About the author Marie Munro is a former primary school teacher who has been writing professionally for nearly 40 years - as a journalist, desktop publisher, editor of community newspapers, learning designer for the construction industry and more recently, as the author/publisher of bilingual picture books She is passionate about getting children to engage with, and thoroughly enjoy, books, so has chosen to fill her retirement days turning the invisible Magic Story Book of her classroom years into visible storybooks for the enjoyment of children and the people who share books with them.