Thirty Trillion Cells

‘A gorgeous in-depth look at the human body’s building blocks, for readers of 7+’ * Guardian *

Isabel Thomas is an award-winning science and nature writer. She is the author of more than 150 books for children and a journalist for The Week Junior and Whizz Pop Bang magazines. Her critically acclimated picture book, Moth: An Evolution Story, illustrated by Daniel Egneus, was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2019 and was named book of the year by the Financial Times and Books for Keeps in the UK. In the US it was named a book of 2019 by The Horn Book and the National Science Teaching Association, and winner of the AAAS Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books. Isabel has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, the English 4-11 Picture Book Awards, and the Blue Peter Book Awards.

Dawn Cooper graduated from Bath School of Art & Design with a first-class degree in Graphic Communication in 2011, and she has rarely set down her pens and paper since! Her work includes non-fiction children’s books, book covers, maps and packaging. Dawn finds great inspiration from the natural world, traditional botanical drawings, animals, works of fiction and illustrated quotations.