Catherine Barrworked at Greenpeace International for seven years as a wildlife and forestry campaigner and has a long-running interest in environmental issues. While working as an editor at the Natural History Museum, she researched and wrote two major summer exhibitions:Dinosaurs of the Gobi DesertandMyths and Monsters. Her previous books for Frances Lincoln areThe Story of Inventions and The Story of Life.She lives on a hill near Hay-on-Wye in Herefordshire with her partner and two daughters.