CatherineBarrstudied ecology at Leeds University and trained as a journalist. She worked at Greenpeace International for seven years as a wildlife and forestry campaigner and has a long-running interest in environmental issues. While working as an editor at the Natural History Museum, she researched and wrote two major summer exhibitions. Her previous books includeHow Colour Works,The Story of Life,10 Reasons to Love... andRed Alert! Gmezstudied Fine Arts at the well-known University of Salamanca (Spain). A new talent, she has worked for several publishing houses in Europe, such as SM in Spain, Le Petit Bulles Edition in France, and Scholastics and Sterling in the USA. Her bookHedgehog and Rabbit. The Scary Windis a Junior Library Guild Selection.