About the Author

Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of over 180 books for children and adults including This Is Not A Science Book (Ivy Press) , The Race To Space (QED) and Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing - winner of the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Clive's The Colours of History (QED) won the Blue Peter Best Book With Facts in 2019. His other books range from the serious (Refugees, Living On The Veg, Robots, Guardians of the Planet) and sporty (with books on the Olympics, football and rugby) to the fictional and downright silly (Pants Attack, Kelly's Smelly Wellies, The Huge Rude Duke) . Clive has travelled through 70 countries, formed and run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee (he was top scorer at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg back in the nineties) . His books have been shortlisted for the TES Information Book of the Year and the British Book Awards as well as winning Smithsonian, Children's Choice, NAPPA, Sainsburys and PBS awards. Sir Ranulph Fiennes called Clive's Ten People: Explorers, "An inspiration to all adventurers," whilst The Guardian declared that his Kingfisher Book Of Football "was worth a season's training." Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk