Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of children's books, including The colors of History (Quarto), winner of the Blue Peter Book Prize, Out of This World (Buster Books) which was shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and Cool Technology (Scholastic) which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. In the US, Clive has also won Smithsonian, Children's Choice, NAPPA and PBS awards. When he's not writing books, Clive has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company, and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. He lives in Manchester, UK.