Caroline Crowe spent 10 years as a national newspaper journalist before swapping fact for fiction. She now spends her time indulging her love of silliness and writing picture books. When she's not thinking up words that rhyme with pants, she most enjoys reading stories with her three young sons and eating salt and vinegar crisps. Ella lives up north in Trondheim, Norway with her family (husband, three boys and a cat). She loves to drink good coffee while drawing cats, dogs, ballerinas, children (with and without tantrums) and all manner of children's book characters.