Gordon Snell Books & Biography

• Gordon Snell is a writer and broadcaster, and the author of more than forty books for children and adults, published in Ireland, England, Australia, Canada and the United States. He also writes song lyrics, musicals and opera librettos for the stage, and for BBC and RTE radio and television. He lives in Dalkey, County Dublin.
• Michael Emberley was born near Boston into a family of children’s book artists, and had his first book, Dinosaurs, published at nineteen. Michael has spent the last thirty-five years travelling, writing and illustrating award-winning children’s books while he figures out what he wants to do next. Michael lives in County Wicklow, Ireland.