About the Author: Nicola Davies

Nicola Davies is the author of more than 80 books for children and young people, including poetry, non-fiction, picture books and novels. Her work has been published in more than 10 languages and won awards in the UK, US, Europe and Asia. In addition to many books about the natural world, Nicola has written about disability, grief, human migration and children’s rights. Her picture books The King of the Sky (with Laura Carlin) and The Day War Came (with Rebecca Cobb) are endorsed by Amnesty UK; the latter sparked an online campaign, ‘3000 chairs’, in support of unaccompanied child refugees. Her recent YA novel The Song that Sings Us has been nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Award and her poetry collection Choose Love (with Petr Horáček) is helping to raise funds for the refugee charity of the same name and has been shortlisted for the CLiPPA Poetry Award 2023.