Lucy Rowland Lucy Rowland grew up in Cheltenham and gained a degree in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Reading before becoming a children's speech and language therapist in South London where she now lives. Lucy has loved reading and listening to poetry from a young age and has turned her passion into writing picture book stories with quirky characters and irresistible rhythms – as seen in Jake Bakes a Monster Cake, Pirate Pete and His Smelly Feet and Little Red Reading Hood. From a young age, Lucy Rowland loved reading and listening to poetry. As a children's book author, Lucy likes to create stories with quirky characters, laugh-out-out moments and irresistible rhymes. @lucymayrowland