farm babies, itsy-bitsy cuties, snow babies, snow pals, cute kittens, cute puppies, water babies, animal babies that love their mum, animal babies that love their dad, animals that love kisses and those that love a hug! Many of these are developed for the US market and foreign language market (sometimes for Scholastic) and as a consequence are unavailable in the UK. However, they are the books I get most queries about from readers, their parents and their grandparents, who are desperate to get hold of copies. Often, the child falls in love with one of these books after borrowing it from a library, and they are desperate to own their own copy. Who can blame them when the photos are so cute? I don’t have copies of many of these myself, and don’t have images for most of the covers, but here are a few….Picture researching for these books is one of my favourite pastimes. While Cutest Jungle Animals Ever was published this year (sorry, no image yet), the others span back about eight years I reckon.

The Book of Animal Superheroes

Discover real-life stories of animals who have achieved the most heroic or astounding feats, and tons of fascinating animal facts – from dogs, cats and rabbits to birds, whales and insects. Published by Buster Books.

A fascinating combination of true-life tales of heroic animals and information on incredible topics such as animal senses, intelligence, communication and the importance of animal conservation.

Included are the heart-warming stories of Mari the Japanese Shiba Inu who saved her puppies and human owner from the destruction of an earthquake, Digit the gorilla whose brave actions highlighted the importance of gorilla conversation worldwide, Lin Wang the war elephant who became a national hero and so many more.

A real highlight of this gorgeous book is the stunning artwork of David Dean, whose paintings bring drama and atmosphere to every scene, and a foreword by television presenter and veterinarian Jess French.

Series: Lifecycles

A series of books about lifecycles for younger readers. These are updated, revised editions of a series that first appeared some time ago and have been extremely popular. They are Amazon Bestsellers.

Biocreations Oceans and Biocreations Jungles

Oceans: Explore the world oceans and create your own model of the coral reef.

Jungles: Trek through the diverse jungles of the world, and spot the wondrous species that call these forests home. Discover the variety of each group, and learn about how humans are impacting them. Then get hands-on and create your very own free-form sculpture of a jungle tree. Includes 139 press-out model pieces.

Both these books were written and produced for Quarto in the US.

Get Set Go!

A series of interactive science activity books published as part of a much larger educational scheme by Miles Kelly Publishing for Key Stage One. I was the consultant for these four books, which were written by a science teacher, checking for accuracy and helping with reworking the text where required. Seasons and Weather, Plants, Changing Materials, Animal Life.

Series: Wow!

A lovely, colourful series from Kingfisher. We developed this series to present those ‘wow’ facts that thrill young readers, while packing in plenty of learning with lovely artworks by illustrator Steven Johnson. I wrote these four books and was the consultant for the fifth, Wow Dinosaurs, which was written by Jacqueline McCann.

Small Worlds: Water (consultant)

Small Worlds: Earth (author)

Explore watery habitats on a small scale. This first board book was written by Lily Murray and illustrated by Lara Hawthorne and I was commissioned as a consultant to go through the text and artworks to check for scientific accuracy. I was then commissioned to write the second book in the series: Small World: Earth which was also illustrated by Lily Murray. Published by Big Picture Press.

Fierce Creatures Series: Run Reptile and Swim Shark

Open this book and you’re presented with three different reptiles and this question: which reptile would you sit and watch, view from afar or which would make you run for your life? The choice is yours, but choose carefully. . . . This book is packed with fascinating facts about reptiles presented as a guessing game. Readers will learn about many different types of these scaly creatures while using their logic to decide which reptiles are harmless and which are best to avoid! Published by QED Publishing. These editions are the library format but the paperback format came with little reptile or shark toys. The latest in the series focuses on fierce creatures with terrible teeth, but it’s not been published yet.

Pop Inside Jungle Homes

A pop-up book of jungle habitats. I was the consultant/fact-checker for this book which is published by Templar Books.

Living Planet

“Living Planet is a perfect addition to any home or school library – it is packed with high impact imagery and information tailored to a Key Stage 2 reader.” Published by Carlton Welbeck.

Watch incredible videos that play on the page with the free augmented reality app – see a volcano erupt, watch the plants and animals of the rainforest, follow in the footsteps of a storm chaser, and see right to the Earth’s core in this unmissable exploration of the amazing world we live in. 

Explore nature in all its glory, from the formation of the Earth and prehistoric life to the varied habitats of our world today. Discover what our planet is made of, and how humans have made an impact on Earth’s changing climate. Look out for Living Ocean, out soon.