Meet the author

Luna James.

Writer & illustrator · United Kingdom

Luna James: self-published author-illustrator whose gleefully silly Percy The Pooping Penguin tucks a real nature fact inside a boisterous gross-out read-aloud.

Luna James is a self-published children's author-illustrator behind a handful of gleefully silly read-aloud picture books, including The Secret Life of Leprechauns and Percy The Pooping Penguin. Percy leans hard into the giggles of the ick while tucking a genuine slice of science inside the silliness: Adelie penguins really do stain the Antarctic snow pink from their diet of krill, and clumsy, cheeky Percy is on a mission to explain exactly why. Bouncy, quick to read and pitched squarely at the age where the word poop is the funniest thing in the world, it makes a boisterous, giggle-inducing bedtime or classroom read-aloud. James's books are light, gross-out crowd-pleasers for young children aged three to seven who love animal facts served with a big helping of toilet humour.