Niki Daly is a children's author and illustrator with a high international reputation. He has received awards from the ALA and IBBY, and has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. He is married to fellow-author Jude Daly, and they live in South Africa. The first two books in the Lolo series are Here Comes Lolo and Hooray for Lolo!, published by Otter-Barry Books in 2019. He is a nominee for the Astrid Lindgren Award 2020.

"So right for children moving on to chapter books - the content, the length of each story and the pictures are just what's needed for children' making progress in decoding words and finding the story."