Growing up on the Wirral and in Germany, Anna wrote plays about talking animals, and stories about naughty children, and drew on every available surface. After school, she did an Art Foundation course, then a degree in German Literature & Philosophy at Oxford University. In 1998 she found her perfect job at Usborne in London, writing about everything from curious penguins to trips to the Moon.

Easy-to-understand, perfectly pitched for pre-schoolers, brimming with the kind of questions that little ones love to ask, and making learning an exciting adventure, Peep Inside a Tree will have little ones branching out to make their own woodland discoveries.