Jo Lodge is an illustrator and paper engineer and was greatly influenced by her artistic parents – her mother, Maureen Roffey, an illustrator, and her father Bernard Lodge, a graphic designer. Jo graduated with a fashion degree from Kingston University and worked for a knitwear company designing their main collection and consulting on projects for Next, Marks & Spencer and Saks Fifth Avenue.Jo's distinctive bright colours and appealing animal characters have been used across a range of children's books including the bestselling Baby's Very First Cloth Book: Faces and Farm for Campbell. She lives in West Sussex with her husband and two sons.

Jo Lodge is an illustrator and paper engineer and was greatly influenced by her artistic parents – her mother, Maureen Roffey, an illustrator, and her father Bernard Lodge, a graphic designer. Jo graduated with a fashion degree from Kingston University and worked for a knitwear company designing their main collection and consulting on projects for Next, Marks & Spencer and Saks Fifth Avenue.Jo's distinctive bright colours and appealing animal characters have been used across a range of children's books including the bestselling Baby's Very First Cloth Book: Faces and Farm for Campbell. She lives in West Sussex with her husband and two sons.