Tracey Turner has written more than 80 books for children on subjects including exploding beetles, jungle survival, and the entire history of the Universe. Her publishers include Macmillan, Bloomsbury and Hachette. Tracey won the 2021 SLA information book award 8-12 category for How Many Mice Does it Take to Make an Elephant? Tracey is also an editor, and commissioned and edited the Horrible Histories series for many years. She lives in Bath, UK.