Katie Daynes
Katie Daynes studied modern languages at the University of Cambridge before becoming a non-fiction copy-writer. She went on to specialise in young children's fiction and non-fiction, writing mostly for Usborne Publishing. Her prolific output includes re-tellings of traditional tales such as The Ant and the Grasshopper (Usborne, 2008) and The Enormous Turnip (Usborne, 2014), non-fiction titles such The Story of Diwali (Usborne, 2008) and titles in Usborne's Famous Lives series: Cleopatra (2004), Winston Churchill (2006). She wrote titles for Usborne's See Inside series, including See Inside Castles (2005), See Inside Ancient Rome (2006), See Inside Your Body (2006). She is the author of Usborne's Lift the Flap Question and Answers series, which includes the following titles in the Lift-the-Flap series: Questions and Answers about Long Ago, Animals, Our World, Science, Space, Body, Dinosaurs, Food, and Time.
Bio prepared by Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, sonya.nevin@roehampton.ac.uk
Records in database:
