ALIENOLOGY
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Dugald Steer (Author) Dugald Steer was born in 1965 and grew up in Surrey where his love of books and reading led him to study English Literature and Philosophy at Bristol. Several jobs later Dugald began working at Templar Publishing where he worked his way up to Senior Editor writing and editing many books in house. He has written more than 100 books for Templar and after going freelance to concentrate on writing he authored the first eight books in their hugely successful ''Ology series. Dugald lives near Barcelona in Spain with his wife Ana and his two children. Helen Ward (Illustrator) Helen Ward trained as an illustrator at Brighton School of Art under the direction of well-known children''s illustrators such as Raymond Briggs Justin Todd Chris McEwan and John Vernon Lord. In 1985 her final year at Brighton Helen was awarded the first Walker Prize for Children''s Illustration. Awards for Helen''s work include The National Art Library Awards 1998 and 2001 for The Hare and the Tortoise and her version of Kenneth Grahame''s The Wind in the Willows in the Templar Classic series and The National Art Library Award for The Tin Forest. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award in 2003 for The Cockerel and the Fox. This book also won the award in the children''s trade category at the British Book Design and Production Awards presented in November 2003. Helen Ward lives in Stroud Gloucestershire. Jonny Duddle (Illustrator) Jonny Duddle overheard the story of his first book The Pirate Cruncher while sailing on a square-rigger. Since then he has written even stranger tales including The Pirates of Scurvy Sands The Pirates Next Door Gigantosaurus and The King of Space. The Pirates Next Door won the Waterstones Prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Now in danger of becoming a landlubber Jonny lives in Wales with his wife Jane and their daughters Daisy and Rosie.