Lucy Cousins is the multi-award-winning creator of Maisy. She also wrote and illustrated the Smarties Book Prize-winner Jazzy in the Jungle; Hooray for Fish! - which now appears in animation in Japan; and the bestselling New York Times Top 10 Children's Book Yummy; and Peek, Peek Peek which won the Book Trust Best Picture Book Award in 2014. Lucy lives in Petersfield, Hampshire.