Jess French

Jess French is a zoologist, naturalist, entomologist, author and vet. She is also the presenter of Minibeast Adventure with Jess on the CBeebies channel. She is a passionate conservationist on a mission to make all kids love their planet and fight to save it.Angela Keoghan is a former photographer turned illustrator from New Zealand. She spent much of her childhood surrounded by animals, drawing, reading, making huts and having adventures in the rural pastures of the Waikato. She graduated with a Bachelor of Media Arts with Honours in 2002 from WINTEC and since 2009 has been full time illustrating, working on projects ranging from editorial, product illustration, advertising and publishing. She loves texture and her whimsical illustration uses a mixture of media created on and off the computer. Angela lives in the countryside with her husband and business partner, Jayden, and their dog ‘Mr Woods’.