Pip Jones is a children's author, feature writer, columnist and editor based in the south west, and is most often found writing or herding children. She is the author of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize 2017 shortlisted Izzy Gizmo and its brilliant follow-up Izzy Gizmo and the Invention Convention. Her series Squishy McFluff won the Greenhouse Funny Prize in 2012.