Frances Stickley is a the author of What will you dream of tonight? Love you Always and The Mouse's Apples. A trained children's literacy specialist and former primary school teacher, she grew up in Nottingham and Norwich, where she spent much of her time making up poems and dressing up her dog.
In 2017, Frances was the winner of the Bloomsbury and National literacy trust short story prize 2017. She lives with her family and a big-eared dog called Babbage, and when she is not writing, you’ll probably find her in a forest playing dragons with her daughters.