Barbara Taylor studied environmental sciences at the University of Southampton before becoming a science editor and writer at London's Natural History Museum. She is a multi-award-winning author of more than 120 children's inLayoution books and encyclopedias on natural history, science, and geography. Andrew Beckett’s passion for natural history shows through not only the subject matter of his images, but also in their sheer quality. His meticulous and painstaking method results in hair-by-hair detail and an incredibly lifelike finish.