Maggie Bateson is a talented paper engineer with a skill for devising ever more intricate pop-ups. She lives and works from her home studio in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. Together with the illustrator Louise Comfort she has created eight successful fairy carousel books for Macmillan, including the recent MY FAIRY MAGIC SCHOOL (978-0-230-70909-6) MY FAIRY SHOWTIME (978-0-2300-1582-1) MY FAIRY BRIDESMAID CASTLE (978-1-4050-9031-5) and MY FAIRY FUNFAIR (978-0-230-01526-5).