The Rock Factory: A Story About Rocks and Stones (Science Works) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jacqui Bailey has spent a lot of her adult life working with children's books. She has been an editor and publisher of everything from picture books to encyclopedias, but mostly enjoys finding out amazing bits of information and then writing about them. She is an award-winning author with more than 20 children's information books to her name, including A Cartoon History of the Earth series. Jacqui lives in London - and thinks it is the best city in the world.

Matthew Lilly attended art college before starting at Nassington Press and moving to Walker Books, where he worked for 17 years. After his time with Walker, Matt teamed up with Jacqui Bailey, editor and author, and formed ‘Two’s Company’. In 2002 they were short-listed for both the Aventis Science Junior Prize and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award for A Cartoon History of the Earth, published by A & C Black, and in 2011 for The Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize for What’s the Point of Being Green, published by Watts.

Over the last 20-odd years Matthew has designed and illustrated a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles for several publishers and organisations including Franklin Watts, Wayland, A & C Black, David & Charles, Mathew Price Limited, Smart Learning and the BBC. Matthew has also designed and illustrated marketing materials for a wide range of local businesses in Devon.