Daisy Hirst Daisy Hirst is the author-illustrator of the companion board books Monster Clothes and Monster Food. She is also the creator of The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head, Hilda and the Runaway Baby, Hamish Takes the Train, and I Like Trains, as well as three picture books about monster siblings Natalie and Alphonse. Daisy Hirst lives in Cambridge, England.