Wendy Cooling is an eminent figure in the Children’s Books World. As a freelance consultant she works with schools, publishers, libraries and the government on the promotion of literacy and love of books. Wendy was a teacher of English in London secondary schools for many years and left to head up the then Children’s Book Foundation where she initiated the Book Start project, which is now run successfully throughout the country. She is an intrepid traveller – camel fairs in India being one of her favourites ,but her home is in Barnet, Herts.