CATE JAMES studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. She visits schools, libraries and festivals to talk and create drawings with children, and has taken part in the Association of Illustrators annual show, and an exhibition of five illustrators at the Scottish National Gallery. Cate is currently Illustrator in Residence at the Sick Kids hospital in Edinburgh, where she is working on a project with the children. This is the first book she has both written and illustrated, and it confirms her natural storytelling ability.