I've always loved non-fiction. Me and my brother used to get a brilliant comic called Look and Learn when we were kids, packed with stories and articles about volcanoes, spacecraft, dinosaurs and how seeds grow. Then, in the last year of primary school, we had time each week to make our own information books. These A4 sheets, folded into booklets with card covers and hand-sewn spines, could be about ANYTHING and I made loads – about birds, flowers, trees, flags, and mountains and volcanoes, with labelled drawings, glued-in photographs and hand-written captions – maybe it was inevitable I'd graviatate towards children's non-fiction....