Ship Shapes

Award-winning author Stella Blackstone has written many of Barefoot's best-selling titles, including the Bear series and the Cleo the Cat series. She has been writing for children for over twenty years. Stella lives in Somerset, UK.

After leaving school, Siobhan Bell traveled for many years and had a variety of jobs from making clothes and jewelry to fire breathing! She now works as a full-time textile artist, selling her artwork through galleries, exhibitions and private commissions. Siobhan creates her trademark bright colors using scraps of hand-dyed cotton sheets, which she imprints with patterns using a variety of objects such as combs, potatoes and pieces of Lego! Siobhan lives in her native Somerset, England, with her four-year-old son.