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About Alex FrithAlice JamesJerome MartinLan Cook

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.Alex Frith (Author) Alex Frith has been writing Usborne books since 2005. His diverse output covers such titles as 'See inside Your Head' 'Stories of Thor' and 'Politics for Beginners'. He has spoken at multiple festivals about his book '100 Things to Know About Space'. Alex can be found in London.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!