Debi Gliori is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the very popular Mr Bear series. She won the Children's Book Award picture book section, and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1997. Her backlist in Doubleday/Corgi includes Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep and The Very Small. Pure Dead Magic, which introduced the Strega-Borgias, was her first novel. It was followed by Pure Dead Wicked, Pure Dead Brilliant, Deep Trouble, Deep Water and Deep Fear.Debi lives in Scotland, near Edinburgh.

"A funny, charming, delightful book about what happens when you have to move to a new town, start a new school AND cope with having a baby sister who is a witch!" Junior Education Plus "Debi Gliori cleverly dramatises sibling rivalry in both the home and school situation by bringing touches of humour to the daily mishaps" The School Librarian "The combination of quirky humour, sibling rivalry and real-life problems would have had me captivated from start to finish" Waterstones Books Quarterly "Enjoyable, comical series full of interesting characters" Primary Times

Debi Gliori is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the very popular Mr Bear series. She won the Children's Book Award picture book section, and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1997. Her backlist in Doubleday/Corgi includes Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep and The Very Small. Pure Dead Magic, which introduced the Strega-Borgias, was her first novel. It was followed by Pure Dead Wicked, Pure Dead Brilliant, Deep Trouble, Deep Water and Deep Fear.Debi lives in Scotland, near Edinburgh.

"A funny, charming, delightful book about what happens when you have to move to a new town, start a new school AND cope with having a baby sister who is a witch!" Junior Education Plus "Debi Gliori cleverly dramatises sibling rivalry in both the home and school situation by bringing touches of humour to the daily mishaps" The School Librarian "The combination of quirky humour, sibling rivalry and real-life problems would have had me captivated from start to finish" Waterstones Books Quarterly "Enjoyable, comical series full of interesting characters" Primary Times