Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls

Jan Dean lives near Manchester, but spends as much time as possible in East Devon. She enjoys lots of messy stuff - painting, gluing, digging holes in the garden and making bread. She likes earrings and often wears an enormous pair of giraffes (or penguins) when she visits schools to perform her poetry and write with classes. She is the author of The Penguin in Lost Property. Michaela Morgan left her hometown of Manchester for a misspent youth in various exotic locations and now divides her time between Brighton, France and Rutland.
As a teacher she worked with everyone from sticky infants to tattooed prisoners, but writes mostly for the former. Michaela is always a popular speaker at various school events, festivals and conferences. Her first picture book for Macmillan was Never Shake a Rattlesnake. Liz Brownlee has poems on all subjects in over seventy anthologies, including Reaching the Stars - Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls, written with Jan Dean and Michaela Morgan.