Anne Rooney is a full-time author living in Cambridge, England, with a menagerie of animals and daughters. She sulks all winter and flourishes in the sunshine.Before becoming a writer, she studied and taught medieval English and French literature. She writes short books for short children, longer books for longer children, and books of any length for adults, without regard to the size of the reader.Her website is http://www.annerooney.co.uk. She blogs as Stroppy Author at http://stroppyauthor.blogspot.com and reviews picture books at www.writeaway.org. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and member of the Royal Literature Society, Society of Authors, Scattered Authors Society and National Union of Journalists.