Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children s Book Award 2021 in the Best Book with Facts category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children s Science Books (twice).
His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.
Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children s Book Award 2021 in the Best Book with Facts category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children s Science Books (twice).
His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.
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