Meet the author

Nicola Davies.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1958

Nicola Davies: British zoologist-author behind A First Book of Nature, The Promise and Tiny Creatures — observational, scientifically rigorous natural-history picture books and middle-grade for ages 3–11.

Nicola Davies is a British author and zoologist born in 1958, best known for nature-and-conservation children's books spanning picture books, illustrated chapter books and middle-grade non-fiction, Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes, A First Book of Nature, The Promise (with Laura Carlin, Greenaway shortlisted), Lots: The Diversity of Life on Earth, King of the Sky. Davies's voice is observational, scientifically rigorous and emotionally warm, with strong skill at making natural history accessible to picture-book and chapter-book audiences. A core contemporary UK natural-history-for-children author.