Mary risk is the pseudonym for the author Elizabeth Laird, an award-winning British writer of children’s fiction and travel, known for the large body of folktales which she compiled from regions of Ethiopia. The author uses the pseudonym for her TV and educational writing, including the TV adaptation of The Animals of Farthing Wood. Under the Mary Risk name, Elizabeth has also penned several stories for children learning English as a foreign language. Alex illustrated I Want My Banana in the I CAN READ series for b small publishing. Maja Konkolewska is a translator, interpreter and educator working between Polish and English. Among other things, she designs and delivers creative translation workshops. Maja lives in Brighton and Hove with her trilingual family and loves books, movies and road trips.

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