Elizabeth Laird is the multi-award winning author of many successful picture books, young fiction and YA novels. Her travels across the world have influenced her style of writing and choice of topics. She is well-known for tackling a wide range of global issues through her work. After working in schools and museums Jenny Duke followed her dream: graduating from the Cambridge MA in children’s book illustration, participating in the Bologna illustrators exhibition in 2015 and 2019, and publishing her first picture book shortly afterwards.