Claire Llewellyn's "First Book of Time" won the TES Junior Information Book Award in 1992. Since then, she has written over 50 children's books including "Little Bees: The Best Ears in the World", "Why should I Eat well?", "Why Should I Listen?" and "Max Fax: Big Cats: Big Cats".

With a high photographs to text ratio these are easy-access books for young children and as well as being good first reference books, we found them useful to read aloud at home to an information-hungry four-year-old. -- Cork Evening Echo 20030927 Visually alive and beautifully written. I particularly like the speculative nature of the author's thoughts on the future of space exploration ... would find a place on the classroom browsing table to extend children's learning and they are also helpful in introducing retrieval devices like contents pages and indexes. -- Books for Keeps 20031101

Claire Llewellyn is an award-winning and prolific author of many non-fiction books particularly for young children.