Sam grew up in Buckinghamshire, falling off various bicycles before reading books and making up his own stories about more competent heroes. After studying English at Cambridge University, he joined Usborne in 2013, and now writes titles ranging from fold-out solar systems to maze books full of swashbuckling pirates. Sometimes, Sam cycles to work.

Children will love learning to draw everything from an astronaut to an octopus, a fairy tale castle to a monkey in the jungle. There is plenty of room on each page to incorporate your own creations and the finished masterpiece can be torn out to display on fridges and walls.