JAMIE OLIVER is a global phenomenon in food and campaigning. He has sold nearly 50 million books worldwide, is the top-selling non-fiction author in UK history and has achieved an estimated global TV audience reach of 67 million across 182 territories. Jamie started cooking at his parents' pub, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight. After leaving school, he began a career as a chef that took him to the River Café, where he was famously spotted by a television production company and
The Naked Chef was born. Jamie now lives in Essex with his wife Jools and their five children.
MÓNICA ARMIÑO is a Spanish freelance illustrator. She graduated in Fine Arts and is based in Madrid, with an extensive knowledge of both digital and traditional techniques. She is able to draw in many different styles and she loves to experiment with light, color and textures. She has always been interested in focusing her career on children's illustration and cartoons, and she has published several books with various publishers and agencies in Europe and the US. She also works in the animation industry as a character designer, background artist and color and texture artist for feature films and pre-school TV series, like the award-winning
Puffin Rock (Cartoon Saloon/Dog Ears/Penguin books) and the popular Spanish cartoon
Pocoyo (Zinkia Entertainment).
