A World of Plants

About Martin Jenkins

Martin Jenkins is a conservation biologist and author of many groundbreaking non-fiction books. He worked for ten years for World Conservation Monitoring Centre writing about a range of conservation issues and since 1990 he has worked freelance for organizations such as WWF and a number of UN bodies concerned with conservation and the environment. Martins jobs have varied greatly: Ive been an orchid-sleuth in Germany a timber detective in Kenya and an investigator of the chameleon trade in Madagascar. Martins childrens books include Emperors Egg winner of the Times Junior Information Book of the Year Award and Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back which was shortlisted for the same award. Martin lives in Cambridge.James Brown is an illustrator and printmaker living and working in London. Trained as a textile and surface print designer he worked in textiles for ten years. He then branched out into illustration and has worked with the V&A and Guardian.