100 Things to Know About Saving the Planet

About Alice JamesDarran StobbartEddie ReynoldsJerome MartinLan CookRose HallTom Mumbray

Jerome Martin (Author) Jerome Martin has written children's books about science history Shakespeare and food. Before joining Usborne in 2014 he spent a decade studying literature at Harvard Cambridge and the University of Iowa and several years behaving responsibly in a copywriting office. Now he spends his working hours researching delightful and amazing facts his evening hours parenting two children and the minutes in-between writing poetry.Alice James (Author) Alice James joined Usborne after working in primary schools for a while. She absolutely loves science and over the years has lived with chimps spent a month in the rainforest studied Biology at Oxford University and grown 200 carnivorous plants (not necessarily in that order). Whilst at Usborne Alice has worked on books on all kinds of science topics from space to energy to the periodic table.Rose Hall (Author) Rose grew up in Northumberland studied Physiology at Oxford and looked after orphaned orangutans for a bit. She worked in the charity sector for ten years writing about issues from renewable energy to the safety of workers in Bangladesh. For Usborne she's written books about engineering business computers and the environment.Tom Mumbray (Author) Tom studied History at university before joining Usborne in 2018. Since then he's worked on books about Planet Earth technology maths and inventions (and learned lots of amazing facts about everything from paleoburrows to fireworks along the way).Lan Cook (Author) Lan joined Usborne after working as a bookseller. She absolutely loves learning about anything and everything. She has lived in China attempted to create the perfect aquarium biotope studied Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University and can hit an archery target from 100 feet away. Lan has always loved collecting knowledge and as many weird facts as possible so working for Usborne really is a dream job!Darran Stobbart (Author) Darran spent a decade as children's bookseller in Durham. He studied crime scene and forensic science at university. It's handier than you'd expect. He collects useless facts and writes about lots of subjects - especially science. He is passionate about stories music and will talk about octopuses at great length.Eddie Reynolds (Author) Eddie joined Usborne Publishing in 2017. Before that he studied German and French at Cambridge University then moved to Berlin after a short while teaching Ancient History at a school in Guangzhou China. Now back in the UK he writes books about all sorts including computers maps and engineering.